

After Neurath is an event that seems to grow as spontaneously as the urban development envisaged by Neurath. For two years now – one year longer than planned – Stroom has been programming activities about this idealist. I visited the most recent exhi…
On September 29-30 the IIT (Illinois Institute of Technology) hosted a two-day conference devoted to innovation in waterfront and brownfield development, and to associated architecture, design and sustainable policy development. The conference subtit…
Istanbul played host to the 22nd UIA Congress from July 3 to 7. (UIA stands for Union Internationale des Architectes, a NGO that represents architects throughout the world through national architectural associations ) Under the title 'Cities: Grand B…
»We thought it would be exciting to bring another mind into what we do, particularly the mind of someone who is brilliant at drawing different media and different ideas together,« tells James Truman, the editorial director of Condé Nast the New …
All five City-Scrapers had half an hour to present their vision for the plan area, which was followed by a tough third degree interrogation by the Inspector Columbo of building, Gerrit Middelkoop. The aim: to realise something akin to a world exposit…
The feelings aroused by the project of the House of Music can perhaps be put together under one category: they are excessive. The City Hall shows excessive pride, the »intellectual elite« shows excessive excitement, the »progressive« people show exce…