Inside Outside - Petra Blaisse
Kayoko Ota (ed.) en Petra Blaisse (text); essays from Sanford Kwinter, Cecil Balmond, Renz van Luxemburg, Gaston Bekkers,Chris Dercon et al.
The Dutch interior and landscape designer Petra Blaisse is an outstanding creator who insists on new and more ambitious roles for landscape and interior architecture. On her own and in collaboration with city planners and architects such as Tim Ronalds, SANAA/Kazuyo Sejima, Macken & Macken, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Michael Maltzan, Blaisse intervenes in important projects in Europe, Asia and the United States.
Blaisse's work challenges architecture's rigidity and severity by developing more mutable and fluid solutions, both inside and outside. This is how Blaisse turns what is often treated as an afterthought into an almost overpowering experience.
The full range of her work will be introduced to the public in this book. It contains documentation of several important projects, a conversation between the editor Kayoko Ota and Petra Blaisse, and essays by several renowned authors. The book will be illuminating to architects, engineers and designers of all disciplines and has the potential to give new impetus to the whole architectural field.

Hardcover / 504 pages / text English / 2007

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Prototypes. The Work of cepezed
Piet Vollaard
In the past few decades, cepezed has gained renown with transparent, sustainable and technologically progressive architecture that is remarkably usable and humane. Unaffected design, sober but stylish materialization, and careful finishing are just as characteristic of Cepezed’s oeuvre as the integration of spatial and construction-technical aspects.
The design and building processes at cepezed are also integrated: the use of prefab components and the application of industrial building methods guarantee an optimum alignment of design and realization, in which time, quality, and costs are meticulously planned and controlled.
Prototypes documents a large number of key projects and deals extensively with the various aspects of product development, building process and architecture.

Paperback / 264 pages / text English / 2007
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P.J.H. Cuypers 1827-1921. The Complete Works
Jan Bank, Hetty Berens, Loes van Harrevelt, Ida Jager, Barbara Laan, Wilfred van Leeuwen, Jan De Maeyer, David Mulder, Mariet Willinge
Rarely has a Dutch architect been such a defining factor for the impression of an era than the Roermond-born architect Pierre Cuypers (1827–1921). It is not only the famous edifices such as the Rijksmuseum and the Central Station in Amsterdam that have been fixed in the national consciousness; his many Catholic churches with their neo-Gothic towers are also inseparably associated with the image of Dutch cities and villages.
This book is the definitive overview of the oeuvre of the most influential fin-de-siècle architect in the Netherlands.

Hardcover / 400 pages / text English / 2007

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Frits van Dongen / Designing for Culture Bouwen voor cultuur
Els Brinkman, Fred Feddes, Allard Jolles
The architecture of Frits van Dongen is ’restrained and exuberant, tough and glamorous’, according to the jury who awarded him the 2006 BNA Cube for his remarkable array of cultural buildings. De Harmonie in Leeuwarden, the Pathé Cinema and Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam Zuidoost and the Philharmonie in Haarlem are already in place. The Amsterdam Conservatorium and Tagrijn pop music venue in Hilversum will follow shortly. Though they differ in terms of function and siting, Van Dongen has made of each one a festive affair, with behind the scenes a most efficient and user-friendly logistics structure. Besides the projects listed above, this book documents five competition designs for a museum in Venlo, a theatre in Hoorn, a cultural plaza in Hoofddorp, a concert hall in Bochum and a cinema in Liège. Fred Feddes and Allard Jolles contribute a joint essay on Van Dongen’s oeuvre.

Hardcover / 160 pages / text Dutch, English / 2006

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(EEA) Erick Van Egeraat Associated Architects /10 years realised works
Erick Van Egeraat, Philip Jodidio
The work of EEA, as presented in this retrospective of the past 10 years of its work, covers the full architectural gamut from public, educational, residential, interior design, exhibition design, and the design of furniture and objects. Born in Amsterdam in 1956, Erick van Egeraat is still considered one of Europe's 'young' architects, but has his own multinational firm based in The Netherlands, a long list of completed major projects, and many international awards.
This book presents, in text, superb photos, plans and drawings, more than 30 examples of EEA's unique brand of architecture in locations including The Netherlands, Germany, UK, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
An insightful foreword by prolific architectural author and critic Philip Jodidio helps the reader to place EEA's work in the context of contemporary international architecture, and his keen observations provide a deeper understanding of van Egeraat's unique approach.

