BookRxiv
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description: BookRxiv is an experimental open-access repository (Rxiv) designed for books and publications in the fields of arts, architecture, built environment, and design.
publisher: Stichting OpenAccess
language: en
publication name: BookRxiv
items: aE Journal
items: HAUP 10th Anniversary
items: An Unproductive Project
items: Agenda 3-30-300 Roadmap
items: Along the Waterfront
items: Teaching Architecture
items: Adaptive Reuse for Housing
items: AM Perspectives 2
items: Blue Papers
items: Pregledi održivosti i otpornosti građene sredine
items: Ground(s)
items: aE journal
items: About the New Architect
items: Dutch connections
items: Charles Prosper Wolff Schoemaker & Vincent Van Romondt
items: Who shot Le Corbusier?
items: Van den Broek & Bakema
items: Gunawan Tjahjono & Josef Prijotomo
items: Van Lohuizen and Van Eesteren
items: Willem Steigenga & Samuel van Embden
items: Cyber-physical Architecture #6
items: Design Pedagogies in Times of Crisis
items: AM Perspectives
items: Transformatie naar woningen
items: If the Past Teaches, What Does the Future Learn?
items: Foundries of the Future
items: Urbanism in the Expanded Field
items: DESIGN STRUGGLES
items: Commons In Design

aE Journal
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description: Welcome to the new edition of the aE Journal, presenting the graduation plans from the aE graduation studio. Guided by the themes of framing the freedom and open design, aE students have worked on improving our built environment in diverse and innovative ways. As I write this edition of the aE Journal, I find myself reading Thinking Architecture, a cahier by Peter Zumthor - still, for me, one of the true masters of expressing architecture through material. Designing is inventing One theme that struck me is what Zumthor describes as “the constant urge to innovate”, raising questions such as: Who are your role models? What problem are you trying to solve? What role does architectural history play in your design process? Even though we rarely create something entirely new, each era brings its own emphasis, its own needs, and its own narrative. Innovation & knowledge building When addressing today’s environmental challenges, I enjoy bringing past pioneers into focus during my lectures: Jean Prouvé with his (circular) connection techniques, Charlotte Perriand with her (bio-based) chalet designs, and Auguste Perret, who - together with fellow architects - created entire city center from a rational approach to material and technology. What all these examples have in common is that their designs often began at a small, craft-based scale, and only when proven promising were they scaled up to industrial applications. How different things are today, where in some sectors - like housing - “industrial” is the starting point. Rather than growing out of design ambitions, industrial processes are often driven purely by technological possibilities. Back to Zumthor, who writes: “Construction is the art of making a meaningful whole out of many parts.” Where he likely refers to the architectural object itself, I would extend the comparison to include today’s architecture and its contemporary pioneers. (Structural) engineer as (urban) architect Today’s discourse on “making cities” seems…
subject: aE journal
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subject: architectural engineering
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subject: architecture
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subject: TU Delft
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subject: Delft
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creator: Emma van Barneveld
creator: Annebregje Snijders
creator: Klaudia Justyna Kurzacz
creator: Monique Smit
creator: Tslil Strauss
creator: Yannick Warmerdam
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Emma van Barneveld; Anne Snijders; Klaudia Kurzacz; Mo Smit, Tslil Strauss, Yannick Warmerdam https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-07-18
publication date: 2026-07-18
doi: 10.47982/68

aE Journal
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description: Welcome to the new edition of the graduation work from the Architectural Engineering Graduation Studio. A studio that has structured its program around sustainability and circularity challenges. Through approaches such as “Open Building,” “Second Life,” and “Harvest,” it offers different perspectives. Materials and production methods are critically examined, leading to new insights and design opportunities. Shift The development of circularity, digitalization, and industrialization within the construction sector also reveals a broader shift: the transition from buildings as unique objects to buildings as product- and system-based assemblies. Where circularity was once primarily a sustainability ambition, it is now becoming a fundamental design principle from the very start of the process. Buildings are increasingly designed as material banks, where components can be disassembled and reused at the end of their lifecycle. From Architecture to Industrial Design Due to the rapid growth of modular and prefabricated construction systems, production is shifting toward controlled factory environments. Instead of traditional on-site construction, building elements are developed as standardized modules that can be easily assembled, replaced, or extended. Modular construction therefore transforms architecture into a matter of systems design rather than purely spatial composition. There is also a growing focus on material innovation. Materials are no longer selected solely based on aesthetics or structural performance, but increasingly on their full ecological and circular potential: reusability, CO₂ impact, and disassembly potential. As a result, materials themselves become design objects, comparable to product components in industrial -design. From Specific to Generic Architecture is thus becoming less of a one-time act and more a continuous process of development, testing, and improvement. Within the Architectural Engineering Graduation Studio environment, this shift becomes…
subject: aE journal
  topic: section
subject: Architectural Engineering, Architecture, TU Delft
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creator: Emma van Barneveld
creator: Annebregje Snijders
creator: Monique Smit
creator: Baan Taweel
creator: Camille Gbaguidi
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Emma van Barneveld; Anne Snijders, Mo Smit, Baan Taweel, Camille Gbaguidi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-07-18
publication date: 2026-07-18
doi: 10.47982/67

HAUP 10th Anniversary
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description: A few days after her arrival at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in August 2014, Carola Hein stood in the History floor overlooking the iconic orange staircase of the faculty building on one side and the Bouwpub on the other. The workspaces of the Chair History of Architecture and Urban Planning were completely empty. Wondering whether she had made the right decision to move the family across the ocean from the United States back to Europe, she pondered if and when colleagues would be settling in, what direction their shared research would take and how to organize the education in a school of architecture. In over 15 years as a professor at a liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, she had developed research and education from an interdisciplinary perspective with a focus on bachelor’s degree students. Highlights of that work were the 360o Program, a cluster of courses from across the curriculum that connected students and faculty to collectively explore contemporary challenges and opportunities for research and education on topics such as Perspectives on Sustainability, Disaster and Rebuilding in Japan and Space and Identity. Trained in architecture and urban planning with a love of history and heritage, she enjoyed the diversity of teaching in the Growth and Structure of Cities Program at Bryn Mawr. Collaborating with faculty in many different disciplines, she acquired broad experience in administration, research and education. But investigation and design of the built environment remained limited in the context of liberal arts education, and Hein was eager to come back to architecture and design and to teach at the master’s and PhD level. Educated in architecture faculties, she saw herself as belonging to the architects as an architectural historian. That meant connecting the lessons of the past to the present and to the design of the future. She was interested in bringing the spatial component to the natural and technical sciences, the social sciences and…
subject: history
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subject: architecture
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subject: urban planning
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subject: Delft
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creator: Carola Hein
creator: Herman van Bergeijk
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Carola Hein, Herman van Bergeijk https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-03-01
publication date: 2026-03-01
doi: 10.47982/k175qg28

