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May 22, 2008
  • Call for liberation lacks motivation
    On April 4, to mark the publication of Volume #14 – theme: 'Unsolicited Architecture' – the NAi organised a discussion about 'unsolicited architecture'. During the evening an emphatic moral appeal was made to architects.
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    Precisely at a time when, according to the speakers, architecture is both successful and powerless, it offers no answers to important social questions. To turn the tide, architects were encouraged to liberate themselves from the straitjacket of tradi…
June 23, 2005
  • Archiprix International 2005 diary
    In March this year, the nominees of the Hunter Douglas awards were announced; out of the 186 graduation projects submitted, the jury of the Archiprix International selected eighteen. The closing activities are held in Glasgow (Scotland) from 18th June till the 24th. ArchiNed is embedded and will give regular updates.
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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…
June 2, 2005
  • Thin Line between being Radical and Naive
    Take one of the assigned plots in Antwerp, Belgium and create a design for the headquarters of the Flemish nationalist political party Vlaams Belang. Or draw a concept for it’s rather extreme Islamic opponent AEL (Arabic European League). How should architects operate in such political, ethnic or religious matters? Is there a role for them at all? Is architecture ‘neutral’ and only about aesthetics or is it acceptable that spaces and buildings propagate implicit or explicit messages? If so, to what extend? Maybe architects even can assist in bridging the gap between different ethnic and socio-political groups?
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    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…
March 23, 2005
  • Nominations Archiprix International 2005
    The nominations were selected out of a total of 186 submitted projects. These projects were selected by 186 schools for architecture, urban design and/or landscape architecture from 67 countries as their best graduation project of the last two years.
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    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…
December 1, 2003
  • Sun Shines on Zonnestraal Again
    The restoration of the former Zonnestraal aftercare colony is an ongoing project. Work on a section of the complex was recently completed, and Jeroen Mensink went to Hilversum to take a look.
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    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…
October 1, 2002
  • Almost Nothing
    This summer Dirk Jan Postel (Kraayvanger-Urbis) won the Benedictus Award for a small pavilion with a roof supported entirely by glass.
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    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…
July 3, 2000
  • The Politics of Restoration
    On Sunday May 14 the Balie in Amsterdam held a conference about the master plan for the village of Lifta near Jerusalem. The title of the conference was Reconstruction of Memory. Micha de Haas reports.
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    '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…
February 5, 2000
  • Rotterdam 2007 City of Architecture Opens
    Since January 1, 2007, the Erasmus Bridge has been illuminated by purple floodlights to mark the start of the Year of Architecture in Rotterdam. On Wednesday 17 January Mayor Ivo Opstelten presented the programme. What can we expect from and in Rotterdam this year?
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    ‘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…
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