BUILDING TYPE

Es­pe­cially among the youn­ger of­fices it was evi­dent that am­bi­ti­ons have cle­arly chan­ged. Or per­haps it is more ac­cu­rate to speak of a new men­ta­lity. These of­fices seem less con­cer­ned with the spec­ta­cu­lar or new ef­fects of the…

Sound has crop­ped up as a theme on many ar­chi­tec­ture agen­das re­cently. Over the past months the Arcam ar­chi­tec­ture centre in Ams­ter­dam has hosted an ex­hi­bi­tion about sound, and the Ams­ter­dam Aca­demy of Ar­chi­tec­ture or­ga­nised …

That Mels Crouwel – son of a hard­core func­tion­al­ist and graphic de­signer from Am­s­ter­dam – and Jan Ben­them – son of an aero­nau­ti­cal en­gi­neer from the No­or­doost­polder – would start an of­fice to­gether seems so nat­ural in hind­sigh…

Two causes can be pointed to for the emer­gence of high-voltage parks. The most im­por­tant rea­son is that cities are ex­pand­ing be­yond the high-voltage routes that were orig­i­nally planned in coun­try­side areas. Since the 1960s these routes …

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 sur­round­ing…

On Wednes­day the 14^th of Jan­u­ary the De­tail Prize was awarded in seven dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories dur­ing the De­tail Gala at the Mu­nich House of Artists. The main prize was won by FAM ar­chi…

While the lec­ture that Ale­jan­dro Zaera Polo held in April 2008 es­sen­tially sig­nalled the start of his ex­am­i­na­tion of the re­la­tion be­tween build­ing vol­ume and pol­i­tics, he is now work­ing on a gen­eral the­ory about The En­ve­lope.…

The first pub­lic gath­er­ing of the In­ter­na­tional New Town In­sti­tute took place on Tues­day evening May 27 at the Kun­stlinie art cen­tre in Almere, or­gan­ised in con­junc­tion with Casla ar­chi­tec­ture cen­tre. The aim of the In­ter­na­ti…