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Nature as a museum, by Bo Kuiper, Joep Merx & Martin Sitorus.Especially in times of climate change, this should be questioned to stimulate new points of view. We have always used the term nature as a projection of our personal beliefs.…View →
A Dream About Action, by Emilie Stecher.A Dream About Action. Words and Images. Emilie Stecher. The more we know what kind of future we aspire the more we can shape our actions. A short overview on the different positions in the Anthropocene.…View →
Action Reaction, by Robert van Overveld.Action Reaction. Words. Robert van Overveld. Following a previous article called “Your teacher and you”, which was about the student-teacher relation, I got a mail from Sake Zijlstra, a teacher at our faculty.…View →
From Urgency to Action, by The Syrian Turkish Architectural Recovery Team.From Urgency to Action. Words and Exhibition. The Syrian Turkish Architectural Recovery Team. Intersenitivity. ‘‘Our initiative has START-ed with strong intentions.…View →
Ode on A climate Schematic, by Christopher Clarkson.Ode on A climate Schematic. Christopher Clarkson. Below is a parody on the first stanza of John Keats'. Ode on a Grecian Urn.…View →
Grief or Change, by Emilie Stecher.It didn’t really come to my mind that the consequences of even the smallest action that transcended my town, my country or my continent were my responsibility.…View →
When actions speak too loudly, by Chun Kit "CK" Wong.While in social settings, there is strong reason for believing that actions speak louder than words, talk is not always cheap.…View →
Closet and Climax, by Joey Lageschaar.Closet and Climax. Words. Joey Lageschaar. Do you look at me the way I like to look at you? I love the way he looks at you and I would love it if he directed those eyes at me, too.…View →
F*ck Black Friday, by Inez Margaux Van Oeveren.We can no longer ignore the warnings about the climate. Yet, we allow ourselves to be influenced by the short-term gratification of materialism and risk the long-term future of our planet.…View →
The Flawed Notion of a Separate Here and There, by Matt Roberts.At a glance the image on the left looks like it might be a visualisation of North America under the very worst predicted effects of climate change. Thankfully however, this is not the case.…View →
Bnieuws edition 57/03. Published March 2024.It demands that we pay close attention to the impact of our actions, but most importantly, it allows us to reconsider how we approach urgent and complex challenges, from the reuse of waste, to the environmental impact of construction, to climate change…View →
Book Review: Being Ecological, by Amy Young.Highly problematic buildings are still being erected that have a detrimental impact on the climate, just look the work of Zaha Hadid or BIG.…View →
Guns, Germs, and Steel; The Fates of Human Societies, by Abhijeet Chandel.In the book, Diamond makes the case that cultures in regions with plenty of resources and favourable climates were better equipped to improve their political, economic, and technological systems than those in less favourable conditions.…View →
What Do You Care About?, by Zuza Sliwinska & Job Schroën.You can even tell if the building is from a hot or cold climate if you look carefully. Likewise, it can be really insightful to understand the considerations an architect needs to make. What do they find most important in their designs?…View →
Bnieuws edition 56/01. Published October 2022.Finally, we return to our real world, where we can all face our reality again through Emilie’s article on climate urgency.…View →
Blog: Oct 17, 2022In this new beautiful edition, you can read stories about nostalgia for home and food, AI-created architecture, dreaming of a better climate future, how each of us positions themselves in cities as we dream, the Metaverse reality and more!…View →
Brexit and British Architecture, by Amy Young.If we consider the political backgrounds of the renaissance, classicism, neo- classicism, modernism and post-modernism, it is clear that each is driven by varying political and social climates.…View →
Language and Design Cognition: Toward a theory of Language Based Design, by Christopher Clarkson.In this case, the action of language had real consequences for the whole world. This proves that language has the capability to affect the real world outside of language itself.…View →
Thinking the unthinkable, by Nadine van den Berg.My MSc Urbanism thesis is about stimulating climate and flood resilience in hurricane-prone Houston, Texas.…View →
Letting Go Of Enemies In Architecture, by Kevin Lai.Climate Change. ix. Tourists. x. Preservation/ Conservation. Reasonings for the ten enemies of architecture: i. Victor Hugo, 1831, “This Will Kill That”, Notre-Dame de Paris. ii.…View →
Does Architecture Really Have a Gender?, by BLOB & Jack Oliver Petch (introduction) .We promote risk-taking, shameless behaviour and provocative actions.…View →
Soviet Dreams, by Jānis Bērziņš.In an animation it shows how buildings built as part of the same project and designed by the same architects, usually based in Moscow or Leningrad, are built in different landscapes and climate conditions.…View →