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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…

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. November 25 he gave anot…

A visit to Le Medi made me ask myself the following question. What was the assignment that Woonbron Maasoevers housing association set for the architect to achieve this result? Or was it: Make a housing complex in a Mediterranean style that is more i…

On Monday, November 3rd at 7 pm, Kengo Kuma, who established the Japanese architectural firm Kengo Kuma …

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 International New Town Institute i…

A new gallery, the Artfarm, was opened on June 28th, 2008 in the Town of Clinton in the State of New York. The design for the gallery and storage came from the Swiss architects HHF and was created together with the artist Ai Weiwei. The Artfarm Galle…

The Iberê Camargo Foundation will be the first building by the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza in Brazil, it is intended that the space should not only function as a place for the permanent exhibition of the work of Iberê Camargo, but also as a real…

Tilburg is another town with ambitious plans to present itself as a place of culture, and so it asked Körmeling to make a work of art. As an ode to the terrace house with through living room, the Eindhoven architect came up with a version that rides …

Ofis Architekti is an architectural office from Ljubljana, who finished a series of interesting projects in their country during the last years. Tetris Apartments was a social apartment-project that draws its name from the popular game. Others includ…

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…

Architecture is not only a profession but also a window on the world, and it can be deployed as an instrument to effect social change. It’s a message you’ve been spreading for years in lectures, though activities such as the RSVP events…

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 emphasise learning from …

The various ways in which ‘time’ manifests itself in architecture was an important theme in modernism. After all, modernity was generally seen as an era marked by speed, technical innovations and continuous change. Architecture is often…

June 30 The two-day ‘Forum of Results Europan 8’ was held in the Energy House in Dordrecht, a perfectly inspiring meeting place for young and ambitious architects from Europe. Having recovered from the news of their victory – the results had been ann…

These are relevant questions that even the curators of the exhibition Newer Orleans - A Shared Space asked themselves when Reed Kroloff, dean of the architecture faculty at Tulane University in New Orleans, asked the NAi to help create future scenari…