Uncollected Built Memories: Spatial conditions for guest workers in the Netherlands (1940s - 1990s)

This thesis contributes to shedding light on the significance of investigating and archiving the housing conditions of guest workers after the Second World War in the Netherlands from the 1940s to the 1990s. It is a topic that has not been sufficiently addressed in architectural and urban studies. The economic boom after the Second World War...

Integration & architecture 1960s: Analyzing how architects dealt with the integration of guest workers from the 1960s through Alvaro Siza’s Punt Komma project

his article examines the integration of migrants in the Netherlands in the 1960s and its connection with architecture. It examines how architecture, specifically Alvaro Siza’s Punt Komma project in The Hague’s Schilderswijk district contributed to the integration of migrants. The essay poses three research questions on the background of...