Architectural Education in Times of Uncertainty: Book of Summaries

Architecture and, by extension, architectural education are severely challenged by the scale and magnitude as well as the complexity of current criticalities. The climate breakdown, the loss of biodiversity, and the impending resource depletion call for a radical rethinking of what is inherent to architecture, but also of how architecture...

Education for Adaptive Reuse The TU Delft Heritage and Architecture Experience

The Section for Heritage and Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the Delft University of Technology specializes in architectural education for adaptive reuse of heritage buildings, with a specific focus on the built heritage of the 20th century. Our approach combines architectural design and technological...

Cultivated landscapes as new cathedrals

Cornelis van Eesteren plays an instrumental role in the history of urbanism education in the Netherlands. He is regarded as a modernist, as a counterpart to the more traditional M.J. Granpré Molière. His expansion plans for Amsterdam earned him a reputation even before World War II, but as well as focusing on the IJsselmeer polders, his post-war...

Van Lohuizen and Van Eesteren: Partners in Planning and Education at TH Delft

This small booklet contains the inaugural speeches of Th. K. van Lohuizen and Cor van Eesteren on their appointments as professors at the Technical College of Delft. The texts provide novel insights into their respective teaching programs, and appear here for the first time in English. An analytical reflection on their work by the architectural...