An Unproductive Project
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description: The familiar topic of production is the analytical and conceptual lens of this book. Yet, both the premise and outlook of all three chapters together hopefully determine a prismatic research perspective. Its points of view are quite expansive. Taken together, the three chapters can be read as different but parallel articulations of a shared problem: how to confront the compulsion to build that subtends architectural and planning disciplines. This issue is presented as transversal to design: it is tackled from different “scales.” Chapter I posits the notion of unproduction as a theoretical and ethical necessity, drawing out a continuity between architecture, urbanism and territorial planning to highlight their common productivist logic. Chapter II suggests unproductive activity as a source of spatial and political value in the urban public realm, focusing more on urban design and ecological urbanism. Chapter III, in dialogue with Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, situates the moratorium as a practical, pedagogical, and political opening that insists on the feasibility—and the urgency—of stopping construction here and now. This chapter revolves around architecture, or rather around the legal tools that make architecture a matter of politics and therefore bring it closer to the field of planning. While their focus is similar rather than identical, therefore, the three chapters of this book share a common demand, namely, the need nowadays, amid social and ecological injustices and violence, to produce less and thus build less. This stance, by no means, wishes to recall the functionalism or minimalism proper to “less is more” arguments. Instead, this book wishes to join calls, originating from many disciplinary fields, to discuss this collective urgency, and thus political tension. Unproduction is the coordinate that stems from and describes this necessity and an unproductive activity is only one among many cautious answers that might be offered. In this sense, production is c…
subject: CPCL series
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subject: production
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subject: architectural and planning disciplines
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subject: unproduction
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subject: architecture
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subject: design
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subject: moratorium
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creator: Elena Dorato
creator: Richard Lee Peragine
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Elena Dorato, Richard Lee Peragine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-10-29
publication date: 2025-10-29
doi: 10.47982/bed4ax83

Agenda 3-30-300 Roadmap
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description: The Agenda 3-30-300 project, initiated and led by Placemaking Western Balkans (PWB) in collaboration with WWF Adria and the EU4You program, was developed to popularise and critically examine the significance of the 3-30-300 principle in the Balkans and Southeast Europe. Conceived as both a research and educational initiative, the project stands at the intersection of academic knowledge, professional practice, and civic engagement, aiming to translate a globally recognised principle into actionable local strategies. The 3-30-300 principle, developed within the framework of the Dutch Nature-Based Solutions Institute under the leadership of Professor Cecil Konijnendijk, has gained increasing attention worldwide as a simple yet effective guideline for greening cities and improving public health. It requires every resident to have three trees visible from their window, 30% canopy cover in each neighbourhood, and a maximum distance of 300 m to the nearest green space. Multiple international studies have confirmed that access to greenery improves mental health, reduces stress, encourages physical activity, mitigates the urban heat island effect, and strengthens social cohesion. In the long term, investing in urban nature reduces public health and infrastructure costs. In Belgrade, where grey infrastructure continues to expand at the expense of green spaces and access to quality greenery remains uneven, the adoption of the 3-30-300 principle represents a significant step towards sustainable urban development. By re-centring nature in the design and management of public spaces, the principle provides a regenerative approach to urban transformation, where shade, biodiversity, and accessibility are understood as essential infrastructure. Within this broader mission, the Agenda 3-30-300 project has established itself as a platform for exchanges between students, academics, practitioners, and citizens. Its activities include international student workshops, expert interviews, an…
subject: Placemaking
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subject: Western Balkans
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subject: Belgrade
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subject: 3-30-300
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creator: Milena Vukmirović
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Milena Vukmirović https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-10-19
publication date: 2025-10-19
doi: 10.47982/j1gd1d72

Along the Waterfront
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description: In the face of escalating climate challenges, "SOS Climate Waterfront" emerges as a compilation of strategies that bridges the gap between climate change challenges and urban waterfront planning. Through a collaborative effort supported by the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant, this book brings together thoughts and findings from experts across fields like architecture, urban planning, and environmental science. The book explores innovative ways to make cities along waterfront more resilient against climate threats. It showcases projects and strategies that combine the old with the new, ensuring that cities can withstand future climate impacts while maintaining their cultural essence and boosting community life. It aims to spark a transformation in how waterfront cities cope with climate change. As sea levels rise and flooding becomes more frequent, it's crucial for urban planners, architects, and policymakers to rethink how cities can adapt. This book fills the crucial need for a modern guide that integrates cultural heritage with sustainable urban development, presenting a unified approach to climate adaptation. "SOS Climate Waterfront" tackles the pressing issue of enhancing urban resilience along waterfronts. It guides readers through understanding the risks, opportunities, and innovative strategies necessary for developing sustainable cities that are ready for future climate conditions. This book is designed to be both practical and inspiring, offering a roadmap for integrating environmental care with urban development, ensuring cities not only survive but thrive in the face of climate challenges. It serves as a tool for those involved in city planning and community building, enriching their projects with forward-thinking approaches and sustainable practices.
subject: climate change
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subject: europe
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subject: waterfront
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subject: marie curie
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creator: Pedro Garcia
creator: Alkmini Paka
creator: Anastasia Tzaka
creator: Claudia Mattogno
creator: Justyna Borucka
creator: Katarina Larsen
creator: Lina Suleiman
creator: Lucyna Nyka
creator: Maria Rita Pais
creator: Tullia Valeria Di Giacomo
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Pedro Garcia; Alkmini Paka, Lina Suleiman, Anastasia Tzaka, Maria Rita Pais, Claudia Mattogno, Tullia Valeria Di Giacomo, Katarina Larsen, Lucyna Nyka, Justyna Borucka https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-02-01
publication date: 2025-02-01
doi: 10.47982/drp8qj90

