








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…

In Brazil there is a fairly sizeable gap between the overwhelming Modernist tradition and the lion’s share of contemporary architectural production. On the one hand, most architects still design in the slipstream of the two Prit…

Web 2.0 seems to have permeated – admittedly a little slowly – to neighbourhood management and urban development. Amsterdam housing associations recently launched the Buurtleven website (…

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…

Restoration and justice
FAST opposes these plans. The conference in the Balie could signal the start of the creation of an alternative plan. The houses in Lifta should be protected by UNESCO as monuments of the ordinar…

Urbanisation, water retention capacity, and agricultural changes are all putting pressure on the ancient Dutch landscape of polders. Is the landscape architecture of the polders so interesting that it merits preservation? …