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  • During the 1960s, a rift between urban planners and architects increased as the first group relied on data and other facts, whereas as the second was led by artistic considerations. The two inaugural lectures of Willem Steigenga and Sam van Embden, published in English for the first time in...

  • Vol. 11 No. 1

    Cyber-physical Architecture #6

    Henriette Bier (ed), Mirco Becker (ed), Jan Philipp Drude (ed)
    1 July 2024

    The Spool CpA #6 issue on Human-Robot Interaction for Carbon-free Architecture reviews current tendencies in autonomous construction and human-robotic interaction in architecture. It aims at affirming and/or challenging research agendas in the domain of architectural robots and attempts to...

  • Ninth Annual Conference

    Building Data Architecture, Memory, and New Imaginaries

    Dirk van den Heuvel (ed), Fatma Tanış (ed), Bing van der Meer (ed)
    1 November 2022

    Ninth Annual Conference November 2019 - Jaap Bakema Study Centre

    This year’s annual conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre (JBSC) revisits the broad topic of the digital. This time the focus is on the vast amount of data that are being generated and...

  • Eighth Annual Conference

    The Observers Observed Architectural Uses of Ethnography

    Dirk van den Heuvel (ed), Fatma Tanış (ed), Sun Ah Hwang (ed)
    1 November 2021

    Eighth Annual Conference November 2019 - Jaap Bakema Study Centre

    To put together the programme for our annual conference has always been exciting and challenging. Part of the process is to formulate the thematic and call for papers, to review the incoming proposals of...

  • Living Stations The Design of Metro Stations in the (east flank) metropolitan areas of Rotterdam

    Manuela Triggianese (ed), Olindo Caso (ed), Yagiz Söylev (ed)
    4 February 2021

    Due to the growing demand for mobility (as a primary need for people to get to work, to obtain personal care or to go travelling), cities continue to be faced with new urban challenges. Stations represent, along mobility networks, not only transportation nodes (transfer points) but also...

  • Seventh Annual Conference

    Repositioning Architecture in the Digital

    Dirk van den Heuvel (ed), Soscha Monteiro de Jesus (ed), Sun Ah Hwang (ed)
    1 November 2020

    Seventh Annual Conference November 2019 - Jaap Bakema Study Centre

    This year’s conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre aims to critically explore the interplay between architecture and digital culture since the 1970s. How has the emergent data society materialized in...

  • Gentrification and Crime New Configurations and Challenges for the City

    Giovanni Semi (ed), Antonio La Spina (ed), Mario Mirabile (ed), Edoardo Cabras (ed)
    6 October 2020

    This volume is the editorial product of the project “Gentrification and Crime. New Configurations and Challenges for the City” started by a public conference held on May 6, 2019 at the Municipal Historical Archive of Palermo. This event was organized by Locus and endorsed by private and public...

  • Foundries of the Future A Guide for 21st Century Cities of Making

    Ben Croxford, Teresa Domenech, Birgit Hausleitner, Adrian Vickery Hill, Han Meyer, Alexandre Orban, Victor Muñoz Sanz, Fabio Vanin, Josie Warden
    11 March 2020

    This book attempts to shed light on the ways manufacturing can address urban challenges, it exposes constraints for the manufacturing sector and provides fifty patterns for working with urban manufacturing. This book has been written as a manual to help politicians, public authorities,...

  • Anchored by Hüppauf and Umbach’s notion of Vernacular Modernism and focusing on architecture and urbanism during Franco’s dictatorship from 1939 to 1975, this thesis challenges the hegemonic and Northern-oriented narrative of urban modernity. It develops arguments about the reciprocal...

  • Colour, Form and Space Rietveld Schröder House challenging the future

    Marie-Thérèse van Thoor (ed)
    13 February 2019

    This book on the Rietveld Schröder House (by Gerrit Th. Rietveld, 1924) sheds light on the thorough restorations of its exterior (1970s) and interior (1980s), and the principles for the furnishing when it opened as a museum house for the public, in 1987.

    Since the restorations, carried...

  • Anne Lacaton Visiting Professor 2016-2017/ Chair of Heritage & Architecture

    Lidwine Spoormans (ed), Wessel de Jonge (ed), John Stevenson-Brown (ed)
    15 November 2018

    Anne Lacaton has been a visiting professor at the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment during the Fall Semester 2016-2017, hosted by the Chair of Heritage & Design. In the professional field of Heritage & Design the starting point for design is not just a...

  • KLABS 6

    Pregledi održivosti i otpornosti građene sredine

    Saja Kosanović (ed), Nevena Novaković (ed), Alenka Fikfak (ed)
    15 September 2018

    Održiva i otporna građena sredina je složen sistem čije se značenje kontinualno razvija. Cilj ove publikacije je da problemu održivosti i otpornosti pristupi kroz sistematsko istraživanje različitih segmenata i razmera izgrađenog okruženja, odnosno da predstavljanjem preglednih radova...

