Stories for Architectural Imagination

This essay focuses on imagination as a crucial source of innovation and makes a plea for an approach to architectural education that enables imaginative thinking about new spatial and temporal realities. It starts by foregrounding the strong connections between imagination, stories, and language. It then proposes the reading, telling, writing...

Urban landscape infrastructures: Designing operative landscape structures for the built environment

This paper explores infrastructure as a type of landscape and landscape as a type of infrastructure. The hybridisation of the two concepts, landscape and infrastructure, seeks to redefine infrastructure beyond its strictly utilitarian definition, while allowing design disciplines to gain operative force in territorial transformation processes....

Mind the evaluation gap: Reviewing the assessment of architectural research in the Netherlands

How the assessment of the scientific quality and societal relevance of Dutch architectural research has evolved to bridge the evaluation gap between design and engineering.