The City Crater

This thesis constructs a theory of urban intervention based on banality, functionality and perception. It provides an example of The Hague Central Station, by placing a fresh, sharp, and plain volume in the existing, complicated, heterogeneous field, therefore forming an illogical, anti-functional demarcation and differentiation of the territory...

The Pauluskerk: An unorthodox church in Rotterdam

The tale of the rebuilding of the Pauluskerk (St. Paul’s Church) in the Dutch city of Rotterdam is a multilayered story that blurs the lines between architecture, societal issues, policymaking and urban redevelopment. The original Pauluskerk was built in the late 1950s in a city centre that was still recovering from the damage it suffered during...