  • KLABS 5

    sustainable and resilient building design approaches, methods and tools

    Saja Kosanović (ed), Tillmann Klein (ed), Thaleia Konstantinou (ed), Ana Radivojević (ed), Linda Hildebrand (ed)
    1 September 2018

    The challenges to which contemporary building design needs to respond grow steadily. They originate from the influence of changing environmental conditions on buildings, as well as from the need to reduce the impact of buildings on the environment. The increasing complexity requires the...

  • KLABS 4

    energy resources and building performance

    Thaleia Konstantinou (ed), Nataša Ćuković Ignjatović (ed), Martina Zbašnik-Senegačnik (ed)
    15 August 2018

    The use of energy in buildings is a complex problem, but it can be reduced and alleviated by making appropriate decisions. Therefore, architects face a major and responsible task of designing the built environment in such a way that its energy dependence will be reduced to a minimum, while at...

  • KLABS 3

    integrated urban planning directions, resources and territories

    Enrico Anguillari (ed), Branka Dimitrijević (ed)
    1 August 2018

    The purpose of the book on integrated urban planning (IUP) is to present ongoing research from the universities involved in the project Creating the Network of Knowledge Labs for Sustainable and Resilient Environments (KLABS).

    Although sustainability and resilience have been largely...

  • KLABS 2

    realms of urban design mapping sustainability

    Nevena Novaković (ed), Janez P Grom (ed), Alenka Fikfak (ed)
    15 July 2018

    The traditional thematic realms of urban design, such as liveability, social interaction, and quality of urban life, considered to be closely related to urban form and specifically to public space, have long since been recognised as important, and have given the discipline a certain identity....

  • KLABS 1

    sustainability and resilience socio-spatial perspective

    Alenka Fikfak (ed), Saja Kosanović (ed), Miha Konjar (ed), Enrico Anguillari (ed)
    1 July 2018

    Sustainability and resilience have become indispensable parts of the contemporary debate over the built environment. Although recognised as imperatives, the complexity and the variety of interpretations of sustainability and resilience have raised the necessity to again rethink their notion in...

  • Nishiyama Uzō, educated as an architect between 1930 and 1933, was a key figure in Japanese urban planning. He was a prolific writer who influenced a whole generation of Japanese urban planners and his interpretations of foreign planning and local practice still influence Japanese planning...

  • imagine 10

    Rapids 2.0

    Ulrich Knaack, Dennis de Witte, Alamir Mohsen, Marcel Bilow, Oliver Tessmann
    1 July 2016

    The imagine series, developed at our faculty at TU Delft, is a book series championing ideas, concepts and physically built results. It is for designers and architects: to inspire them and to create a culture of imagination. At the start, the editors needed to promise the publisher a series of...

  • imagine 09

    PROTOTYPING efnMOBILE

    Ulrich Knaack, Uta Pottgiesser, Jens Böke, Max Ernst, Linda Hildebrand, Anan Ashour
    1 July 2016

    This edition of Imagine is about a mobile workshop concept, which is and has been travelling across Europe. It links several universities that are members of the European Facade Network, which is developing a closeknit cadre of facade designers and specialists. What is interesting is to see...

  • Heat waves will occur in Rotterdam with greater frequency in the future. Those affected most will be the elderly – a group that is growing in size. In the light of the Paris heat wave of August 2003 and the one in Rotterdam in July 2006, mortality rates among the elderly in particular are...

  • Town Planning for Australia George Taylor

    Robert Freestone (ed)
    1 July 2015

    George Taylor’s Town Planning for Australia was the first dedicated book on the subject of urban planning published in Australia. Journalistic and ideological in style, it sets out a robust vision for a specifically Australian approach to planning and development of towns in a young...

  • imagine 08

    Concretable

    Ulrich Knaack, Sascha Hickert, Linda Hildebrand
    1 July 2015

    This volume of Imagine demonstrates in an impressive manner the many facets of the material concrete, and introduces unusual approaches for sustainable buildings. It becomes clear how, with concrete, we can expand the architectural design vocabulary and align it with today’s technical...

  • imagine 07

    Reimagining Housing

    Ulrich Knaack, Linda Hildebrand, Thaleia Konstantinou, Hansjörg Wieland
    1 December 2012

    This volume of the imagine book series is called reimagine housing because our intent is to identify new approaches for the refurbishment of existing buildings with a focus on residential housing. It’s that simple – and that complex!

    The topic can be divided into several aspects which...

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