Boijmans Van Beuningen Depot: A innovative & experimental manifestation or a political & economical tool

Between 2013 and 2016 a striking number of 11665 architecture competitions were held in the EU, which is around 3888 competitions per year. Competitions were a way to be innovative, experimental and idealistic. However, due to the strike regulations and entry requirements, small businesses and young architects are often excluded. The question...

Permanent temporariness: The urbanisation process of the Jabal al-Hussein refugee camp

Refugee camps are considered temporal places, outside of the normal juridical order, in which people are waiting to restart their lives in a new place or return to their original homes. The Palestinian refugee camps, which have existed for almost 70 years now, challenges these conceptions. The development of the Jabal al-Hussein camp, one of the...

Matera Countrymen Capital

In the 1950s, Italy recovered from the trauma of the Second World War. However, in the deep South of the country, a city remained alien to this progress. Indeed, isolated for a long time, it was unable to challenge new immigration movements and ended up exceeding its saturation limit. That town was Matera, the ‘Shame of Italy’. In a country...

The Qualities of Urban Agriculture to Overcome the Urban Crises: A case study of London during urban poverty, war, and climate crisis in 20th-21st century

This thesis examines urban agriculture as a tool in city planning to overcome a different form of urban crises, such as urban poverty, war, and climate crisis. By examining those specific crises based on historical events, I define agriculture integration strategies in urban planning and their effectiveness to restructure the urban fabric to...

Het Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal: De relatie tussen de ingrepen in het Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal en de aanwijzingen als rijksmonument en werelderfgoed

Het Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal is het grootste functionerende stoomgemaal ter wereld. Dankzij de technische en bouwkundige waarde, is het Woudagemaal in 1977 aangewezen als rijksmonument door de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE). Jaren later, in 1998, is het door de United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)...

The architecture of markets: Comparing the organization of street markets to the market building

Market structures have taken many forms. To understand the organization and architecture of markets, the research will question to which extent markets require the architecture of market buildings by studying the markets of the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The street markets of Rotterdam have advanced at a steady pace and proved that...

Het Coöperatiehuis en het Vierwindenhuis: Een vergelijking van twee Amsterdamse woningbouwcomplexen met geïntegreerde collectieve functies

Concluderend is het antwoord op de onderzoeksvraag ‘Wat zijn overeenkomsten en verschillen tussen de collectieve woonvormen van het Coöperatiehuis (1930) en het Vierwindenhuis (1980) en hoe komt dit tot uitdrukking in de ontwerpen?’ dat het Coöperatiehuis en het Vierwindenhuis met verschillende ontwerpfilosofieën ontwikkeld zijn. Ze zijn met...

Guidelines for Humanitarian Architectural Shifting Priorities: Evolution & limitations of UNHR guidelines for improved refugee shelter following the 1993 FIWISRER

In the 1990s in the field of philanthropy by design there is a rise of two intertwined desires. First, a desire by architects to manifest their socio-political commitment in the problem-solving potential of architecture. Second, a desire by the humanitarian field to manifest its abstract ideal into architectural action by establishing new...

Utopia as Escapism, Escapism as Protest: Exploring the radical art and architecture of 1968 - 1989 Czechoslovakia, the case for VAL collective

Radical experimentation, formal plurality, and oscillation between architecture and visual arts permeated the 50s and 60s generation of architects and artists on both sides of the politically divided Europe. Central and Eastern European examples from this period are often undervalued, if addressed at all, both by Western European standards and...

Tiny Houses: A History Thesis on the Tiny House Movement

With a shortage of over 300,000 homes, which will be even more in the coming years, the Netherlands has a social problem that needs to be solved (NOS, 2021; Bremmer & ten Teije, 2020). The Netherlands also needs to take more progressive measures in the field of sustainability in order to meet its goals. The relatively young concept of "tiny...

Mapping urban diversity: Vernacular, modernist and contemporary Matera

This thesis takes the Southern Italian city of Matera as a case study to analyse the role urban diversity plays in the growth of cities. The analysis focuses on tracking changes in intensity and distribution of urban diversity in representative moments of Matera’s development, from the expansion of the vernacular neighbourhood of the Sassi with...

Suprematist Architecture: a Plane Drawing: Architectural History Thesis on Suprematist Architecture by Kazimir Malevich

The thesis examines the unbuilt Suprematist architecture through the architectural drawings made by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) over the period 1923-24. By looking into the expression of non-objectivity in the built object, the study complements the current body of knowledge of Suprematism and architectural form development in...

The Power of Iron: A Researech on Horta’s Personal Language of Iron Materials

As one of the most prestigious architects of the Art Nouveau period, Victor Horta explored a set of innovative methods to combine iron materials and architectural forms. This article will focus on this particular material language, first analyze the background of iron materials and architectural development at that time; secondly, analyze the...

DeafSpace and Disability: A research into DeafSpace design and its peculiarities in relation to other architectural adaptations for disabilities

Throughout history the built environment has mostly been designed from an able-bodied perspective, which causes a set of challenges for people with disabilities. In the 20th century however, a growing attention for disability in architecture took place that resulted in a shift in architecture. This thesis focusses on DeafSpace design and how...

The Church Cross and the Storm of 1674: The Intangible Enigma of Utrecht

In Medieval Utrecht, five churches were built to form a Christian cross in plan. After centuries of turmoil, in 1674, a storm with multiple tornadoes passed right through the city, damaging most of the churches badly. During these thirty minutes of extreme weather conditions, the skyline had lost most of its church towers, spires and roofs....

Architectural Narration of Memorial Architecture Throughout 20th and 21st Centuries: Form, Spatial and Exhibition Design as Means to Deliver Stories and Experience

The symbolic and meaningful richness of the architecture of commemoration reminds us of important events in the history of mankind, mixing past realities with present-day meta worlds largely created by architecture and place, as well as exhibitions, objects, or even our own experiences. Semiotic opulence, and therefore also the narrative...

Europe’s evolution of atrium houses: Architectural history thesis

This thesis investigates the historical evolution of the atrium house in Europe. The origin and the climatic benefits of the atrium house were found by conducting literature review. Typological variants on the atrium house are determined by testing them to a set of criteria. The traditional atrium house developed in the Roman empire from Greek...

Licht, lucht en leren: Een onderzoek naar de openluchtschoolbeweging en openluchtkuur in de wederopbouwperiode

Als onderdeel van de tuberculosebestrijding bij kinderen ontstonden aan het begin van de 20e eeuw de openluchtscholen. Deze instituten, gericht op het behandelen én onderwijzen van tuberculeuze kinderen, wonnen ook in Nederland aan populariteit. Naast de op behandeling van tuberculosepatiënten gerichte scholen ontstonden er ook openluchtscholen...