Searched for: subject%3A%22architecture%255C%2Bhistory%22
(1 - 20 of 23)

Pages

List view
Grid view
document
Brandt, Thomas (author)
During the post-war period in the 1950s, brutalist architecture originated in Great-Britain as a reaction to previous architectural movements. It derived from an architectural style of building with exposed concrete called ‘béton brut’. It later became more popular when a new generation of modernist architects started using this exposed concrete...
student report 2023
document
Bosman, Janek (author)
Being a highly earthquake-prone country, Nepal gets hit by a major earthquake roughly every 80-100 years. The recent major tremor in 2015 showed how the houses in the Kathmandu Valley were not ready: 9000 lives and half a million houses were lost. <br/>This thesis describes the changes in earthquake-resistant elements in the residential...
student report 2023
document
Chen, Deying (author)
When looking into the delicate relationship between Aldo Rossi’s theoretical drawings and their implementations in reality, one would always find it fascinating that his projects that were expressive and vibrant on paper oftentimes were built and perceived in a completely different way. For all kinds of reasons, his projects were sometimes not...
student report 2022
document
de Beun, Martin (author)
Lebbeus Woods was an experimental architect best known for his visionary drawings. His entry into the field of experimental architecture was enabled by the conditions in which the field found itself in the 1970s. Through drawing, Woods explored ideas and hypotheses which were unbound from conventional limitations. The field of architecture has...
student report 2022
document
Thomas, A.R. (author), Novas, María (author)
Historically, the work of white Western male architects has dominated architectural history education. In recent decades a large body of scholarship has attempted to critically question this, highlighting and subverting mainstream disciplinary values, which are informed by gendered, racial, classist, and colonial biases. This chapter explores...
book chapter 2022
document
van den Heuvel, D. (author)
A discussion of the ground breaking teaching activities of the Dutch architect Jaap Bakema (1914-1981) at various institutions around the world.
book chapter 2022
document
Thomas, A.R. (author)
Today Richard Rogers + Partners’ Underwriting Room at Lloyd’s of London—known as “the Room”—is recognized as an icon of the High Tech movement, its modernity aestheticized through intersecting banks of escalators and a soaring twelve-story atrium. Yet on closer inspection, this interior represents a less satisfactory compromise. The product of...
journal article 2022
document
Horan, Caley (author), Hudson, Peter James (author), Koehler, Maren (author), Ludewig, Jasper (author), Thomas, A.R. (author), Yates, Alexia (author)
This issue of ATR considers numerous instances in which economic historians and historians of capitalism have turned to architecture as evidence of the workings of economic and financial systems. This collective position paper stems from the attempt to engage more directly with these disciplines; an attempt that was first manifested in the...
journal article 2022
document
van den Heuvel, D. (author)
A discussion of the interrelations between post-war Brutalism and Picturesque revival in the work of Alison and Peter Smithson, in response to the conference question of urban design urgencies of today, most notably the question of city repair.
conference paper 2022
document
Gorny, R.A. (author)
A Flat Theory presents a first step toward a yet-to-be-completed, larger project: a genealogy of apartments. While centering on the historical formation of apartments, it does not offer a straight-forward history of apartments or flats. Rather, as a contribution to a wider history of the present, it draws together the first synthetic study of...
doctoral thesis 2021
document
De Castro, Oliver (author)
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...
student report 2021
document
Herdt, T. (author)
This article discusses the impact of systems thinking and cybernetics on architectural design by examining the example of the Inter-Action Centre (1970–1977) of British architect Cedric Price. The centre reflects Price’s view of architecture as part of an extensive social and environmental system, or ecology, that influences the inhabitants’...
journal article 2021
document
Lee, Rachel (author), Iyer Siddiqi, Anooradha (author)
In this collection, we examine people, places, and things as diffracted through migration. Migration is an event and a concept. Diffraction is what happens in the moment when energy meets an obstacle. The feminist histories collected here speak of that moment.
report 2021
document
Thomas, A.R. (author)
book chapter 2020
document
van Thoor, M.T.A. (author)
The Schröder House, designed in 1924 by Gerrit Th. Rietveld (1888-1964) in close<br/>collaboration with the client Truus Schröder-Schräder (1889-1985), has been<br/>photographed countless times.1 Most of the photographs of this well-known<br/>monument are architectural photographs, of its exterior or interior. Only a few<br/>of them include one...
book chapter 2020
document
Novas, María (author), Carreiro Otero, María (author), López González, Cándido (author)
TThe remoteness of Galicia, a cultural and linguistic bridge between Portugal and Spain, did not prevent it from playing a significant role in the history of female architects in the Iberian Peninsula. Nine Galician pioneers have carved the path since the first generation of Spanish female architects outlined the precedents during the Second...
journal article 2020
document
Publication at the occasion of the 7th annual conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre with contributions by Georg Vrachliotis, Armin Linke, Marina Otero Verzier, Ludo Groen, Martin Kuijpers, Dirk van den Heuvel and Soscha Monteiro de Jesus.
book 2020
document
van den Heuvel, D. (author), Monteiro de Jesus, S.R. (author)
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.
book chapter 2020
document
van den Heuvel, D. (author)
Abstract for<br/>The Brutalist Turn conference<br/>Azrieli School of Architecture, Tel Aviv University, and the Azrieli Architectural Archive, Tel Aviv Museum of Art<br/>14-16 April, 2019<br/><br/><br/>My presentation will look into the intersections of New Brutalism and welfare state politics, using the case of Alison and Peter Smithson to...
abstract 2019
document
Proceedings of the 6th annual conference organized by the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, Het Nieuwe Instituut and TU Delft.
book 2019
Searched for: subject%3A%22architecture%255C%2Bhistory%22
(1 - 20 of 23)

Pages

List view
Grid view