Hardcover / 256 pages / text English / 2006

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Aldo van Eyck Writings 1 & 2 + DVD
Vincent Ligtelijn, Francis Strauven
Aldo van Eyck (1918-1998) is one of a few Dutch architects to whom writing is as important as design. His work is a contemplation in image and text.
Part 1 of this edition, The Child, The City and The Artist, is a book based on lectures by Van Eyck at the University of Pennsylvania in 1960.
It has not been published before.
The second part comprises the complete writings from 1947 until 1998, including his discussions on postmodernism as well as his lectures and articles on colleagues such as Carel Visser, Joost van Rooijen, Jaap Bakema, Jan Rietveld and others.

2 volumes in slipcase plus DVD / 238 and 744 pages / text English / 2008

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Situation / KCAP Architects & Planners
Kees Christiaanse, Han van den Born, Ruurd Gietema, Irma van Oort
The Dutch architect and urban planner Kees Christiaanse and his bureau KCAP conceive and realize exceptional concepts and designs in the fields of urban planning and architecture, and at the interface between the two. In the space of 15 years, KCAP Architects & Planners has grown into an internationally active bureau with an impressive built oeuvre in the Netherlands and beyond. KCAP's broad field of work includes large-scale urban and landscape planning, complex inner city transformations and designing buildings.
In recent years, the attention for the future development of European cities has shifted towards the regeneration and restructuring of urban areas, including inner cities. KCAP has realized pioneering work in this area: at former dockland and industrial locations and in the waterfront areas along important rivers. With highly distinctive concepts, KCAP acts as supervisor, urban planner or architect within these settings.
This wide-ranging book represents the first in-depth survey and analysis of KCAP's most important projects.

Paperback / 480 pages / text English / 2005

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S, M, L, XL
Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau
S,M,L,XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first twenty years, along with a variety of insightful, often poetic writings. The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves together architectural projects, photos and sketches, diary excerpts, personal travelogues, fairy tales, and fables, as well as critical essays on contemporary architecture and society.
The book's title is also its framework: projects and essays are arranged according to scale. While Small and Medium address issues ranging from the domestic to the public, Large focuses on what Koolhaas calls "the architecture of Bigness." Extra-Large features projects at the urban scale, along with the important essay "What Ever Happened to Urbanism?" and other studies of the contemporary city. Running throughout the book is a "dictionary" of an adventurous new Koolhaasian language -- definitions, commentaries, and quotes from hundreds of literary, cultural, artistic, and architectural sources.

Hardcover / 1376 pages / text English / October 1997

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At work / Neutelings Riedijk Architects
Willem Jan Neutelings, Michiel Riedijk
Clear geometric forms become sculptural buildings when given a thin skin of decorative patterns by Neutelings Riedijk Architecten. Buildings like the Y Towers (Sporenburg, Amsterdam), the printworks for Veenman Drukkers (Ede) and the Minnaert Building (Utrecht) are icons whose facades give surprising views through to the interior. Inside, the space is captured and used as a formgiving element to tantalize the senses. Those senses are also in for a treat with this lavishly illustrated book charting the firm's history during the past decade. The reader is taken through the many layers in the work of Neutelings Riedijk Architecten, past competition entries and by way of realized to unrealized projects. The book also deals with work to be built in the near future, including the Museum on the River in Antwerp with its public panoramic escalator route rising spectacularly to the top of the building. Arranged into themes, the book presents texts on skin and patterns, hollows and patios, model studies of the sculptures and silhouettes, cartoons, photos and plans in this enlightening overview of the past ten years of Neutelings Riedijk Architecten.

