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For more than fif­teen years Maike van Sti­phout and her of­fice DS land­sch­aps­ar­chi­tec­ten have been working on a wide range of land­scape com­mis­si­ons. Her port­fo­lio com­pri­ses all sca­les in both urban and rural areas. She has worked on s…

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 Ru…

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, ther…

The ar­chi­tec­tu­ral cont­ri­bu­tion at this year’s fur­ni­ture fair IMM Co­lo­gne was de­li­vered by UN­Stu­dio ar­chi­tect Ben van Ber­kel, who ge­ne­ra­ted an urban mas­ter­plan for all three storeys of hall 11, as well as „The World’s Lon­gest T…

The tur­nout for both days was so­mew­hat disap­poin­ting. Were ar­chi­tects too busy working? Or were they en­joy­ing a long Pen­te­cost weekend? The room has only half fil­led, mainly with spea­kers, most of them ar­chi­tects at­ta­ched to schools …

Hertzberger is re­now­ned for the way he shaped, and con­ti­nues to shape, a new and less tra­di­tio­nal sys­tem of edu­ca­tion that has evol­ved since the 1970s thanks to the in­flu­ence of Maria Montes­sori and others. His schools do not em­pha­sis…

Tuesday Oc­to­ber 17‘Noodles or Ma­gnum?’ What a choice I think half sleepily as I hear the ste­war­dess in the dis­tance. Slur­ping my nood­les, I’m im­pres­sed by the see­mingly end­less cin­na­mon co­lou­red Gobi De­sert down …

How can you be en­ga­ged in a po­le­mic about so­me­thing that doesn’t even exist? That de­pres­sing thought hit me du­ring the ‘Projective Landscape’ de­bate sta­ged by Sty­los. The aim was to pin­point the la­test de­ve­lop­men…

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 strikingly …

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. T…

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 books­to­res is…

Felix Claus (Claus en Kaan Ar­chi­tec­ten, Ams­ter­dam) shared his doubts can­didly. When is a buil­ding good? Are you even doing it all right? Does it fit into the logic of the project? To him, doubt means ha­ving to choose, for there are temp­t­ing…

Everything that Her­zog & de Meu­ron do is ex­pe­ri­men­tal. In Oc­to­ber 2002 the Ca­na­dian Centre for Ar­chi­tec­ture in Mon­treal opened an ex­hi­bi­tion cal­led Her­zog & de Meu­ron: Ar­cheo­logy of the Mind. The con­cept de­vi­sed by cu…