brickwork

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 Me­di­ter­ra­nea…

When the smelly and un­he­althy mi­ning in­dus­try disap­peared from the Ruhr­ge­biet in the 1980s, the re­gion was left to deal with hea­vily pol­lu­ted land and high un­em­ploy­ment. The In­ter­na­tio­nale Bau­au­stel­ling (IBA) Em­scher Park, whic…

In 2001 KCAP was in­vi­ted to take part in a com­pe­ti­tion to de­sign a sa­tel­lite town for Shang­hai. The brief ex­pli­citly cal­led for a 'Dutch' de­sign. In the pe­ri­o­di­cal Ar­chis (issue 4, 2002), Shiuan-Wen Chu and Ruurd Gie­tema of KCAP en…