Teaching Architecture
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description: This book marks the commencement of a series of projects and initiatives initiated by the Research-on-Education-Innovation programme at the Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, at the conclusion of the 2010s. These initiatives, including the call for contributions to this volume, sought to address pertinent questions that would engage the interests of our colleagues. The primary objectives of these inquiries were to foster innovative, cross-disciplinary approaches in architecture and built environment education. We sought to bridge the gap between theory and practice, encouraging students to engage with both historical contexts and contemporary challenges. Additionally, we explored the potential of educational settings as laboratories for spatial and societal transformation. Furthermore, we examined the development of technical skills and academic skills, such as critical thinking and reflection, among design students. Finally, we addressed the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, including the need for flexible and collaborative learning frameworks and learning environments. Many colleagues responded positively to the call for contributions. After several rounds of review and feedback by the book editors, the submitted papers have been organized into two thematic parts of this volume. We extend our sincere gratitude to all contributing authors for their support and patience, and to the 4TU Centre for Engineering Education, which warmly supports our Faculty’s Research-on-Education-Innovation programme and this book project.
subject: architecture
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subject: TU Delft
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subject: Delft University of Technology
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subject: Bouwkunde
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subject: Education
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subject: Architectural Education
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creator: Remon Rooij
creator: Roberto Cavallo
creator: Frank van der Hoeven
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Remon Rooij, Roberto Cavallo, Frank van der Hoeven https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-08-01
publication date: 2025-08-01
doi: 10.47982/7rjsjy50

Adaptive Reuse for Housing
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description: To address the current housing shortage in the Netherlands, approximately 90,000 new homes need to be added to the housing stock annually. Adaptive reuse of vacant buildings for housing contributes to achieve this aim. Until around 2014, adaptive reuse was seen as a solution to office market vacancy, which surged from around 5% nationwide in 2001 to nearly 15% in 2013. The high vacancy rates were partly a result of the dotcom crisis and the financial crisis. These crises, along with technological advancements and an increase in flexible working, led to a reduced need for office space, while an oversupply of office buildings was developed and constructed. After 2014, a tipping point became apparent. Adaptive reuse was increasingly driven by the demand side of the housing market rather than the supply side of the office market. The focus on sustainable construction and the greening of the existing building stock increased. In the publication preceding this book Transformatie van kantoorgebouwen (Adaptive reuse of offices) from 2007, sustainability was hardly mentioned. At most, adaptive reuse was noted as inherently sustainable because the building was reused. However, due to rising energy costs, the costs of building materials, and the climate crisis, sustainability aspects such as energy-efficiency, circularity, and adaptability have become much more important, though they are not yet fully applied in the market. Currently, the Netherlands has a high demand for housing, and at the same time many buildings remain vacant. Numerous urban areas comprise outdated office buildings that are no longer in demand or in (full) intended use. Across the country, churches are increasingly left vacant due to aging populations and secularisation. Industrial real estate loses its function as industries relocate from city centres to more accessible locations or abroad. School buildings are left empty as neighbourhoods age. Hospitals are vacated due to new concepts and scaling up of h…
subject: housing
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subject: transformation
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creator: Hilde Remøy
creator: Gerard van Bortel
creator: Erwin Heurkens
creator: Roeli van Venrooij
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Hilde Remøy, Gerard van Bortel, Erwin Heurkens, Roeli van Venrooij https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-08-13
publication date: 2025-08-13
doi: 10.47982/pt4ffk28

AM Perspectives 2
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description: The pressing challenges of climate change, reduction of available material and skilled labor for construction, have given a big input to the development of advanced manufacturing, declined in the triad of additive manufacturing, subtractive manufacturing and robotic platforms. Additive Manufacturing (AM) has held its promise of mass customization, from the component scale to full building scale, providing the imagination that each component could be tailored to specific needs without significantly affecting its production costs or time. Today we are witnessing, that while, perhaps, complete dwellings have not been additively manufactured, certainly there have been few houses and neighbourhoods, having their walls fully 3D printed. We have seen them, to be developed in a variety of materials, from concrete, having the largest share, to earthen and bio-based now starting to appear. Bringing to the resurge of the traditional materials, as well opening up to a nearly infinite exploitation of innovative materials, which can be tailored to use organic compounds, to achieve thermal, acoustic and structural performance on demand. The definition, prediction and assessment of the performance of those advanced manufactured materials, components, buildings and infrastructures is enabling to refine AM and the development of new architectural tectonics. Numerical and Virtual simulations are enabling prediction and testing of manufacturing stages, in use performances, and life cycle assessments to measure innovation versus current sustainable development goals. Lately, we are also witnessing the manifestation of the (once) utopian dream of having machines, and robots around us building up components, and full structures. How far are we from the Plug-in City envisioned by the Archigram or by the Gramazio & Kohler urban forms resulting from robotic logics rather than human hands? Perhaps, we are still quite distant by their complete realization, but robotic agents are becoming real …
subject: AM Perspectives
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subject: Additive Manufacturing
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subject: Architecture
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subject: Construction
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creator: Ornella Iuorio
creator: Alexander Wolf
creator: Bruno Figueiredo
creator: Ulrich Knaack
creator: Paulo J.S. Cruz
creator: Marcel Bilow
creator: Holger Strauss
creator: Nadja Gaudillière-Jam
creator: Aires Camões
creator: Alessandro Tiero
creator: Alessia Bisconti
creator: Vittoria Laghi
creator: Michele Palermo
creator: Giada Gasparini
creator: Tomaso Trombetti
creator: Juan Ojeda
creator: João Carvalho
creator: Christina Nan
creator: João Ribeiro
creator: Tatiana Campos
creator: Tássia Latorraca
creator: João Teixeira
creator: Manuel Jesus
creator: Filipe Brandão
creator: Bárbara Rangel
creator: Ana Sofia Guimarães
creator: Christin Gandyra
creator: David Fluss
creator: Eslem Boynuzuun
creator: Mohamad Fouad Hanifa
creator: Paulo Mendonça
creator: Ilaria Giannetti
creator: Andrea Micheletti
creator: Giacomo Scrinzi
creator: Enrico Sergio Mazzucchelli
creator: Sam Wilcock
creator: Emil Korkis
creator: Anja Kunic
creator: Roberto Naboni
creator: Giuseppe Conti
creator: Ingrid Maria Paoletti
creator: Samim Mehdizadeh
creator: Philipp Wüst
creator: Nastasia Sysoyeva
creator: Oliver Tessmann
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ornella Iuorio, Alexander Wolf, Bruno Figueiredo, Ulrich Knaack, Paulo J.S. Cruz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-06-20
publication date: 2025-06-20
doi: 10.47982/eqdj0367

