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Put simply, some critics propagate a preference for modern-looking mosques without embellishments; cupolas and minarets are deemed superfluous because they are out of sync with the climate or technology of their new surroundings. The visibility of su…
Gas pipe You can’t be clear enough when making a political statement at a circus like the biennale, as the tiny country of Estonia understands all too well. In response to controversial plans by Gazprom for a pipeline between Russia and Germany, cura…
In this article, I try to take seriously Jencks’s remark that culture should find an iconographic language to connect us to the universe. Jencks’s lectures, answers and gardens seem to resemble the cosmos when it comes to beginnings, centres and ends…
Brazil itself is present everywhere at the Biennale with a posse of architects around the Pritzker Prize winners Niemeyer and da Rocha. Europe is poorly represented. Other parts of the world are largely absent, apart from South Africa, which presents…
Prof. Ir. Kees Christiaanse (1953) studied Architecture at the Delft University of Technology. Between 1980 and 1989, Christiaanse worked for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, becoming a partner in 1983. In 1989, he started his o…
Cincinnati Art Museum Announces Short List of ArchitectsThe Board of the Cincinnati Art Museum announced the short list of architecture firms selected as candidates to work with the Museum on the development of a new design and on the reconfiguration…
‘André was born in 1968, I in 1971 – that’s why.’ This is prize-winner Oliver Thill’s laconic reply to the suggestion that statutory reasons alone meant that the Maaskant Prize was awarded to him personally – winners must be aged 35 years or younger …
The tour, which lasts two years, started in Austria in 2004 with the presentation of eleven architecture firms and will finish with 99 participating offices. The Netherlands is the fifth country on the tour itinerary. The name given to the Dutch pres…
The response grows every edition. With participants from 67 different countries from all continents the event displays a unique insight of trends in design and ideas about education.The jury (Ian Gilzean, Hitoshi Abe, Zvi Efrat, Gilles Saucier, Bridg…
An important event in the project is an international competition to generate ideas for tackling the problems in the former GDR. Some cities in eastern Germany are starting to shrink as a result of migration to regions in the west of the country that…
Alex van de Beld (Onix)Thursday evening, October 21 After arrival in Rotterdam and checking into the schooners (boats) where we would spend the next three days, the young European architects got talking to one another straight away. The beer and wine…
The first architect mentioned by name in the history books - as we learn in architecture classes - is Daedalus. He it was who designed the labyrinth for King Minos in Crete (1700-1400 BC). Yet there is another candidate: Bezalel Ben Uri. He designed …
Set back from the quayside behind a tree, the building looks as though it's trying to efface itself. At first glance it looks like a simple cube of glass and metal framed by an L-shaped perimeter wall built almost entirely of aluminium sheet. Is that…