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March 3, 2010
  • The Joy of Making
    Benthem Crouwel Architekten is thirty years old. For the founders of one of the most consistent and productive offices in the Netherlands, this was the pretext for the publication of BCAD; a bulky cross section, compiled with obvious pleasure, of projects from the period 1979-2009, interspersed with observations from colleagues, photographers, residents and friends.
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    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…

June 15, 2009
  • Brazil, the latest generation
    FGMF, Frentes, Beatriz Meyer, Yuri Vital, Rodrigo Cerviño Lopez, Metro arquitetura+Juliano Dubeux, and Lucas Kanyó belong to the latest generation of Brazilian architects – a generation that keeps quality in mind as it responds in its own way to the challenges of Brazilian reality.
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    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…

March 3, 2009
  • Planning 2.0 Made in Friesland
    A self-proclaimed revolutionary project is taking shape in Opeinde, a village in Friesland, of all places. A new neighbourhood is being planned by an online community through the Wijbouweneenwijk (Dutch for ‘we’re building a neighbourhood’) website. Does the Internet herald a new era for urban and town planning?
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    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 (…

July 21, 2008
  • Merchant mentality in The Promised Land
    Where do you start when you're commissioned to design a new city in Asia or Russia? How do you deal with cultural differences, regulations and language? These questions formed the starting point for an evening programme organised by the International New Town Institute to examine urban development in Asia.
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    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…

July 3, 2006
  • 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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    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…

June 8, 2005
  • Ode to the polder
    The exhibition Polders – The Scene of Land and Water is on show at the NAi as part of the second International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. Historical prints, models and plans of fifteen polders provide visitors with an overview of the past, present and future of the polder. Five themes – Aesthetics, Urbanisation, New Nature, The Big Challenge and Watershed – show different ways forward. Onwards with the polder!
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    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? …

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