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E.P.N. Schreurs

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Architecture

The culture of building

This chapter addresses architecture as a cultural and visual medium, in which the design process is typically hidden in office archives and the multiple media of design genesis. In modernist architecture, the architect was seen as a visionary genius and a semblance of “purity” wa ...
The chapters in this book developed out of an online symposium called The Practice of Architectural Research (8–10 October 2020), which examined a research field that operates between design practice and the formation of theory and history. As a consequence, it also explored – th ...

Transformative Dialogues

On Material Knowing in Architecture

In 1857, the architect Henri Labrouste set himself to the task of designing the new Bibliothèque Impériale (later Nationale) in Paris. Already at the very start of the project, Labrouste had decided on an iron construction for its interior. That in itself was not an extraordinary ...

Material Transformations in Architecture

Tracing the Design Process of the Iron Column in Wagner's Postsparkasse

In architecture, thinking and making are in a continuous dialogue, particularly in situations where designers are confronted with material innovations. Whereas historical research of iconic buildings typically documents the work of the architect, this chapter proposes an alternat ...

Over de stad en de kleine korrel

Collectieve architectuur tussen ideaal en praktijk

What do collective dwellings contribute – or could they contribute – to the city? To answer this question we will start with the 2006 publication The intermediate size: a handbook for collective dwellings, and compare the assumptions in this study and that of the Hooidrift constr ...
Al in de zeventiende eeuw beschouwden Hollandse steden de ontwikkeling van woon-werkblokken als een manier om nieuwe bedrijvigheid te lokken. Deze eerste experimenten hebben een verrassende actualiteitswaarde.

As early as the seventeenth century, Dutch cities regarded th ...

Wat er niet is

Neutelings Riedijk Architecten en de traditie van het publieke interieur

The publication 'The New Craft School' investigates the architecture of the vocational school and its role in society. It does so by situating the school within larger cultures of craft and specific networks of people, places and knowledge, in which education forms a crucial link ...
De Nieuwe Ambachtsschool is the result of the research project 'De Ambachtsschool Revisited' into the architecture of vocational schools and was initiated by Susanne Pietsch, Eireen Schreurs, Sereh Mandias and Dolf Broekhuizen. It was funded by the Creative Industries Fund over a ...

A Dutch perspective

Craftsmanship and continuity