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A Crisis of Imagination, by Joost Hoepman.A Crisis of Imagination. Words and Images. Joost Hoepman. Have we lost our ability to explore the future with curiosity and imagination?…View →
Letter to Us Students at BK, by Kevin Lai.But if there is any lesson for us from this retrospection, maybe it is the observation that these discussions on architectural education come at a time of crisis, e.g. for the AA would be the election that happens periodically.…View →
Hope on water, by Sevince Bayrak.For us, architects, it is not easy to turn this crisis into an opportunity but pandemic gave us the capability to reclaim public space. Fold&Float / SO? (Sevince Bayrak and Oral Goktas).…View →
Interview: Michael van der Tas, by Michael van der Tas, Aimee Baars, Robert van Overveld.He is part of the crisis team of the TU Delft and since we were eagerly interested in what it feels like to be in an empty faculty, we asked him if he could give us a sense of it all.…View →
Book Review: Being Ecological, by Amy Young.As an architect, it is a fantastic book that prompts the re-evaluation of how and what we design, in the midst of a climate crisis. The tone of. Being Ecological. is one of assurance and authority.…View →
Back to the cinema. Please. , by Alessandro Rognoni.Cinemas somehow always survived, through dictatorships or democracies: during WWII, they became both a source of distraction and information on the ongoing conflict; after the oil crisis in the 1970s, they turned to accommodate lower-budget, independent…View →
Shit it out for a Diploma, by Oliwia Jackowska .The lucky or “the most hard-working” graduates who receive highest honours work for an average of 2,700 euros a month or hang around jobless, while a socio-economic crisis is around the corner.…View →
Soviet Dreams, by Jānis Bērziņš.This started a housing crisis in the Soviet Union because at the same time the Communist Party had declared that every Soviet citizen had a right to live in an apartment with the necessary amenities. However, the reality was far from the dream.…View →
What Do You Care About?, by Zuza Sliwinska & Job Schroën.CARE is a global NGO working with communities under the pressure of humanitarian crises; be it the war zone in Ukraine, the earthquake and cholera outbreak in Haiti, or the recent hunger crisis in Eastern Africa… a context most of us are not used to working…View →
On Discomfort, by Jesper-Jay Harrington.not only predicated on the unlimited appropriation of materials from the Global South but is also indifferent to the harsh conditions of commodity production and the ecological consequences of unsustainable economic growth, thus constituting the major crisis…View →
Nature as a museum, by Bo Kuiper, Joep Merx & Martin Sitorus.We believe that this can impact the thinking of experts as much as the general public, which increases our chances of surviving the current crisis.…View →
Hybrid Timber Construction, by Krittika Agarwal.The urgency of the global climate change crisis has forced us to question the fundamentals of our building materials.…View →
Safe at work, by Inez Margaux Van Oeveren.For some employees, this time will be remembered as one of fear of failing relationships, financial crises, or loss of loved ones.…View →
Bnieuws edition 53/06. Published May 2020.Yet, at times when you grasp the absurd reality of the current corona crisis, the home becomes its literal and objective self again, the ‘house’; a block built up from walls, confining and static.…View →
Inside 'Inside' reflections on collapse, by Stefan Gzyl.The fast decline in living conditions has triggered a migratory crisis larger than the ones in Syria or Ukraine. As millions flee, left-behind domestic spaces are not abandoned or left to ruin.…View →
Interview: Raquel Rolnik, by Nicole van Roij.Sweden had one of the most secure housing systems in the world which is currently being dismantled, resulting in a housing crisis. However, the above-mentioned movements are becoming a focal point on the agenda of political parties.…View →
Never Been Built, by Aimee Baars.Back then, the capital of the Netherlands was in crisis, both from an economic and a spatial perspective: in a short time frame most port activities had moved out of the city.…View →
Bnieuws edition 54/06. Published June 2021.In his editorial for this edition, Chipperfield explores this question, scrutinizing the role of architects in modern society, especially in the context of the current challenges we face; the climate crisis, social inequalities across the world, the COVID…View →
Brexit and British Architecture, by Amy Young.The housing crisis, sprawl, rural and urban relationships, and social housing, are just a few of the burning issues needing to be tackled.…View →
Like it's normal., by Inez Margaux Van Oeveren.If I read the newspaper, the front page of Het Parool says; ‘More willingness to adopt environmentally conscious behaviour after corona crisis’. I am not the only one! 26/05/2021. “I hold on shifting, cleaning up, and tinkering with the interior.…View →
Animal Architecture, by Aimee Baars.Ever since the Corona crisis struck, I have discovered a few neighborhood walks, among them a path to a nearby estate named Clingendael. The winding path crosses a stream, then follows it until reaching a pond embraced by several impressive oaks.…View →
When actions speak too loudly, by Chun Kit "CK" Wong.In the case of the Haitian earthquake crisis in 2010, if we were to look at an issue of homelessness and rush into designing houses in our bid to show concern about the situation, it is unlikely that it would do much help at all as we assume the kinds…View →