A Living Open Architecture Archive: Lessons from Docomomo and Architectuul Collaboration, Challenges and Potentials

In an era of rapid architectural evolution, the preservation of architectural heritage, particularly that of the Modern Movement, stands as a paramount challenge. This contribution aims to showcase the collaboration between Architectuul, an open data architecture community, and Docomomo International, a global non-profit organisation dedicated...

Open Digital Architecture Archives or the Infinite Metaphorical Iteration of Architecture

Digital archives raise the question of how to preserve them, display them or<br/>catalogue them. The question we would like to address here concerns the<br/>potential of digital archives to be integrated into an ideation process, enabling<br/>the creation of new architectural types based on archives of the past.<br/><br/>In a vision of an open...

Observing the Architectural Stigma of the Ugliness: The Cases of Albania and Galicia

Shëmti and feísmo are the two names given respectively in the Albanian and Galician languages to stigmatize this unruly built environment: It is considered a material expression of both constructed and internalized myth of being the underdeveloped peoples in the European periphery.<br/>This paper aims to explore how this stigmatization has been...

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.

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.

Cast in Concrete: Growth and Change in Jaap Bakema's Oeuvre

Many of Jaap Bakema’s proposals centred on the idea of designing structures that residents could fill in or change themselves. Though partly inspired by the picturesque city of Split, he could not always convince residents.

The elusive bigness of Bakema

Architecture and democracy: Contestations in and of the open society

In many ways the work and ideas of Jaap Bakema epitomize the best of the architecture of the post-war Dutch welfare state: it is utterly unapologetic about its modernity as well as its drive to be universal and egalitarian. Bakema firmly<br/>positioned his office and its production at the heart of the Dutch welfare state system. Not only did he,...

Anticiperen versus improviseren: Over recyclebaar bouwen en hergebruik

When the SS Normandie was launched in the early 1930s, it was one of the most famous and most luxurious ships of its time. In the end it would only serve as a passenger liner for six years. During the Second World War the US Navy appropriated it for use as a troopship. The ship was crippled by suspected sabotage in 1942. Shortly after the war, a...