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The work of 51N4E raises questions. Architectural theoreticians are racking their brains about whether their work is anecdotal or singular.* It would deny all history and refuse to adopt any position. This confusion in the r…

Although it’s nothing out of the ordinary today, the decision of the two young landscape architects Riek Bakker and Ank Bleeker to open their own office wasn’t such an obvious thing to do back in 1977. At that time, you could count th…
Untill 23 December 2010, the Gagosian Gallery in Paris exhibits Jean Prouvé’s prefabricated architectural designs. The exhibition will inaugurate the new project space on the second floor of the gallery.

Before leaving for Afghanistan, Feenstra worked as an architect at the offices of, among others, OMA and Will Asop. In 2003 he established his studio, AFIR Architects, with offices in Kabul and Khulm in the north. He teaches arc…


In a culture such as ours, where even acting normally can be considered odd, the Zaanse Hotel is an exception. The only previous convincing example of such a postmodern collage of local motifs in this country was the Circus The…

Ten years ago a cousin of mine lived there, a Dutch architect. She had made friends with the housekeeper, and through him she acquired an apartment in the complex. It was a two-room flat, two bays side by side consisting of a living room,…

A new spring, a new site. It may come as a shock to regular readers that the ‘old-school’ black homepage – the hallmark of ArchiNed for over twelve years – has been abandoned to make way for an open and transparent design. A pity maybe, b…

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.…

Flagrant Délit
Amongst all the young, experimental, activist, ‘out there’ and ‘beyond’ offices in the Italian pavilion in the Giardini (which included many Dutch contributors), a number of old masters have been inc…

After studying at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague from 1956 to 1961, Peter Struycken (1939) painted in a figurative style. He was fascinated by the differences and similarities in visual reality. A row of trees interested …