Paperback / 400 pages / text English / 2005

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Onix / Awaiting Signification. Towards an authentic architectural experience
In the space of barely a decade, the Groningen-based architecture bureau Onix has established an impressive reputation. Far from the hub of Dutch architecture in the Randstad conurbation of major cities in the west of the Netherlands, Onix has been working on its oeuvre with highly idiosyncratic views about the essential aspects of architecture. In many of its projects, such as the much-discussed ecological farm for the disabled in Haren, the bureau seeks out novel positions where the context and specificity of the local play an important role, yet without ever falling into the traps of facile historicizing solutions. Even more important for Onix is the view that contemporary architecture is overly dominated by concepts and images, and too little by actual architectonic experience.
The crux of the book Awaiting Signification is therefore the authentic architecture experience. In a large-scale residential complex in Zwolle, designed by Onix and completed in late 2004, the bureau had an apartment at its disposal for six months. Onix has invited dozens of visitors to sleep there for a night, from expert architecture critics to absolute laypersons. In return, Onix expects the visitors to note down their experiences - experiences with the neighbours, with shops, with public transport. This, in short, is what Onix believes to be the essence of architecture. This places the perception of a new building in a perspective totally unlike the norm in architecture criticism.
The book also includes an overview of all the important Onix projects over the last decade. The MaNUfest is the springboard for a text, written by Onix, in which the bureau presents its motivations.

Paperback / 416 pages / text Dutch and English / 2005

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SeARCH
Bjarne Mastenbroek
The work of SeARCH (Urban Planning & Architecture), established in 2002 by Bjarne Mastenbroek and partnered by Uda Visser, is marked by a continuous research into the most intimate meaning of the sites. This book brings together a number of their recent projects. Included are the Dutch Embassy in Addis Ababa, the Villa KBWW in Utrecht, a residential development on an artificial island near Hoofddorp (the Netherlands), the “Wolzak” farmhouse in Zutphen (the Netherlands), the Museum at the Site of Fireworks Explosion in the Roombeek area in Enschede, and a tree-top observation platform near Putten (the Netherlands). Introductory essay by Silvio Carta.

Paperback / 272 pages / text English, Korean / 2010

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Soeters Van Eldonk architecten 1995-2009. Dialoge with people and places
Hans Ibelings
The work of Soeters Van Eldonk Architecten always gives a buzz, and that is excactly what they aim for. For the first time an overview of their complete oeuvre of the last fifteen years is decribed and put into a new perspective.
Soeters Van Eldonk Architecten, based in Amsterdam, are building already more than thirty years all over The Netherlands, and soon projects will be finished in Danmark as well. Their urban projects, like the Easter Harbour Area in Amsterdam, the inner city of Nijmegen or the Helicon Building in The Hague, are always noisy and discussed. Their motto is to be simple and to build on a human scale.
The architects themselves describe the projects and the processes with a large amount of images. Architectural Critic Hans Ibelings is putting the architectural vision in to a context and Filosopher Hein van Dongen sees the work in the context of our urban life and all social aspect coming along with that.

Hardcover / 284 pages / text English / January 2009
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VMX Architects Agenda
Olv Klijn, Don Murphy, Leon Teunissen
Architectural history often remains silent on the subject of how architecture is born. The VMX Agenda demonstrates that this very aspect can be instructive. Within its pages VMX Architects ask: What is it that constitutes our firm? Who or what has shaped us, influenced us, has continued to inspire us? Leafing through ten years of office diaries they identify influences from their student years, from architectural discourse, social context and daily practice. Memories, facts, speculations and anecdotes take turns in a narrative that is both unique and generic. It is the personal history of VMX, but also the description of occurrences familiar to every architect. The sum total is a story of well-spent time, lost time, gained time and of ideals over time.

Paperback / 312 pages / text English / 2007

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West 8. Mosaics
Hans Ibelings, Adriaan Geuze, Chidi Onwuka
Rotterdam's West 8 is not only one of the largest, but also one of the best-known and most active design firms working in Europe today in the field of urban design and landscape architecture.
Their projects are provocative, avant-garde in the typically Dutch manner, and not afraid of contact with popular culture. They were created in close collaboration with such architects as Richard Rogers, Steven Holl, Dominique Perrault, Rem Koolhaas, Renzo Piano, and many others. Classics such as the Schouwburgplein in Rotterdam und Chiswick Park in London stand alongside spectacular temporary installations for the Spoleto Art Festival in Charleston (United States) and Expo.02 in Yverdon-les-Bains. Current projects include Buona Vista Park in Singapore, Luxury Village in Moscow, the outdoor installations for the Hurtigroutenterminal in Tromso, and the South Bank Jubilee Gardens in London.

Hardcover / 280 pages / text English / 2007
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