Experimental Adaptability: Invesigating the Adaptable Qualitites of Experimental Lunetten

Built in the time-specific context of the seventies, the project of Lunetten is an interesting example of residential innovation in the Netherlands. Nominated experimental by the Dutch Experimental Housing Program of 1968- 1980, for its implementation of the design methods of Stitching Architecten Research (SAR), this project shows an early...

Post-war gems along Wibautstraat: An overview of the historical architecture in Wibautstraat

Unfortunately a lot of post-war buildings are considered space makers for newly builds, due to current norms and regulations. This results in demolition, which is harmful with the ever changing taste in architecture. A lot of public buildings along the Wibautstraat originate from after the second world war. These Post-war buildings correspond to...

The historical architecture of Wes Anderson: The Grand Budapest Hotel

This thesis explores the relationship between architecture and film through the analysis of the cinema of Wes Anderson.The research focuses specifically<br/>on the understanding of the spaces which Anderson has created in a historical per- spective. First, the relationship between architecture and film is explored through lite- rature research...

Discourses Behind Industrial Heritage: Exploring the Construction Process and Influence behind the Transformation of Industrial Heritage — By comparing 798 art zone in China and Zeche Zollverein in Germany

Industrial heritage is socially constructed in contemporary society, and diverse subjects and historical contexts create differentiated constructed outcomes. Taking 798 art zone in China and Zeche Zollverein in Germany as research objects, this paper explores and compares the diverse discourses behind the development of industrial heritage and...

Embedded in Social greenery: How the green landscape of Overvecht is determinant for its social development

How the green landscape of Overvecht is determinant for its social development. The thesis seeks to investigate the relationship between the deterioration of the neighbourhood and the green landscape.

Urban Land Under Forces: The Progress and Setbacks of San Francisco’s Urban Transformation Since 1950

This thesis researches the urban transformations of two areas in San Francisco, the Northern Waterfront and the Western Addition area. By examining the contrast results of their redevelopments, lessons are derived in regard to planning strategies.

The settlement of designers in Philips heritage in Eindhoven

In this thesis, the reasons for designers to settle in Philips heritage in Eindhoven is discussed. The question is twofold, as it aims to discover why designers settled in Eindhoven on the one hand and why they then decided to move into the former Philips buildings on the other. The answer is that it was a combination of circumstances that drove...

De Steeg: een onderzoek naar de geschiedenis en toekomst van Amsterdamse stegen

Stegen hebben voor lange tijd een negatief imago gehad, dit is nu echter aan het veranderen. In deze scriptie zal onderzoek gedaan worden naar wat de invloed van stegen op de leefomgeving van steden is geweest en hoe deze zich zal ontwikkelen. Hoe stegen in Amsterdam zijn ontstaan verschilt per steeg, maar vooral per periode. De eerste stegen...

Suzhou Classical Gardens: The content, value and protection process of Suzhou Classical Gardens

This historic thesis is about the content, value and protection of Suzhou Classical Gardens. The author finds a clue that implies a historical timeline in these three aspects, and provides readers with an opportunity to have a more comprehensive understanding of Suzhou Classical Gardens. And this clue is based on the three different subjects:...

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)...

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 ideals of the renaissance in urban planning: An analysis of three centers of the renaissance

With the Renaissance a new way of thinking emerged that would heavily impact the built environment. Artists started envisioning their ideal cities as ordered and geometrically perfect entities and in urban planning projects more attention was paid to the human experience. Although the cities of Ferrara, Mantua and Sabbioneta are all revered for...

Urban World Heritage Management and Climate Change Preparedness: Understanding the Effect of Amsterdam’s Canal Ring District Heritage Site’s Management on the City’s Sustainability Development Plans

This thesis investigates the challeges of conserving the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Seventeenth Century Canal District of Amsterdam while attempting to become climate neutral by 2050. This thesis will start by explaining the background information necessary on the Seventeenth Century Canal District of Amsterdam’s cultural significance to...

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...

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...