Reframing positions: Nederland, Nu Als Ontwerp: A discourse between architecture and politics

The Expression of Political Ideology in the Public Architecture of Hans Scharoun and Hermann Henselmann in post-war Berlin

The close relationship of architecture with power caused it to play an important role in the Cold War conflict between the capitalist West and socialist East side of Berlin after World War Two. This research investigates how architecture was used as an expression of political ideology in the public architecture of Hermann Henselmann and Hans...

Response-ability: building together as performative political practice

Politics no longer works like the democratic ideal presumed it did. We need to find other ways of doing politics: not just representational and abstract, but situated and performative. Architecture can help us doing this. This project focuses on the situation of Reyeroord, IJsselmonde, Rotterdam. I propose a building process of three theatre...

The Bureaucratic Arcadia

This Thesis is about the relations between religion and bureaucracy, from history to architecture.