‘Architecture byond building’ was het thema van de Architectuurbiënnale die Aaron Betsky samenstelde in 2008. Architectuur door middel van film, meubels, kunstinstallaties, en door middel van ideeën over de rol die architectuur in de samenleving kan vervullen. Trendspotting gaat naar Venetië. Read the article…
Waarom zijn er zoveel honden in de binnenstad? Word je dik van het forensen? Kan de overheid jouw juis aan een ontwikkelaar verkopen? Kan de kunst de stad redden? In ‘Op de grond. Observaties vanuit Harvard’ onderzoekt schrijfster en journalist Tracy Metz deze en vele andere actuele vraagstukken in de ruimtelijke ordening in de Verenigde Staten. ‘Op de grond’ is een bloemlezing op zakformaat en bevat een selectie uit de columns, essays en interviews die zij schreef als Loeb Fellow aan de Harvard Graduate School of Design. Lees hier de pdf: Op de Grond. Observaties vanuit Harvard 2007
Why are there so many dogs in downtown? Does commuting make you fat? Will the arts save your city? Can the government sell your house to a developer? In this publication, writer and journalist Tracy Metz goes in search of the answers to these and many other topical issues in land use and planning, as practiced in the U.S.A. The book is a pocket-sized anthology of the columns and essays Metz wrote while she was a Loeb Fellow (2006-’07) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Gabriela Seifert and Götz Stöckmann convinced the town of Gelnhausen to let them build a home and studio in the medieval center. A section of the facade rolls out like a drawer to form a balcony.
Amsterdam transforms the 19th century Westergasfabriek into a cultural park. Of the 19 buildings, there are 13 protected monuments. The park is being designed by the American landscape architect Kathryn Gustafson. Read here my article for Architectural Record. Read the article…
Free time is becoming an ever more important factor in the shaping of our society, in the changing landscape, and in the physical and spatial arrangement of the Netherlands. Fun is ubiquitous and has a far-reaching effect on the development of the inner cities, the periphery and the countryside. My book Fun! Leisure and landscape examines, describes and analyses this phenomenon in text and photographs.