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Leafing through the yearbook, which boasts an entirely new layout, you immediately notice the large number of landscape plans. Included are not only large-scale projects such as the Drentse Aa and the Zuid-Limburg Heuvelland hill landscape but also c…

Betsky’s presentation was lively and persuasive. His story started with a phone call from Mister Baratta. 'I’ve a problem. Can you help?,' Baratta asked. 'Maybe, but who are you?,' answered Betsky. Baratta turned out to be director of the Biennale di…

The Colegio de Arquitectos of Ecuador invites to every architectural design professionals of the world to participate in the worldwide Competition of Social Habitat and Development in the present edition of XVI Quito Pan-American Architecture Biennal…

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…

The architectural contribution at this year’s furniture fair IMM Cologne was delivered by UNStudio architect Ben van Berkel, who generated an urban masterplan for all three storeys of hall 11, as well as „The World’s Longest Table for all Cultures“ i…

Architecture is not only a profession but also a window on the world, and it can be deployed as an instrument to effect social change. It’s a message you’ve been spreading for years in lectures, though activities such as the RSVP events…

Peter Nietzke and Elisabeth Blum, both architects and authors of the publication FavelaMetropolis, delivered an optimistic story about Brazilian slums like Copacabana and Favela-Bairro. It wasn’t that they were positive about life in the slum, which …

The turnout for both days was somewhat disappointing. Were architects too busy working? Or were they enjoying a long Pentecost weekend? The room has only half filled, mainly with speakers, most of them architects attached to schools and architects fr…

The various ways in which ‘time’ manifests itself in architecture was an important theme in modernism. After all, modernity was generally seen as an era marked by speed, technical innovations and continuous change. Architecture is often…

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, which started in 1989, put …

'And if there are no more cities, we return to savagery.' This is one of the two quotes from Shadrach Woods with which Tom Avermaete begins his book. It's a quote that rings differently in the weeks after the unrest in French suburbs. Certainly for t…

The aim of the selection commission (Ruud Brouwers, Ton Hartman, Sylvia Karres, Martin Knuijt and Frits Palmboom, and chaired by Tineke Blok) was to present a number of innovative, alert and critical designs that could serve as models for other desig…

Fear is a vague, subjective and elusive feeling that is open to many interpretations. What's it got to do with architecture? Or rather: what's the designer got to do with it? According to Urban Affairs, organiser of Group Portraits, designers should …

Now that it's the holiday season, a large portion of the population voluntarily resides in conditions that fall well short of standards that normally apply to housing. Crammed together in minimal, poorly isolated 'dwellings' of cotton or thin plastic…

For an obituary see the link to the English newspaper The Guardian. To illustrate the Smithsons disapproval for modern urban design a quote from Peter Smithson after he visited in 1954 the new suburbs of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. »It is n…