Blue Papers
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description: As humanity becomes aware of the impacts of climate change and mobilizes to address the inescapable challenges of increasing resource scarcity and of protecting the planet from the damage caused by human activities, innovation becomes a key tool for rethinking our lifestyles and consumption models – that is, the organization of our societies. If it is true at the global level that water crises will inevitably escalate in coming decades, the kind of innovation that we adopt must consider future generations. Our goal should be to leave them an environment that respects biological diversity and ecosystems – where all forms of life coexist in natural balance – thereby ensuring a healthy environment for human communities as well. If, then, the innovative approach is absolutely fundamental to overcoming a water and climate crisis that is unprecedented in human history, why not also consider what sustainability lessons we can learn from the development models that have preceded us, with a view also to learning from mistakes that have been made? Why not take a look, then, at those traditional knowledge and water management systems that we have often been so quick to relegate to the past - but which are actually the result of extraordinary social, cultural and technological innovations? On closer inspection, in fact, these are solutions that have been “tested” over centuries and whose sustainability has been witnessed by countless generations residing in the most diverse ecosystem on earth. The uncritical application of new technologies risks the extinction of contemporary ways of life and social organizations that, by their very nature, are ecological and deeply respectful of nature. These are practices inherited from the past that we should take as models for rethinking our future systems of production and resource use. Here, then, is where this thematic issue of Blue Papers dedicated to AHTs proves to be of fundamental help in rethinking current development models. The va…
creator: Carola Hein
creator: Zuzanna Sliwinska
creator: Matteo D’Agostino
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Carola Hein, Zuzanna Sliwinska, Matteo D’Agostino https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-03-01
publication date: 2025-03-01
doi: 10.47982/2v0zzx75

Pregledi održivosti i otpornosti građene sredine
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description: 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 (poglavlja), među kojima je uspostavljena odgovarajuća funkcionalna veza, podstakne razvoj specijalizovanog znanja, podigne kritičku svest o potrebi za interdisciplinarnim i transdiciplinarnim istraživanjem i ojača vezu između univerzitetskog obrazovanja i naučnog istraživanja. Analiza razvoja održivosti i otpornosti, istraživanje aktuelnih pitanja i predviđanja o mogućoj održivoj i otpornoj budućnosti zajedno omogućavaju sveobuhvatno razumevanje ovih koncepata i njihovih međusobnih odnosa u kontekstu građene sredine. Publikacija je izbor recenziranih radova, objavljenih na engleskom jeziku u okviru tematske serije pod naslovom Reviews of Sustainability and Resilience of the Built Environment for Education, Research and Design. I pomenuta serija i ova publikacija predstavljaju rezultate Erazmus+ projekta Stvaranje mreže laboratorija znanja za održive i otporne sredine (skr. en. KLABS), koji je posvećen uspostavljanju sveobuhvatne obrazovne platforme u okviru drugog ciklusa visokog obrazovanja na prostoru zapadnog Balkana. Širi cilj svih KLABS publikacija je bio da se razviju pregledi održivosti i otpornosti građene sredine, korisni za studente, nastavnike, istraživače i stručnjake koji se ovim važnim temama bave na međunarodnom nivou. Publikacija se sastoji iz dva dela. Prvi se bavi održivošću i otpornošću urbanog prostora a drugi nivoom zgrada. Istraživanje počinje teorijskim pregledom istorijske i savremene debate o problemu urbanizacije u svrhu razumevanja i novih tumačenja (urbane) održivosti. Zatim se tumače poreklo, istorija i razvoj koncepta otpornosti, evolucija njegove definicije, tipovi i ključni principi. U trećem poglavlju istraživanje je usmereno na neka fundamentalna pita…
subject: KLABS
  topic: section
creator: Saja Kosanović
creator: Nevena Novaković
creator: Alenka Fikfak
creator: Anita Milaković
creator: Tijana Vujičić
creator: Tadej Glažar
creator: Marija Stamenković
creator: Branislav Folić
creator: Antonio Girardi
creator: Dan Narita
creator: Filippo Magni
creator: Francesco Musco
creator: Martin Broz
creator: Tanja Trkulja
creator: Linda Hildebrand
creator: Thaleia Konstantinou
creator: Tillmann Klein
creator: Ulrich Knaack
creator: Ana Radivojević
creator: Alejandro Prieto
creator: Ljiljana Đukanović
creator: Alexander Hollberg
rights: Copyright (c) 2018 Saja Kosanović, Nevena Novaković, Alenka Fikfak https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2018-09-15
publication date: 2018-09-15

Ground(s)
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description: The international conference Ground(s): Mapping, designing and caring: Towards a convivial society, held in December 2021 at the Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna, represents an intellectual activity, that transcends traditional academic boundaries. Emerging from the idea of the candidates of the PhD 35th cycle in Architecture and Design Cultures - Unibo: Hanna Elisabet Åberg, Irene Cazzaro, Carlo Costantino, Federico Diodato, Javier Pérez Puchalt, Laura Rivaroli, Ludovica Rosato, Giulia Turci, and Yunyu Ouyan, this conference is one of the annual appointments, developed by PhD candidates to open a discussion on topics of interdisciplinary nature, useful for expanding knowledge and research goals, carried out within doctoral research and within the Department of Architecture of Unibo. The aim of these conferences is to highlight that contemporary challenges require a fundamentally integrated approach, fundamental paradigms of spatial understanding, moving far beyond conventional disciplinary constraints, showing a growing understanding that the complex problems of our era, as environmental degradation, social fragmentation, and technological disruption, cannot be addressed through narrow, specialized perspectives. In this light, the concept of Ground(s) emerged as a rich, multidimensional metaphor that simultaneously encompasses physical, social, ecological, and philosophical terrains. It represents more than a mere physical surface; instead, it becomes a dynamic interface where human activities, technological innovations, ecological systems, and cultural practices continuously intersect and negotiate their relationships. This conceptualization challenges traditional notions of space as a static, passive background and instead proposes an active, and responsive understanding of spatial interaction. This publication thus becomes more than a mere collection of academic papers. It represents the research for a new approach to understanding our env…
subject: CPCL series
  topic: section
subject: mapping
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subject: designing
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subject: caring
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subject: phd research
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subject: architecture
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creator: Hanna Elisabet Åberg
creator: Irene Cazzaro
creator: Carlo Costantino
creator: Federico Diodato
creator: Javier Pérez Puchalt
creator: Laura Rivaroli
creator: Ludovica Rosato
creator: Giulia Turci
creator: Yunyu Ouyang
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Hanna Elisabet Åberg, Irene Cazzaro, Carlo Costantino, Federico Diodato, Javier Pérez Puchalt, Laura Rivaroli, Ludovica Rosato, Giulia Turci, Yunyu Ouyang https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-01
publication date: 2024-12-01
doi: 10.47982/qctd0w10

