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Among the activities taking place are the workshops organised by The Lighthouse, Scotland's centre for architecture, design and the city and Archiprix International. All the participant of the Archiprix Internation 2005 edition were invited to partic…
These and other questions were at stake at the international design seminar INDESEM, organised by the 'bouwkunde' student association Stylos annually, sometimes every two years. Eighty students took part, half of them Dutch and half of them from abro…
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…
The complex designed by Duiker in the woods near Hilversum is being restored in phases. Major repairs started in 1995 with the restoration of the service block by students from the Delft University of Technology, and work on the main block was comple…
A minor theme that persistently runs through modern architecture is the quest for (almost) nothing, for the purest possible architecture whose form is determined by the very absence of all that is superfluous. The most striking illustration is the de…
'A friend of my mother used to live in this house. Hanging from the windowsills of her lovely house were the most beautiful flowerpots. As children we often secretly tried to pick the flowers, but she always saw us and said, »Carry these bags upstair…
‘This will be a fantastic year! Architecture will be the theme for 2007. Right from the start of the twentieth century Rotterdam has been internationally renowned for its progressive architecture. Innovative structures determine the face of th…