Land of Chabot: A Highway Landscape as a Monument to a Painter

In the contemporary metropolitan landscape of Rotterdam, the open landscape spaces that once surrounded the city have been reduced to components in a hybrid field. When the polders were still expansive, with an omnipresent horizon, and big skies, they were depicted extensively by the Dutch landscape painter Henk Chabot (1894-1949). Chabot is the...

Open-up Interstices

This research aims to explore the courtyards in Den Haag Zuidwest as the meantime ‘open spaces’ for the urban regeneration of the neighbourhood. Municipality Den Haag has issued the urban regeneration vision of Den Haag Zuidwest “Bestemming Zuidwest Gebiedsverkenning” in 2019, aiming at revitalizing the post-war neighbourhood through urban...