aE journal
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description: Last summer, the Day of the New Architect provided us with a good reason to reflect on the 15 years of aE, assess our development in Architecture and Technology and identify opportunities for the future. How are we passing on knowledge, and where do our alumni go from there? What skills do students nowadays require for their professional lives? Form follows Technology Initially, aE focused heavily on developments in technical and manufacturing domains. For example, early projects emphasized the polyvalent facade and the possibilities of parametric design. For students, this inspired the creation of industrially engineered projects where the beauty of these projects lay in the architectural translation of engineering concepts. They were characterized by the principle of form follows function, dictated by the technology deployed and the ideology of the time, resulting in unique and exceptional designs. Design as research With the growing emphasis on sustainability and significant social challenges we must face, our approach has evolved. Navigating through technical possibilities and exploring their holistic potential became the central methodology of the studio. This systemic approach led to numerous inspiring projects, such as transforming the industrial city of Parkstad into Garden City 2.0, learning from do-it-yourself initiatives and community-based strategies in Bandung/Indonesia, and harnessing innovation for the Marineterrein in Amsterdam. Various experimental sites and living labs in both rural, and urban environments across the globe have served as inspiration for developping strategies and visions for these projects. Moreover, we engaged with stakeholders like the Amsterdam Medical Centre and the government to explore case studies from their existing building stocks. Students investigated opportunities for renewal within these vast structures, focusing on benefits for users, the community, and the very architecture of these constructions. What open design ca…
subject: aE journal
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subject: architectural engineering
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subject: bouwkunde
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subject: TU Delft
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creator: Anne Snijders
creator: Mo Smit
creator: Masja Rietveld
creator: Emilia Bonniot
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Anne Snijders, Mo Smit, Masja Rietveld, Emilia Bonniot https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-10-20
publication date: 2024-10-20
doi: 10.47982/wx1t5v69

About the New Architect
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description: With over 40 years of experience as a lecturer, architect and driver of architectural policy, Thijs Asselbergs looks ahead in About the new architect. In response to conversations with students, Asselbergs shares his personal perspective on the profession and explains how ‘the new architect’ should be shaped. In 2008, when Thijs Asselbergs had just taken up his position as professor at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed. It ushered in the financial crisis, which had an enormous impact on the construction industry and architecture. Over half of the architects at the time lost assignments or quit altogether. This led to a rise in small architectural firms with all kinds of new forms of collaboration. What does the future of architecture look like after that turbulent history? Which challenges await the current generation of architects in times of far-reaching economic and climatic changes? And what is the difference between the old and the new architect?
creator: Thijs Asselbergs
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Thijs Asselbergs https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2023-08-09
publication date: 2023-08-09
doi: 10.47982/j4pkyz24

Dutch connections
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description: Throughout his career, Herman van Bergeijk built his own unique expertise on the Dutch 19th and early 20th century architectural history. He has become an inspiration for scholars in the Netherlands, Europe and beyond. The extraordinary response of colleagues when asked to contribute a chapter in this Festschrift stands as an example of Herman’s widespread influence. Invitations for keynotes and lectures or courses keep reaching him, and he will continue to teach and write. He has an open invitation to teach in China and still bubbles with ideas for yet another new publication series or journal. Several PhD students continue to rely on his guidance and will keep him engaged at the faculty. Herman thrives on lively discussions, in which he often plays devil’s advocate and tries to be as contrary as possible. I am convinced that we will continue to collaborate and battle on diverse topics, notably the role of history in the design of future architecture. Retirement is just another step in Herman’s career.
subject: Inaugural Speeches and Other Studies in the Built Environment
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subject: Herman van Bergeijk
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creator: Sjoerd van Faassen
creator: Carola Hein
creator: Phoebus Panigyrakis
rights: Copyright (c) 2020 Sjoerd van Faassen, Carola Hein; Phoebus Panigyrakis https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2020-12-20
publication date: 2020-12-20
doi: 10.47982/bz8xsf73

Charles Prosper Wolff Schoemaker & Vincent Van Romondt
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description: In this booklet, the architectural theorist and Professor at York University Abidin Kusno discusses two lectures given by two influential professors in the former Dutch colony of Indonesia. The first one, ‘The aesthetics of architecture and the art of the moderns’, was given by C. Wolff Schoemaker in 1930. The second, entitled ‘Towards an Indonesian Architecture’, was delivered by Vincent Van Romondt in 1954. Schoemaker and Van Romondt held different views on the challenges of architecture in the world as well as in Indonesia. They nevertheless both sought to bring the notion of modernism and tradition into the context of their time. The lectures are published here for the first time in English.
subject: Inaugural Speeches and Other Studies in the Built Environment
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subject: Charles Prosper Wolff Schoemaker
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subject: Vincent Van Romondt
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creator: Abidin Kusno
rights: Copyright (c) 2020 Abidin Kusno https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2020-12-22
publication date: 2020-12-22
doi: 10.47982/m39wbc66

Who shot Le Corbusier?
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description: Who were Le Corbusier’s photographers? The question is seldom asked yet is germane to understanding the architect’s work. Le Corbusier used photography to promote modern architecture in ways no others did. He directed the photography of his buildings, selected the images that he liked, cropped them, abstracted them, and placed them on the pages of his many books. He mediated the medium of photography manipulating visual facts in an era when “the camera never lied”. Yet always he began with images that others provided him. Photographers and advancing photo-technology were essential and when they changed, his imagery changed, and between 1922 and 1965 both changed often. Once a craft practiced by skilled technicians with large-format cameras and glass plate negatives, by the mid-1930s, architectural photography had become an art that could be executed by amateurs with hand-held cameras, faster films, and superb lenses. This altered the nature of the photograph and subsequently Le Corbusier’s understanding of his endeavor. For him, photography never simply documented a completed building, it created a new one. He saw through photography.
subject: Inaugural Speeches and Other Studies in the Built Environment
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subject: Le Corbusier
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subject: photography
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creator: Daniel Naegele
rights: Copyright (c) 2020 Daniel Naegele https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2020-08-21
publication date: 2020-08-21
doi: 10.47982/a0jpsz20

