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Challenges at the encounter of feminism and architectural history
Historically, the work of white Western male architects has dominated architectural history education. In recent decades a large body of scholarship has attempted to critically question this, highlighting and subverting mainstream disciplinary values, which are informed by gender
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The City in the City
Architecture and Change in London's Financial District
An exploration of the dramatic transformation of London's financial district after 1945, viewed at four spatial scales: city, street, facade, interior.
In The City in the City, Amy Thomas offers the first in-depth architectural and urban history of London's financial district, t
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Open Floor vs. Closed Door
Office Design and Gender Inequality
Exhibition: Offices of the College van Bestuur, TU Delft
TU Delft is not just a university, it is a workplace. Approximately 39% of personnel at TU Delft fall into the category ‘support staff’: the people who carry out the important work of organising the administrative, financi
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‘Mart of the World’
An architectural and geographical history of the London Stock Exchange
A stock exchange is a spatial contradiction. Conceived as a marketplace for the trade in securities and other financial instruments, it is intended to provide a regulated forum as a fair and free market for its members: an open economic environment made possible by institutional
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The Political Economy of Flexibility
Deregulation and the Transformation of Corporate Space in the Postwar City of London
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Architecture of care
Creating the fair bank of Belgium
The Graduation Studio of Interiors Buildings Cities (2021-2022) investigates the possible future of the National Bank of Belgium, located in the city of Brussels. The bank as a collective system has been recently scrutinized due to persistent climate change. As Brussels is workin
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Future Bank: Connecting The City
Reinventing the bank in a radical way
The Graduation Studio of Interiors Buildings Cities (2021-2022) examines the possible future of the National Bank of Belgium, located in the city of Brussels. The Bank as a collective system has recently come under scrutiny because of the ongoing climate change and the switch fro
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A Warehouse for Art
Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art
The new design for the Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art (VMHK) endeavoured to provide a contemporary interpretation of the nineteenth and twentieth century warehouse architecture, translated into a contemporary art museum. The 'Warehouse for Art' symbolizes its role as a reposi
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VMHK: a Common Ground for Art
A New Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp
MHKA (Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp), is a museum established in the 1970's. Given spatial and characteristic requirements, it is seeking for an expansion and reestablishment in the wide art scene in Antwerp. The MHKA has deep roots in the city itself, including public in
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An Architecture for Art
Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art
In summary, the design proposal is a new building for the contemporary art museum the M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerpen), which in the future will be the Flemish oriented contemporary art museum VMHK (Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art). The project location is t
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Understanding the Future Workplace
Research towards the use of organisational characteristics in the transition to the hybrid workplace
During the worldwide pandemic between 2020 and 2022, lockdowns were instigated. Working from home became the norm for almost two years. This has caused the needs and preferences of employees and employers regarding work and the workplace to change for good.
As a result, the com
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A Way of Seeing
The M HKA as a public archive of contemporary art
This project stems from an interest in institutions and the materialisation of politics within them, implicit and explicit. Art and architecture both have the capacity to be a scaffolding upon which protest and proposition of alternative relations can be built and communicated. W
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Museum in Sequences
Incorporating a Museum of Contemporary Art into an Existing Court Building
This year‘s graduation studio of Interiors Building Cities focuses on the redevelopment of the M HKA (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen) in Belgium. In the context of an industrial metropolis like Antwerp, museums have evolved from spaces of representation and power structur
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Shifting points in the city
Reflection and representation about vertical life in Valparaiso
This project aims to take advantage of the leftover space in the city and create a
new type of public space in the high-density low rise residential area. It contains
three parts: firstly, renovating the existing infrastructure---the funicular on the site, which is an important f
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Teaching Design For Values
Concepts, Tools & Practices
The process of identifying, interpreting, and implementing societal values in university education is an essential part of responsible innovation and designing for equitable, inclusive, and sustainable societies. While there is now a well-defined and growing body of research on t
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Teaching Design For Values
Concepts, Tools & Practices
The process of identifying, interpreting, and implementing societal values in university education is an essential part of responsible innovation and designing for equitable, inclusive, and sustainable societies. While there is now a well-defined and growing body of research on t
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The Making of the Modern Iranian Capital
On the Role of Iranian Planners in Tehran Master Planning at a Time of Urban Growth and Transnational Exchange (1930-2010)
This dissertation puts together planning documents and multiple archival sources to demonstrate how urban planning and the role of planners have evolved in an ever-changing transnational context of Iran. It challenges the prevailing approach in the literature of Tehran urban stud
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M HKA museum of co-existence. This graduation project rethinks the open museum through co-existing. A public institution in today’s day and age should not only be used by regular museum visitors. According to me the institution also serves a role in the city and neighbourhood it
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The Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art (M HKA) is an institution strongly rooted in the existing fabric and socio-political framework of Antwerp South. The museum is located on the outskirts of the city, which has undergone consistent urban development and urban planning as the c
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