A good urban design is only really good if it works at all scales. The way it is inserted into its surroundings, the relation between public space and built space, the...

John van de Water, one of the partners of architecture office NEXT, wrote a book about his adventures in China. Hans Teerds was so absorbed that he read You Can’t Change...

The exhibition OMA/Progress runs until February 2012 at the Barbican Centre in London, a major retrospective which aims to be something else. The exhibition coincides with...

deSingel in Antwerp is presenting the work of Architects De Vylder Vinck Taillieu. This powerful exhibition oscillates between Wunderkammer and declaration of intent. Instead...

In a follow-up to the 2009 lecture series of the same name from the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology, the compilation Architecture as a Craft edited...

Miguel Fisac's best-known building may be demolished, but it still provokes discussion. However, the documentary ‘The Freaky Story of the Funky Skyscraper’ by Andrés Rubio is...

The exhibition ‘Double or Nothing’ in Bozar (Brussels) presents the work of Belgian office 51N4E. In his opening lecture Peter Swinnen offered the architectural public...

Rotterdam, 18xx. A man standing on the northern margin of the river Maas spots another person strolling along the southern bank. He cups his hands to his mouth and yells:...

To have a glimpse is to have a peek. In the case of the exhibition ‘Glimpses 2040: New York/ Amsterdam’ currently on display at ARCAM in Amsterdam and simultaneously in the...

Ed Taverne read the book European Architecture since 1890 by Hans Ibelings. He was impressed by the overview of architecture in Europe offered by Ibelings but...