Van den Broek & Bakema
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description: Though unalike in personality, functionalist architects Johannes Hendrik (Jo) van den Broek (1898-1978) and Jacob Berend (Jaap) Bakema (1914-1981) were inextricably bound up with each other both as partners in their Rotterdam office, Van den Broek and Bakema Architects, and as professors at the Technical College of Delft. [Fig. 1] Each represents a type of Dutch functionalism. Van den Broek was one of the founders of Nieuwe Bouwen, the modernist movement in Dutch architecture and construction after 1930; Bakema was among the enthusiastic architects of the post-war period moving modernist architecture in a new direction. Van den Broek and Bakema were two outstanding and outspoken characters, invariably typified in architectural historical literature as opposites: the analyst and the idealist, the pragmatist and the philosopher, the schoolmaster and the priest. Van den Broek and Bakema Architects was a key player in the postwar reconstruction of the Netherlands. Despite the sheer size of the task and the shortage of manpower and building materials, the Netherlands had quickly mounted a large-scale operation to rebuild bombed areas with industrially manufactured mass housing and a new cityscape. Van den Broek and Bakema Architects was known for its large-scale building projects, its problem-solving ability, and it generated new ideas about architecture, urbanism, and society. After the war, both architects were appointed extraordinary professors at the Technical College of Delft; Van den Broek from 1947 until 1964 and Bakema from 1964 until his death in 1981. Each left his mark on both architectural education and the atmosphere of the Department of Architecture. Because of the grand scale of construction in the first decades after the war, Van den Broek and Bakema asked themselves what the architect’s role and responsibility were in an increasingly technology-dominated society. It is not surprising that this question was the main theme in their teaching and in their in…
subject: Inaugural Speeches and Other Studies in the Built Environment
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subject: Bakema
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subject: van den Broek
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subject: Van den Broek and Bakema
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subject: Dutch functionalism
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subject: Nieuwe Bouwen
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subject: Post-war reconstruction
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subject: Modernist architecture
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subject: Architectural education
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subject: Technical College of Delft
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subject: Urban planning
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subject: Mass housing
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subject: Architectural pedagogy
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creator: Evelien van Es
rights: Copyright (c) 2019 Evelien van Es https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2019-02-12
publication date: 2019-02-12
doi: 10.47982/p2v7rm94

Gunawan Tjahjono & Josef Prijotomo
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description: In 2002, Gunawan Tjahjono opened his inaugural speech at University of Indonesia with a reference to Vincent Van Romondt, the last remaining Dutch tutor of architecture in Indonesia, who had pioneered an approach that challenged Indonesians to think about the relationship between architecture and ‘nationbuilding’. Since independence, the topic of ‘towards an Indonesian architecture,’ has received various interpretations, with numerous references to Van Romondt. Josef Prijotomo, one of the most respected Indonesian architectural theorists, for instance, wrote an article in a newspaper in 1982 entitled: ‘Van Romondt dan peran arsitekt Indonesia [Van Romondt and the role of Indonesian architects]’. Prijotomo reminded Indonesian architects of Van Romondt’s inaugural speech and his emphasis on the importance of architecture in the nation-building of postcolonial Indonesian society. He also revisited Van Romondt’s question of whether social and cultural values of Indonesia could be the foundation for the construction of architects’ identities in this time of transition. Indonesia is a postcolonial country, and its architects engage with the spirit of decolonization by coming to terms with (instead of ignoring) their colonial past. This reflection on inaugural lectures delivered by Indonesian professors in the postcolonial era reveals a simultaneous identification with and problematization of a Dutch/European legacy of architecture. This booklet seeks to explore the theme of architecture and postcolonialism by focusing on the inaugural lectures of Gunawan Tjahjono and Josef Prijotomo as symptomatic responses to a postcolonial condition, in an effort to construct or re-work an ‘Indonesian architecture’ — a theme that was central to Van Romondt’s inaugural lecture. It addresses this theme by considering the political context against which their lectures emerged. We start with a brief and discursive discussion of institutional shifts in architecture at the time of transition,…
subject: Inaugural Speeches and Other Studies in the Built Environment
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subject: Gunawan Tjahjono
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subject: Josef Prijotomo
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creator: Abidin Kusno
rights: Copyright (c) 2017 Abidin Kusno https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2017-07-01
publication date: 2017-07-01
doi: 10.47982/gwj04e42

Van Lohuizen and Van Eesteren
type: item
description: This small booklet contains the inaugural speeches of Th. K. van Lohuizen and Cor van Eesteren on their appointments as professors at the Technical College of Delft. The texts provide novel insights into their respective teaching programs, and appear here for the first time in English. An analytical reflection on their work by the architectural historian Herman van Bergeijk introduces them.
subject: Inaugural Speeches and Other Studies in the Built Environment
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subject: van Lohuizen
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subject: van Eesteren
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creator: Herman van Bergeijk
rights: Copyright (c) 2015 Herman van Bergeijk https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2015-06-03
publication date: 2015-06-03
doi: 10.47982/92q27k14

Willem Steigenga & Samuel van Embden
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description: 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 this booklet, are important testimonies to this rift. Steigenga, originally a social geographer, was appointed in 1962 at the University of Amsterdam. He paid little attention to questions of architecture and beauty. In 1964, Van Embden became professor at the Delft Institute of Technology (TH Delft) --where he had studied under the influential Professor Granpré Molière--and dedicated his speech to the importance of form in town planning. The two lectures are preceded by an introduction written by Yvonne van Mil and Arnold van der Valk.
subject: Inaugural Speeches and Other Studies in the Built Environment
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subject: Willem Steigenga
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subject: University of Amsterdam
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subject: TH Delft
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subject: planning
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subject: social geography
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subject: Sam van Embden
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creator: Yvonne van Mil
creator: Arnold van der Valk
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Yvonne van Mil, Arnold van der Valk https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-09-01
publication date: 2024-09-01
doi: 10.47982/0sf5y357

Cyber-physical Architecture #6
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description: 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 answer questions about (i) the fundamental framing of post-carbon autonomous construction, (ii) the interdependencies between machines, humans, and materials, and (iii) the different imple-mentation timeframes ranging from continuous transformation to leapfrogging.
subject: SPOOL
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subject: architecture
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subject: robotics
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subject: carbon free
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creator: Henriette Bier
creator: Mirco Becker
creator: Jan Philipp Drude
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Henriette Bier, Mirco Becker, Jan Philipp Drude https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-07-01
publication date: 2024-07-01
doi: 10.47982/xvmjsa79

