Product Description: Grand celebrations marked the reopening of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum in September 2012, following a renovation that took eight years. The impressive and controversial new wing, designed by Benthem Crouwel Architekten and popularly known as “the bathtub,” anchors the legendary museum firmly in the twenty-first century, allowing much more room for its famed collection of modern and contemporary art and design...read more

Product Description: Charles Bessard and Nanne de Ru founded the Powerhouse Company for Architecture, Design and Research in 2005, swiftly establishing offices in Rotterdam and Copenhagen. This volume includes photographs of their various projects and buildings by Bas Princen alongside computer visualizations by MIR...read more

Product Description: The Spanish architect and urban planner Manuel de Solà-Morales has made successful interventions in urban landscapes from Antwerp to Trieste, Groningen to Porto, and from Barcelona to The Hague. For him a city does not consist of abstractions, but of concrete, tangible buildings and public spaces...read more

Product Description: The end of the Cold War, the lifting of the Iron Curtain and the expansion of the European Union have resulted in a new political, economic and cultural reality. European architecture is experiencing a swift, far-reaching wave of internationalization, and thus becoming more European--more pan-European--than ever before...read more

Product Description: Amsterdam's Eastern Harbor District consists of a number of artificial peninsulas constructed around 1900. When the once-flourishing port lost its function, the decision was made to turn the district into a prominent residential area...read more

Product Description: Europan is a biennial competition for architects and architecture students under the age of 40 that looks for innovative housing designs for real, specific sites across Europe. Guidelines encourage participants to address social and economic changes occurring around their sites, and, for this eighth Europan, that's 74 properties across the continent...read more

Product Description: Auf die Krise der heutigen Stadt antwortet der neotraditionelle Städtebau mit dem Entwurf überschaubarer Orte. In den vier Teilen des Buches werden Leitlinien für die städtebauliche Komposition von neu gegründeten Städten, den Neubau von Stadtquartieren, die Umstrukturierung von Stadtzentren sowie Erweiterungen von Städten und Stadtvierteln dargestellt...read more

Product Description: Lighting the city--illuminating densely populated architecture and public space--is complex, difficult, necessary work. Lights in the Blue chronicles a fleeting exploration of possibilities, when four public, historical sites in the heart of Milan were "occupied" by well-known lighting designers exploring new ways of looking at everyday urban life...read more

Product Description: In the Netherlands, bastion of modernism, neomodernism, and supermodernism, contemporary traditionalism has been causing a stir since the 1990s. No fly-by-night trend is this. Throughout the country, years' worth of architectural and urban projects have been lined up by foreign designers such as Rob Krier, Adolfo Natalini, and Charles Vandenhove, and by Dutch practices such as Soeters Van Eldonk Ponec, Molenaar en Van Winden, and Scala...read more

Documents both the built and the unbuilt home designs prepared for the Dedemsvaartweg Housing Festival organized by the city of The Hague.

Product Description: In response to the sense of crisis in many of today s towns the proponents of new traditionalism offer a form of urban planning which looks back to more traditional styles whilst firmly integrating the requirements of modern life...read more

Almost four years since its initial appearance, Hans Ibelings' essay on the new tendency towards abstract, neutral architecture has lost none of its relevance. His identification and examination of the last word in modern architecture of the post-war International Style stands strong in projects by OMA, Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault, Herzog & de Meuron, and Toyo Ito, and is well understood in relation to one of the dominant forces of the present time: globalization. This enlarged edition of Supermodernism includes a new final chapter in which Ibelings charts the latest examples of supermodernism, as well as a revised introduction and conclusion in which he responds to the numerous reactions his provocative stance has triggered.

Product Description: The architecture and architectural culture of the Netherlands have been causing quite a stir in recent years: a great many remarkable new buildings and projects testify to the current flowering in Dutch architecture, urban planning, and landscaping that's so exciting to so many in and out of the field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Once again the highly successful Architecture in the Netherlands presents a selection of the most noteworthy recent architectural works in the Netherlands. The 1999-2000 edition features works by architects such as Wiel Arets, Benthem Crouwel, Wim van den Bergh and Ger Widdershoven, Bolles & Wilson, Bosch Haslett, DVK Architekten, Erick van Egeraat, Architectuurstudio Hertzberger, Teun Koolhaas, Kother en Salman, Neutelings Riedijk Architecten, Michiel Snelder, and UN Studio...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)