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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 (www.buurtleven.nl), a digital bulletin board where residents ca…
Entitled ‘Rethinking Theory, Space and Production: Henri Lefebvre Today’, the conference reflected the huge revival of interest in the work of Lefebvre today, which most architects are perhaps unaware of. However, if there’s one twentieth-century phi…
The ‘Zone Palatul Parlamentului’ was realised in all its dull monumentality during the Ceausescu regime. The dictator got the idea for the biggest ever grand projet after visiting North Korea, where he saw at first hand what a socialist…
The machine age brought about the birth of science fiction. This genre in literature and, later, film offers us a glimpse of a future dominated by the machine. The information age saw the emergence of cyberfiction, an offshoot of sci-fi in which the …
A better environment begins with the architect - that's if we are to believe the stream of new architecture books on the subject of sustainable building. But there is an important first step of course: sustainable urban development. And that's not ju…
This book is not a monograph as such, but a glimpse behind the scenes. It's a manifesto, a thesis, and a cookbook full of recipes for how to make interactive, complex architecture. Internationally renowned writers such as Andrew Benjamin, Manuel DeLa…