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Perks of Dating an Architect, by Inez Margaux Van Oeveren.Perks of Dating an Architect. Words and Images. Inez Margaux Van Oeveren. Hey you! Probably you are reading this because you are dating an architect, or maybe about to. But more than likely, you are searching for one or you are just curious.…View →
An Introduction to The Invisible Architect, by Inez Van Oeveren.Why do people often think of a male role model, when they hear the word architect? The Kunstmuseum Antwerpen, KAAN Architecten / Stijn Bollaert. Women are invisible in the field of architecture.…View →
Interview Jan Dierckx: 10 minutes with an architect, by Louisa Hollander.Interview Jan Dierckx: 10 minutes with an architect. Words. Louisa Hollander.…View →
Architectural Misconceptions, by Jan Pruszyński.I would say that in case of architecture, the problem is not the public having a distorted idea about architects, but having no idea at all.…View →
Credit Where Credit Is Due, by Maartje Damen.Of course, there is not one way to describe good architecture, but as was pointed out in the first paragraph, there are some famous architects constantly being named as ‘the big ones’.…View →
Architecture without Architects v2.0, by Zuza Sliwinska.Architecture without Architects v2.0. Words. Zuza Sliwinska. In the monotony of standardized, cookie-cutter architecture, we continue striving for novelty in our designs.…View →
Bnieuws edition 53/01. Published September 2019.Architectural Odyssey. 53/01. Architectural Odyssey. Editorial team. Aimee Baars, Jack Oliver Petch, Jan Pruszyński, Elena Rossoni, Chun Kit 'CK' Wong. With contributions from. Sam Eadington. Cover design by. Aimee Baars. Editorial. The.…View →
Promoting a positive Relation-to-Self through Recognition in Architectural Design, by Jeremy Hill.Except in rare cases, architecture is a medium that relates to people that the architect does not intimately know.…View →
Never Been Built, by Aimee Baars.Sometimes, when the time is right, an architect's vision, his fiction, becomes reality. However, when the time isn't right, the idealistic ideas, the promises of the future, end up in drawers in dark and forgotten archives.…View →
The INDESEM Archive, by Inez Margaux Van Oeveren.INDESEM ’85 – Aldo van Eyck, Dutch architect. In 1991, INDESEM imagined that a modern theatre, luxurious, comfortable, a great number of technical facilities was the ultimate building to explore.…View →
Take It Seriously, by Federico Ruiz.The comical effect was even stronger as I considered how architects usually despise humour in architecture. While standing in front of it, I couldn’t help but ask: what was going through the mind of the architect?…View →
Calling it like it is, by Christopher Clarkson.In real life my tutors tell me that “Architects are the prostitutes of the built environment.”…View →
The Metaverse: Our New Playground?, by Saartje Nibbering, Bryan Ye.And with the rise of the digitalization of urban spaces and surrealistic architecture resembling dreamscapes, what will be the effects on the new age architects when they can build in a world where everything is possible?…View →
Challenging Steps, by Inez Margaux Van Oeveren.KINZO is an interior architecture office located in the middle of Berlin at Checkpoint Charlie. As the story is told, KINZO is established by three architects (Karim El-Ishmawi, Martin Jacobs, Chris Middleton).…View →
Designer Wardrobe, by Jonas Althuis.One such stereotype is that of the architect that only wears black clothing and takes themselves very seriously.…View →
Who do we Design For?, by Jan Pruszynski.The results of the poll were published, amongst others, by the Architect’s Journal, one of the largest and most influential magazines on architecture. The title of the article was “Public. ‘Favours Traditional Architecture’”.…View →
Bnieuws edition 54/06. Published June 2021.It starts with renowned Italian architectural magazine Domus. Every year, Domus has a guest editor; a working architect, typically rather successful and innovative at that moment.…View →
Olympic Architects, by Edgars Jane.Olympic Architects. Words. Edgars Jane. From 1912 - 1948 Architecture was officially an Olympic Discipline. There is a lineage of Olympic Champions in Architecture, and that is a fact.…View →
Where is..., by The Datum Collective.Seven architects at SHoP Architects in New York signalled their agreement to unionise (2021). Click to look closer! Where is Care. By Samarth Vachhrajani.…View →
Bnieuws edition 52/01. Published October 2018.After months of being an architect, urbanist or building scientist it is important to be reminded of our other roles in this world: as brothers and sisters; as sons and daughters; as best friends; as loyal supporters of our nation’s football team; as…View →
Dilemmas of an architecture Graduate, by Nadine van den Berg, Ada Jaśkowiec, Lydia Giokari, Kseniya Otmakhova.Aspiring architects get schooled thoroughly in the design process, history and technicalities of architecture. However, unlike for example future artists, architects do not get educated in the business side of architecture.…View →
Missed Takes on Gender in Architecture, by Julia Korpacka.I suppose it is easily digestible and comprehensible to bring everything down to sex – the need for more women architects, issues of pay gaps and underrepresentation can be efficiently translated into tables and pie charts which are, of course, much needed…View →
In conversation with David T. van Zanten, by Stef Dingen and David T. van Zanten, Mary Jane Crow.Several weeks before giving a lecture about Chicago-based architect Walter Burley Griffin’s Canberra Plan, as part of this semester’s Berlage Sessions, there was the opportunity to speak to historian David T. Van Zanten.…View →