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van Knegsel, Teun van Knegsel (author)
London is the product of hundreds of big and smaller cities and villages that collided, merged and blended during the course of time. Each of these places used to have its own Highstreet, the commercial and social heart of the settlement. Contemporary London now has 600 former High streets; scattered all over London’s perimeters. These...
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Hoffer, Thom (author)
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van Blokland, Maarten (author)
Dutch cities are both expanding and densifying, corresponding to a global<br/>trend in which people increasingly tend to live in cities. Urban densification<br/>implicates the development of new buildings and redevelopment of part of the<br/>existing building stock, to meet the aims of future cities and their populations.<br/>These alterations...
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Jager, Coen (author)
This research is about the meaning of self-reliant living and what the physical environment can bring to improve this, with as main research question;<br/>In what ways can architecture encourage elderly to become more self-reliant. The research is conducted through fieldwork observations and interviews in care home 't Kampje in Loenen aan de...
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Louwerens, Cornee (author)
This graduation thesis was executed within the studio New Heritage in which the question was raised whether postmodern architecture can be valued as heritage. Multiple postmodern neighbourhoods suffer from a stigma. Outsiders have a negative image where insiders are much more positive about their neighbourhood. This master thesis focusses on the...
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van de Kamp, Jan Bart (author)
Research about church architecture in the past few centuries mainly focussed on reuse. In the past few years, the focus of a lot of church communities has shifted towards reconnecting with society. Architectural research about this topic in church context is still lacking. This is an opportunity for more research, since the physical built...
student report 2021
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Formsma, Annebel (author)
In this history thesis, the role and use of daylight within modernist architecture is explained. Daylight differs not only throughout the day, but also in lattitude. This causes a different approach to the organization and shaping of a building, which is dependent on geography, culture and climate. On the basis of a comparative study, the...
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Lund, Alexia Marie (author)
The building regulations that shape today’s standards of modern architecture have a remarkable historic background that may often be overlooked. What some young architects may perceive as guidelines that are constraining to the design process, are in fact the result of decades of activism for a more inclusive built environment. While...
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Omastka, Agnieszka (author)
The dissertation The Relationship between Christo’s Artworks investigates and discusses the couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s artistic work, who created large-scale projects that use their existing surroundings — architectural or natural. The thesis begins by examining the historical context, which briefly explains the project’s essential...
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Hols, Margot (author)
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Dijk, Tijmen (author)
There is an urgent need for affordable housing solutions in the Netherlands before 2030. However, the focus should not only be on producing new dwellings, but rather on creating homes and neighbourhoods that meet the needs of the future population. In Dutch cities there is a change in the residential culture and there is a large lack of...
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Aben, Lennart (author)
Sustainability is trending. With large numbers, architects are part of the movement that is in search of a more sustainable world. An important part of this search is the urge to prove sustainability. Currently available methods to prove sustainability in architecture play into this demand. However, practice shows that these methods are not...
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Türkcan, Okan Fehmi Saban Fred (author)
New Urban Front investigates how waterfront densification can contribute to interiorizing the Maas river in Rotterdam. In the past decade, the post-industrialization of Rotterdam's docks has created a new urban front: the Maas. However, this waterfront lacks character and scale, while water and city lost their programmatic relation after...
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Tummers-Mueller, L.C. (author), Novas, María (author)
This article approaches post-war housing innovation in the Netherlands from a feminist perspective, shedding light on the hitherto unkown roles played by women architects. It introduces the work of Dutch women architects, some of it acknowledged at the time of its creation, some completely unknown. First, Augustine Schreuder-Gratama, one of the...
journal article 2021
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Harteveld, Maurice (author)
Following the geographical ‘Any-Port Model’, urban design has stipulated and enforced the disunion of port and city over the recent decades. In conjunction with other disciplines, the emphasis has laid at dislocation of production activities in favor of logistic-productive dynamics. At the same time, professional focus was on the urban areas...
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Harteveld, Maurice (author)
This article aims to extent the notion of port-cities and counter the mainstream narrative that port and city, in cases like Rotterdam, have become disunited by reviewing its public spaces in their unique port-city characteristics. These characteristics can be found by systematic approaching and describing public spaces as biographies of place,...
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Havik, K.M. (author), Sioli, A. (author)
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...
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Havik, K.M. (author), Mejia Hernandez, J.A. (author), Niculae, Lorin (author), Pérez-Gómez, Alberto (author)
Elaborating on a host of historical and theoretical references, in this conversation Alberto Pérez-Gómez suggests a course of action for the development of the architectural discipline; opposing the banality of scientism and rationalism, and recognizing instead the need for a degree of obscurity and ambiguity as essential to the full exercise of...
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Havik, K.M. (author), Niculae, Lorin (author), Mejia Hernandez, J.A. (author), Proosten, Mark (author)
This fifth issue of the Writingplace Journal examines different narrative methods, understood as procedures, techniques or ways of relating or recounting events, and how they can be used to appraise and imagine the city. The editorial process of the issue has been developed within the context of the EU-funded COST Action ‘Writing Urban Places’,...
contribution to periodical 2021
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Bastiaans, Stephan (author)
Despite the museum playing a central role in society as public centre of collective memory, artefacts are dogmatically presented in highly introverted "white cubes". In response, the<i> Leiden Civic Museum</i> relies on a strong relationship between "content" and "context" in order to both reassure its collection of societal relevance, as well...
master thesis 2020
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