Design Pedagogies in Times of Crisis
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description: In the spring of 2021, professors and teachers from around the world taught studio courses and seminars that focused on the destruction and rebuilding of Beirut following the massive explosion that took place in the port on August 4, 2020. Some of these courses were taught collaboratively, others started as an independent project, but students and faculty attended each other’s presentations. Each studio was largely taught online due to the coronavirus crisis, which allowed for easier exchange among the groups. But it also prevented the studios from traveling to the field and closely surveying it. Faculty and students relied on presentations and input by colleagues from Beirut, material that could be found online, and documents that were available, mainly in English/French, which to a certain extent limited perspectives. Mutual interest in one another’s work led to some intriguing observations, including about pedagogical approaches and conceptual foundations. Each studio focused on specific premises, as the teachers chose diverse analytical viewpoints to address the rebuilding. At Delft University of Technology, teachers emphasized Beirut’s status as a port city and on the sea-land continuum as the analytical starting point for the design, and they collaborated with Yale University’s Alan Plattus ran a parallel seminar on the history of port cities. At the American University of Beirut (AUB), the instructors focused on the role of visionary planning for post-disaster rebuilding. In the University of Miami, neighborhood-level interventions inspired the teaching in Jean-François Lejeune upper-level spring studio. Similarly, in the German University in Cairo, Holger Gladys’s design studio focused on interventions at the neighborhood-level, namely the Karantina neighborhood, and its up-scalability to city and regional scales. At Tsinghua University, the design studio of Jian Liu and Yang Tang explored the multiple possibilities of rebuilding Beirut’s port and regenerati…
subject: CPCL series
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subject: Beirut
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subject: 2020
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subject: explosion
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subject: TU Delft
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subject: MIT
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subject: German University in Cairo
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subject: American University of Beirut
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creator: Carola Hein
creator: John Hanna
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Carola Hein, John Hanna https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2023-12-15
publication date: 2023-12-15
doi: 10.47982/wgt14d21

AM Perspectives
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description: As technology continues to evolve, it has made a significant impact on the field of architecture and construction. The introduction of additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, has transformed the way architects and construction professionals approach design and engineering. With the ability to print structures layer by layer, this technology offers a level of precision and complexity that was previously impossible. The current state of research on additive manufacturing for architecture and construction is rapidly expanding, and this book aims to provide an overview of the latest developments in this exciting field at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Delft University of Technology, and the University of Minho. The book covers the materials and processes used in additive manufacturing for construction, the challenges and opportunities of scaling up 3D printing for large-scale projects, and case studies of innovative 3D-printed structures. We explore the potential implications of additive manufacturing for sustainability, affordability, and accessibility in the construction industry. Looking to the future, we offer ideas and insights into the possibilities of 3D printing as an ecosystem. As technology continues to improve and costs decrease, additive manufacturing could become a widespread and accessible method of construction, with implications for everything from disaster relief housing to space colonization. The potential for customization and personalization in 3D printing also offers exciting possibilities for individual homeowners and small-scale projects. We aim at providing a comprehensive overview of the current state of research on additive manufacturing for architecture and construction, while also exploring the exciting potential for this technology in the years to come. We hope this book will inspire architects, engineers, and researchers to explore the possibilities of 3D printing and to embrace the opportunities for innovation and creati…
subject: AM Perspectives
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subject: additive manufacturing
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subject: architecture
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subject: research
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subject: construction
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creator: Philipp L Rosendahl
creator: Bruno Figueiredo
creator: Michela Turrin
creator: Ulrich Knaack
creator: Paulo J S Cruz
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Editors, authors and Lab2PT, ISM+D and SOAP https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-05-01
publication date: 2024-05-01
doi: 10.47982/a82n7r50

Transformatie naar woningen
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description: Om het woningtekort op te lossen moeten er jaarlijks zo’n 90.000 nieuwbouwwoningen aan het woningbestand worden toegevoegd. Transformatie van leegstaande gebouwen en herbestemming naar woningen draagt bij aan de oplossing hiervoor. Transformatie werd tot rond 2014 gezien als een oplossing voor de leegstand op de kantorenmarkt, die in de periode 2001–2013 hoog opliep, landelijk van rond 5% in 2001 tot bijna 15% in 2013. De hoge leegstand was mede het gevolg van de dotcom-crisis en de financiële crisis, die samen met technologische ontwikkelingen en een toename in flexwerken leidden tot minder benodigde vierkante meters kantoren, terwijl er juist een overschot aan kantoren werd ontwikkeld en gebouwd. Rond 2014 is een kantelpunt zichtbaar geworden. Transformatie werd steeds vaker gemotiveerd door de vraagzijde van de woningmarkt en niet meer door de aanbodzijde van de kantorenmarkt. De aandacht voor duurzaam bouwen en het verduurzamen van de bestaande gebouwenvoorraad nam toe. In het boek Transformatie van kantoorgebouwen uit 2007 werd duurzaamheid nauwelijks genoemd. Hooguit werd transformatie vermeld als intrinsiek duurzaam, omdat het gebouw werd hergebruikt. Door toegenomen energiekosten en kosten van bouwmaterialen, en door de klimaatcrisis zijn duurzaamheidsaspecten zoals energie-efficiënt, circulair en aanpasbaar bouwen echter veel belangrijker geworden, hoewel ze nog niet overal worden toegepast. Nederland kent een grote vraag naar woningen, maar daarnaast staan veel gebouwen leeg. Op veel plekken in de Randstad staan verouderde kantoorgebouwen waar geen vraag meer naar is. In het hele land komen kerken leeg te staan door vergrijzing en ontkerkelijking. Door verplaatsing van industrie uit de binnensteden naar beter bereikbare locaties of naar het buitenland verliest industrieel vastgoed zijn functie. Schoolgebouwen komen leeg te staan door vergrijzing van de buurt. Ziekenhuizen komen leeg te staan door de invoering van nieuwe zorgconcepten en schaalvergroting. V…
subject: housing
  topic: keywords
subject: transformation
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creator: Hilde Remøy
creator: Gerard van Bortel
creator: Erwin Heurkens
creator: Roeli van Venrooij
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Hilde Remøy; Gerard van Bortel; Erwin Heurkens, Roeli van Venrooij https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-03-17
publication date: 2024-03-17
doi: 10.47982/b9dqze71

If the Past Teaches, What Does the Future Learn?
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description: How can we transform urban environments to encourage durability and mediate the social price of myriad risks and vulnerability?Our work here is to build a bridge from archaeology to mainstream architectural and design theory. The study of places, landscapes, and regions links the two fields. Architecture can be shaped and enhanced by the long-term cultural and geographic perspective afforded by archaeology; architecture can offer archaeology a ride into the future. We hope that our efforts are novel enough to be inspiring and connected enough to allow existing concepts to be furthered. The bridge unites three domains: material, social, and aesthetic. We look to the past to find material technologies—new engineering and conceptual solutions to an array of problems—and the past obliges with many examples. However, these technologies in their material aspects are only part of the story. The archaeologist sees them as playing a role in a system. This system, while mechanically functional, is also profoundly social: it includes administrative structures, but also innumerable other kinds of relationships—kin groups, neighborhoods, genders—that mirror the embedded relations between humans and nature. As in architecture, systems include semantics and aesthetics: not only are these forms pleasing to the eye, but they also tell stories of history and place and give identity and meaning to the lives in which they are enmeshed. This multi-functionality and multi-vocality are inherent in past systems.
subject: archaeology
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subject: history
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subject: ecology
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subject: regional planning
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subject: urban planning
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subject: landscape architecture
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creator: John T. Murphy
creator: Carole L. Crumley
creator: Christian Isendahl
creator: Lisa J Lucero
creator: John Meunier
creator: Steffen Nijhuis
creator: Payam Ostovar
creator: Clemens Reichel
creator: Vernon L Scarborough
creator: Federica Sulas
creator: T L Thurston
creator: Carrie Hritz
rights: Copyright (c) 2022 Carole L. Crumley; Carrie Hritz, Christian Isendahl, Lisa J Lucero, John Meunier; John T. Murphy; Steffen Nijhuis, Payam Ostovar, Clemens Reichel, Vernon L Scarborough, Federica Sulas, T L Thurston https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2022-07-11
publication date: 2022-07-11
doi: 10.47982/BookRxiv.32

