Rethinking the Architecture of the Dwelling in the Digital Age

Footprint 32 looks into the many ways the digital turn has impacted the architecture of dwelling. The issue originates from a simple observation: After the digital turn, the house as a paradigm for the discipline seemed to have gone missing from architecture debates. Recent theorisations of the digital in architecture have almost exclusively...

Queer Encounters in the Archive: Misplaced Love Letters and Autobiographical Homes

The chapter contains a report of the ongoing research into queer voices and architecture at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, which holds the National Collection of Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning. After introducing the National Collection, the authors critically examine how its internal power dynamics and mechanisms privilege certain...

Addressing the Audience: Jaap Bakema and City Exhibitions

This paper examines the case of Jaap Bakema (1914-81) as a precursor to participation and co-creation processes in city planning. Besides his architectural practice and prolific teaching, Dutch architect and Team 10 figurehead Bakema was deeply engaged in creating exhibitions to communicate his ideas to layman audiences. He played a role in de...

Architecture Archives of the Future

Proceedings of the tenth annual conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, with 32 papers on developments in the field of architectural archives and institutions. Plus an introduction by Dirk van den Heuvel on the history of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre and future programme of the research collaborations between TU Delft and the Nieuwe Instituut.

Collapse and Reconstitution: Autonomy and the Avant-Garde

A critical discussion of the historical avant-garde, De Stijl and the work of Theo van Doesburg and its reception and re-interpretations through the years. For the occasion of an art installation at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht by the artist Antonis Pittas.

Risk in “the Room:” Negotiating New Economic Paradigms in the Architecture of Lloyd’s of London Insurance Market

Today Richard Rogers + Partners’ Underwriting Room at Lloyd’s of London—known as “the Room”—is recognized as an icon of the High Tech movement, its modernity aestheticized through intersecting banks of escalators and a soaring twelve-story atrium. Yet on closer inspection, this interior represents a less satisfactory compromise. The product of...

Brutalist Trauma, Picturesque Repair

A discussion of the interrelations between post-war Brutalism and Picturesque revival in the work of Alison and Peter Smithson, in response to the conference question of urban design urgencies of today, most notably the question of city repair.

The Global Workshop

A discussion of the ground breaking teaching activities of the Dutch architect Jaap Bakema (1914-1981) at various institutions around the world.

Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture

Habitat became a hotly debated topic in architecture in the 1950s, when this ecological term was introduced in the avant-garde circles of CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne) and Team 10. Next to rethinking the housing question the notion of habitat brought a profoundly new way to conceive architecture and urban planning. No...

The Political Economy of Flexibility: Deregulation and the Transformation of Corporate Space in the Postwar City of London

Habitat and Architecture: Disruption and Expansion

Introduction of the book and historical overview of the subject of Habitat in architecture, with references to contemporary practices.

Repositioning Architecture in the Digital: Proceedings of the 7th annual conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre

Publication at the occasion of the 7th annual conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre with contributions by Georg Vrachliotis, Armin Linke, Marina Otero Verzier, Ludo Groen, Martin Kuijpers, Dirk van den Heuvel and Soscha Monteiro de Jesus.

Habitat, Ecology and System Theory

A short explanation to the archival selections from the national collection of Het Nieuwe Instituut, which focuses on historical examples of interdisciplinary exchanges between architecture, planning, ecology and system theory.

Architecture and Democracy 1965-1989: Urban Renewal, Populism and the Welfare State

Proceedings of the 6th annual conference organized by the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, Het Nieuwe Instituut and TU Delft.

Brutalism and the Welfare State: Histories of Displacement, 1952-2017

Abstract for<br/>The Brutalist Turn conference<br/>Azrieli School of Architecture, Tel Aviv University, and the Azrieli Architectural Archive, Tel Aviv Museum of Art<br/>14-16 April, 2019<br/><br/><br/>My presentation will look into the intersections of New Brutalism and welfare state politics, using the case of Alison and Peter Smithson to...

The Routledge Handbook of Planning History

The Routledge Handbook of Planning History offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of planning history since its emergence in the late 19th century, investigating the history of the discipline, its core writings, key people, institutions, vehicles, education, and practice. Combining theoretical, methodological, historical, comparative,...