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P.J. Teerds
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At Home in the World
Architecture, the Public and the Writings of Hannah Arendt
The modern emphasis on authenticity and the individual not only caused an ‘astonishing flowering of poetry and music’ and ‘the rise of the novel’ states the philosopher Hannah Arendt in her well-known book The Human Condition, but also the fall and ‘decline of the more public art
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The Roles of the Architect
Toward a Theory of Practice
Today's professional field of architecture is characterised by rapid transformation. This heavily affect the role of the architect both within the building industries as well as in society. This article investigates the professional field, in order to develop a reflection on the
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Definiëren en loslaten
Interview met John Habraken
Als kritiek op de standaardisering in de massawoningbouw introduceerde Johan Habraken introduceerde in de jaren ‘60 het onderscheid tussen de ‘drager’ en de ‘inbouw’, waarmee een bouwwerk in de loop der jaren aan onvoorziene veranderingen in programma en gebruik kan worden aangep
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Definiëren en loslaten
Interview met John Habraken
Als kritiek op de standaardisering in de massawoningbouw introduceerde Johan Habraken introduceerde in de jaren ‘60 het onderscheid tussen de ‘drager’ en de ‘inbouw’, waarmee een bouwwerk in de loop der jaren aan onvoorziene veranderingen in programma en gebruik kan worden aangep
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Atmospheres and Sensus Communis
Literary methods for the analysis and design of urban sites
This article questions how architects and urban planners can deal with atmosphere as a crucial quality of urban places. Their challenge is the mediating character of urban atmospheres; balancing between spatial and material arrangements and the embodied, perceiving subject, betwe
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Thuis in de wereld
Een fundamentele reflectie op architectuur
Searching for the public and political aspects of architecture, in order to define a societal meaning of architecture@en
Revisiting Critical Regionalism
Critical Regionalism Revisited
For more than five decades, Anglo-American architecture critic and historian Kenneth Frampton has played a prominent role in architecture culture. During this entire period, he has taken a rather exceptional position, operating mainly in the registers of historiography while simu
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Een ruimte van verschil
Het belang van de publieke ruimte als ontmoetingsplek
De publieke ruimte staat onder druk. Dit artikel biedt een analyse van de druk op de publieke ruimte, en formuleert een argument waarom het belangrijk is dat ontwerpers zich hier druk over maken. Het artikel sluit af met enkele aanwijzingen voor ontwerpers, om 'ruimte te bieden v
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Define and Let Go
An Interview with John Habraken
The name of John Habraken wül always be associated with the distinction that he made between 'support' and 'infill' in architectural and urban development projects. In Supports: an Alternative to Mass Housing,'' he argued that it is people themselves who 'make' their surroundings
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Within or Without the Four Walls
An Architectural Reading of Hannah Arendt's Reflections on the Private Realm
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Escaping Casablanca
Resorting to Inversions of the Everyday
Over the last century, Casablanca has become the economical capital of Morocco. To deal with this ever congesting metropolis, the French Europeans and later wealthy Moroccans, have established an entire region to escape from Casablanca's everyday. The research investigates this r
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Spaces of experience
About the spatial implications of contemporary art and the agency of architecture
The framework of this work is situated between the typological issue about the epistemological definition of art spaces, and their role as consequence within the city, and a personal interest in the kind of attention art demands in space for a specific engagement. It is in the pl
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The Added Value of Creative Residencies
A research into the tangible effects of the creative sector on vibrancy
Besides being the fastest growing sector in the Netherlands, and a pioneer in working standards, the creative sector is believed to have a positive effect on economic growth. Multi-tenant buildings occupied by creative sector companies, i.e. creative residencies, are thus assume
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Converging Maârif
Educational focal point for Maârif
This project adds back quality to the living conditions of the most dense district of Casablanca. By providing the district Maârif with a common center, I consolidate the currently disconnected neighborhoods. The main program on this site is focused around education. Education he
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Inhabitable Ruin
Transformation of Abandoned Roman-Catholic Churches in Post-Colonial Casablanca
The development of Casablanca can be understood through two major shifts in its history; colonization and de-colonization. During the first shift, city divided into culture specific urban areas in which new alien urban structures built to control and satisfy the needs of diverse
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Casablanca
Analysis and Research in the Afropolis
This book is the result of the research conducted in the P1 phase of the graduation studio ‘Positions in Practice’ of the chair Methods and Analysis in the department for architecture and the built environment, TU Delft.
DASH Van woning naar woning
Radicale transformaties van woongebouwen
Following the large-scale production of new buildings in the second half of the twentieth century and the lull of the economic crisis, a new practice is emerging. Finding ways to reuse the existing building stock plays an important part in this. In the quest for a more sustainabl
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DASH Van woning naar woning
Radicale transformaties van woongebouwen
Following the large-scale production of new buildings in the second half of the twentieth century and the lull of the economic crisis, a new practice is emerging. Finding ways to reuse the existing building stock plays an important part in this. In the quest for a more sustainabl
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DASH Home Work City
Living and Working in the Urban Block
Our contemporary service economy calls the divide between living and working, one of the dogmas of modernist urbanism, into question. People increasingly work from home, in dwellings that were never designed for this purpose.
De scheiding tussen wonen en werken, een van de dogma
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DASH Home Work City
Living and Working in the Urban Block
Our contemporary service economy calls the divide between living and working, one of the dogmas of modernist urbanism, into question. People increasingly work from home, in dwellings that were never designed for this purpose.
De scheiding tussen wonen en werken, een van de dogma
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