Foundries of the Future
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description: 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, planners, designers and community organisations to be able to plan, discuss and collaborate by developing more productive urban manufacturing. The book is split into two parts. We first cover an abridged history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, noting how European cities evolved rapidly by harnessing manufacturing, and then how the late twentieth century led to a radical shift in how cities work and think. We’re now at a crossroads between actors that do not see the need for manufacturing in cities and those that consider it vital for a prosperous urban future. Part of the tension comes from the fact that manufacturing is considered a ‘weak land use’ compared to activities such as real-estate development, which has been considered more financially attractive by many actors in the private and public sector. This real estate-oriented development narrative is increasingly regarded as short-sighted, but will not change without an alternative vision. We have therefore elaborated a narrative on how urban manufacturing responds to four specific challenges facing cities and how in turn manufacturing needs cities. In practice, planning and design for a topic like this is highly challenging. The second part of the book is intended as a handbook. By synthesising our research and fieldwork conducted in a number of cities, we have encountered many similarities in terms of problems, challenges and solutions for urban manufacturing. Inspired by the seminal 1977 book, ‘A Pattern Language’ we have translated our findings into fifty patterns which help render the diversity of issues concerning manufacturing more tangible. As both teamwork and negotiation are necessary, exercises an…
subject: Manufacturing
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subject: cities
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subject: handbook
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subject: Pattern Language
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creator: Ben Croxford
creator: Teresa Domenech
creator: Birgit Hausleitner
creator: Adrian Vickery Hill
creator: Han Meyer
creator: Alexandre Orban
creator: Victor Muñoz Sanz
creator: Fabio Vanin
creator: Josie Warden
rights: Copyright (c) 2020 Ben Croxford, Teresa Domenech, Birgit Hausleitner, Adrian Vickery Hill, Han Meyer, Alexandre Orban, Victor Muñoz Sanz, Fabio Vanin, Josie Warden https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2020-03-11
publication date: 2020-03-11

Urbanism in the Expanded Field
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description: Urbanism has long been considered a complex and time-consuming form of practice, challenged today more than ever by a global condition of an unsettling instability. We propose to consider this fleeting moment in time and space as a case study and platform for understanding larger trends around urbanism, densification, ecosystems, and the infrastructures that connect them. This conference proposes to expand the field of urbanism not only beyond the existing fields of expertise but also beyond the commonly accepted territory of the city. It brings forward different forms of "urbanism," found beyond the city's borders, sometimes temporary and different from familiar definitions of what is called “urban”, and not always following the rules or even dogmas of the accepted discourse of “good urbanity”. We invite researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, students and teachers to share their experiences and join us in an attempt at disrupting the common understanding of concepts such as "city,“ "settlement," "village," and "suburb", with innovative thinking. We seek an urbanism that is resilient, responsive, porous and permeable - one that can invert the late-capitalist tendencies of perpetual into an ever-expanding conception of the “urban” and its mechanisms of sustainable growth.
subject: Bezalel
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subject: Urbanism
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subject: Conference
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subject: Proceedings
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creator: Michal Braier
creator: Lawrence Barth
creator: Rachel Gottesman
creator: Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat
creator: Oz Fishman
creator: Ilana Rudishevsky
creator: Adva Matar
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Michal Braier, Lawrence Barth, Rachel Gottesman, Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat, Oz Fishman, Ilana Rudishevsky, Adva Matar https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2023-05-13
publication date: 2023-05-13
doi: 10.47982/bookrxiv.40

DESIGN STRUGGLES
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description: Design Struggles critically assesses the complicity of design in creating, perpetuating, and reinforcing social, political, and environmental problems — both today and in the past. The book proposes to brush the discipline against the grain, by problematizing Western notions of design, fostering situated, decolonial, and queer-feminist modes of disciplinary self-critique. In order to reimagine design as an unbound, ambiguous, and unfinished practice, this publication gathers a diverse array of perspectives, ranging from social and cultural theory, design history, design activism, sociology, and anthropology, to critical and political studies, with a focus on looking at design through the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, culture, class, and beyond. It combines robust scholarly insights with engaging and accessible modes of conveyance and storytelling by bringing together an urgent and expansive array of voices and views from those engaged in struggles with, against, or around the design field.
subject: design
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subject: pedagogies
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subject: practices
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subject: social theory
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subject: cultural theory
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subject: design history
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subject: design activism
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subject: sociology
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subject: anthropology
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subject: critical and political studies
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subject: gender
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subject: race
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subject: ethnicity
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subject: culture
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subject: class
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creator: Claudia Mareis
creator: Nina Paim
rights: Copyright (c) 2021 Claudia Mareis, Nina Paim https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2021-12-01
publication date: 2021-12-01
doi: 10.47982/BookRxiv.34

Commons In Design
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description: The scarcity of resources, climate change, and the digitalization of everyday life are fuelling the economy of swapping, sharing, and lending—all of which are in some way linked to a culture of commoning. In this context, we understand commons as community-based processes that use, collectively manage, and organize generally accessible resources—referring to both goods and knowledge. Commons in Design explores the meaning and impact of commons—especially knowledge-based peer commons—and acts of commoning in design. It discusses networked, participatory, and open procedures based on the commons and commoning, testing models that negotiate the use of commons within design processes. In doing so, it critically engages with questions regarding designers’ positionings, everyday practices, self-understandings, ways of working, and approaches to education. The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 Design, Identities, and Working Environment Part 2 Design, Body, and Ecology Part 3: Design, Networks, and Digital Making
subject: scarcity of resources
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subject: climate change
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subject: digitalization
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subject: commons
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subject: design
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subject: design proces
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creator: Christine Schranz
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Christine Schranz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
date: 2023-07-01
publication date: 2023-07-01
doi: 10.47982/bookrxiv.41