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Architects disseminate

Books, media, and the performance of practice

This compact exhibition explores how architects have historically presented their work—how they have narrated, framed, and projected architecture through books, drawings, images, websites, and film. From the first architectural publications in the Renaissance to the media platfor ...
Urban inequality, epitomized by the systemic marginalization and precarious conditions of informal settlements and areas characterized by spatial disparities, continues to be a significant barrier to achieving equitable urban environments across the globe. Such spaces are frequen ...

Ruimte voor wonen

Naar een integrale aanpak van de Nederlandse woonopgave

“De woningcrisis biedt kansen. De kans om een duurzaam en langdurig gezond woonklimaat te realiseren.”

Woningnood is geen nieuw verschijnsel in ons land. Al in de negentiende eeuw leidde snelle bevolkingsgroei en verstedelijking tot een huisvestingstekort; de woningwet v ...

Future Proof Neighborhood

Old and New Housing Ideals

Housing Atlas

Europe - 20th Century

In 'Housing Atlas', beautifully drawn plans, sections and elevations illustrate nearly a hundred of the most important European housing schemes of the 20th century, a period when architects addressed the multiple challenges of modern urban living and responded with an array of in ...
By 2050, two out of three human beings will live in cities. In other words, over the next three decades, 2.5 billion people will be added to the world's urban population. The rate of urbanization will be particularly dramatic in today's low- and middle-income countries. Indeed, n ...

Dutch Dwellings

The Architecture of Housing

Dick van Gameren, a partner with the renowned Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo, has engaged in housing design for the past twenty-five years through his work as an architect as well as in his research and teaching at TU Delft’s Global Housing Study Center. In this book, he present ...
The idea that the development of twentieth- century modern architecture constitutes a linear and inevitable step in the evolution of the art of building has long since made way for a much more nuanced and layered perspective. The relationship between past and present is a complex ...

Dwelling Beyond Cultural Differences

Architectural education for peripheral urbanization in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and India

Brazilian anthropologist Teresa Caldeira describes peripheral urbanization as a bottom-up way of producing cities that is pervasive in the Global South. Using peripheral urbanization as a theoretical framework, this chapter analyzes the results of three housing design studios, or ...
Building adequate housing is a pressing issue worldwide. With close to a billion people currently living in slums, accommodating a growing population, and improving dwelling conditions is a critical issue for society. This challenge cannot be solved with a one-size-fits-all appr ...
Bedaux de Brouwer Architecten 2021-2003, de nieuwe monografie over het Noord-Brabantse bureau sluit aan op drie eerdere monografieën over oprichter Jos. Bedaux en zijn opvolgers Peer Bedaux en Jacq. de Brouwer. Het bureau, opgericht in 1937, wordt inmiddels geleid door een derde ...
The search for new models for affordable housing in the world's ever-growing cities has never been more urgent. Good, affordable housing is needed to confront the still accelerating growth of urban populations and the challenges of urban segregation. Also, to enable those with li ...

Shaping Addis Ababa

The formative role of diplomacy

This chapter looks at the evolution of Addis Ababa through the agency of diplomacy. It focuses on the urban morphological and architectural manifestation of diplomacy in the city, based on a timeline of five recognizable periods. Using exemplary cases, it illustrates the physical ...
In developed countries, the share of the elderly (65+) is growing quickly. In the Netherlands it might reach 25 to 30% of the population by 2040 (see Figure 1). We design best living concepts for the elderly, based on a research in their residential preferences. Our novel methodo ...

Best living concepts for elderly homeowners

Combining a stated choice experiment with architectural design

In this paper we combine the insights from social sciences and architecture to design best living concepts for a specific target group, elderly homeowners. We perform a stated choice experiment to study residential preferences of this group and translate the results into an archi ...
Het kunstenaarsatelier is een bijzondere vorm van wonen-werken. In Amsterdam-Zuid demonstreren deze ateliers hoe binnen twee decennia verschuivingen in stedenbouwkundige ideeën grote gevolgen hadden voor de wijze waarop de combinatie wonen-werken een plek kreeg in de stad.

Unveiling Iranian courtyard house

The example of Kuy-e Chaharsad-Dastgah (1946–1950)

This article discusses the transformation of the traditional Iranian courtyard house type and neighbourhood structure in the early 20th century Iran, and focuses on the design of public housing in the country’s early years of modernisation, after the second World War. It explores ...
Public exhibition held between 1st November and 30th November 2018 at Lilavati Lalbhai Library, CEPT University on the housing designs of Charles Correa.
A public exhibition held between 4 July and 25 July 2018 at the Indian Institute of Architecture, Kolkata, on the housing designs of Charles Correa.
Public exhibition held at the Charles Correa Foundation as part of the 'Designing Equitable Cities' conference in Panjim, Goa.