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Boekkaft: Designed for the Future: 80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable World, door Jared Green.

Designed for the Future: Het Schieblock

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Architectuur, Bijdragen, Boeken, Publicaties, Stedenbouw.

In Designed for the Future, Jared Green asked eighty global leaders who shape our built and natural environments the same question: what gives you hope that a sustainable future is possible? I contributed a short essay about ZUS Architects and its transformation of Het Schieblock, an abandoned office building from the sixties, into the center of the revitalized neighborhood. Read my piece  below.

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Mannen helpen mensen en baby uit overstroomd gebied tijdens evacuatie.

Dutch Dikes

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Artikelen, Bijdragen, Boeken, Landschap, Publicaties, Water.

Dikes are the framework of the Dutch landscape. But even though there are so important, no book has been written about it. That is why the landscape architects of LOLA Landscape wrote it: Dutch Dikes. I contributed to this issue by writing an essay: dikes as a source of innovation. 

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Zilverkleurige koe-trofeeën op sokkels met namen zoals "Maas 50", "Henry 144", "Pieter 50" en vermeldingen van melkproductie.

Sweet&Salt: with the New York Times to the Overdiepsepolder

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Artikelen, Boeken, Eigen werk, Landschap, Publicaties, Water.

When a cow gives more than 100.000 liters of milk during her lifetime, her owner gets a small silver-colored statuette with a plaque with her name on it. Dairy farmer Nol Hooijmaijers and his wife Wil have had three of these prize animals: Mies 30, Henny 144 and Pietje 60. Their statues take pride of place on the countertop in their brand-new kitchen.

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Bochtige waterwegen omgeven door groene en bruine akkers.

Sweet&Salt: Water Is Their Frenemy

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Artikelen, Boeken, Eigen werk, Landschap, Publicaties, Water.

Sweeet&Salt: Water and the Dutch is ‘a beautiful and important book’, writes Armando Carbonell of the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy in his review of the book for the Loeb Fellowship site. ‘The ever-increasing Dutch reliance on engineering solutions to keep the water at bay does not come without costs, and they go beyond the never-ending building and maintenance of structures. There are increasing conflicts between the sweet and the salt, with serious worries about  fresh water for drinking and agriculture.’ And now comes the ‘hot breath...

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Watersporters op golven boven onderwaterwereld met duikers, met toeschouwers.

Designing for water: the sweet & the salt of it

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Artikelen, Bijdragen, Boeken, Design, Landschap, Publicaties, Stad, Water.

Water is life – and death. As floods and droughts assume Biblical proportions in many areas in the world, the magnitude of the water issues we face is penetrating our awareness and our political and spatial agenda. Nowhere is that clearer than in the Netherlands, where mastery of the water has always been a condition for survival. If there is one element which is crucial to the Low Lands – for its sheer existence, for its landscape, for its identity – then that is water. The Dutch created land by pushing the water out with dikes and keeping it out with pumps. Now, however, the country that...

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Koning Willem-Alexander en vrouw met boek "ZOET & ZOUT" voor museumkunst.

‘Sweet&Salt’ presented to the crown prince

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Boeken, Eigen werk, Events, Landschap, Publicaties, Water.

February 12th, 2012: I present the first copy of the Dutch edition of ‘Zoet&Zout: Water en de Nederlanders’ to crown prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands. The English version, ‘Sweet&Salt: Water and the Dutch’ will appear later this week. The prince also opened the eponymous exhibition in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, curated by Maartje van den Heuvel.

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ZOET & ZOUT. Water en de Nederlanders. Koeien in het water. Tracy Metz & Maarten van den Heuvel.

Zoet&Zout: Water en de Nederlanders

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Architectuur, Boeken, Eigen werk, Landschap, Publicaties, Stedenbouw, Water.

‘Zoet&Zout: Water en de Nederlanders’ vertelt het verhaal van de nieuwe verhouding tussen de Lage Landen en dat element dat zo bepalend is voor onze landschap én identiteit: het water. Na eeuwen van heerschappij over het water, waarin we dachten alles naar onze hand te kunnen zetten, proberen we nu mee te bewegen met de natuur. Het water is niet de vijand, maar een frenemy – willen we althans in deze delta kunnen blijven wonen. Zoet&Zout is een tweedelig project: het boek, dat de extreme makeover van steden en landschap beschrijft, en de tentoonstelling in de...

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