It’s a fa­mi­liar fee­ling: that af­fi­nity you so­me­ti­mes de­ve­lop for a coun­try other than the Nether­lands. Such af­fi­nity usually ari­ses while you’re en­joy­ing a sunny ho­li­day a couple of days’ drive from home. You au­to­ma­ti­cally s…

The Ar­chi­tec­tu­ral As­so­cia­tion (AA) is si­mul­ta­neously uni­que and snob­bish. This edu­ca­tio­nal in­sti­tute of­fers avant-garde ar­chi­tec­ture in­side the strait­ja­cket of an English gentleman’s club. This can be ex­plai­ned by its ex­…

In the de­bate that fol­lowed Colomina’s lec­ture the ed­i­tors, past and present, seemed di­vided on the ques­tion of where to go from here. The orig­i­nal mo­ti­va­tion that prompted the launch of Oase 25 years ago is less ur­gent today. …

Such ques­tions were ex­haus­tively dis­cussed by some fifty na­tional and in­ter­na­tional guests through a num­ber of ‘discussion media’ (round table talks, speed dates, keynote lec­tures and a work­shop). But apart from all the talk­ing, there …

De­spite the high de­gree of pre­dictabil­ity in terms of form and con­tents – in it­self an im­por­tant fea­ture and the rea­son why this pub­li­ca­tion has been the best-selling ar­chi­tec­ture book in the Nether­lands for more than 25 years – i…

Ole Bouman (1960) has been editor-in-chief of Archis/Volume since 1996. Under his lead­er­ship the tone and na­ture of the mag­a­zine has changed sig­nif­i­cantly. It has trans­formed from a bilin­gual trade jour­nal on ar­chi­tec­ture into an Eng…

The con­trived op­ti­mistic mood makes one im­me­di­ately think of the pro­pa­ganda of the ‘projective’ and the ‘post-theoretical’, as ex­pressed by Bob Somol and Michael Speaks. Sty­los re­cently or­gan­ised the Pro­jec­tive Land­scape con­gress …

Rid­ing the waves of suc­cess in Dutch De­sign, var­i­ous Dutch pub­lish­ers have launched new ar­chi­tec­ture mag­a­zines pri­mar­ily aimed at in­ter­na­tional read­ers over the past year. The lat­est to join A10 and Vol­ume in the …

Ask 10 crit­ics, ar­chi­tects and cu­ra­tors to each choose 10 ar­chi­tects. Pro­claim that they form '100 of the world's most ex­cep­tional emerg­ing architects'. Pub­lish it com­plete with in­tro­duc­tions and ac­knowl­edge­ments in a strik­ingl…

The start­ing points em­ployed by the ed­i­tors high­light both the qual­i­ties and the prob­lems with the Year­book. The main idea put for­ward in the Year­book this year is that the so­cial con­text is of lesser im­por­tance than the ar­chi­tec­…

'We thought it would be ex­cit­ing to bring an­other mind into what we do, par­tic­u­larly the mind of some­one who is bril­liant at draw­ing dif­fer­ent media and dif­fer­ent ideas to­gether,' tells James Tru­man, the ed­i­to­r­ial di­rec­tor of …