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Cheap or Priceless?, by Ksenija Onufrijeva.The legacy of the second part of the 20th century that brought countless factories, warehouses, once-bustling industrial areas into silent pieces of oblivion. And so they stay. Empty.…View →
A Shitty Architectural Autobiography, by Federico Ruiz.The toilet seats were a single piece of steel, reminding of a post-industrial techno club, but with a fancy twist. Prada, Milan and Koolhaas, a holy trinity of fashion, were also represented in these faecal cubicles.…View →
Post-Post Post, by Night(s) of Philosophy.Post-Post Post. Words. Night(s) of Philosophy. As Night(s) of Philosophy, a working group of ARGUS, the Architecture Masters student association, this year we concern ourselves with questions of the post-anthropocene.…View →
The Formal Basis of Post-modern Joke Design (of Design Jokes), by Editorial team.The Formal Basis of Post-modern Joke Design (of Design Jokes). Words. Editorial team. Joke design is a historical, multidisciplinary, and interstitial practice. As such, it is (a priori) embedded in our understanding of the world as a joke.…View →
Misleading Memories, by Ieva Davulyte .Looking at the Soviet periodization in Lithuania through the architectural prism, there appear three major aesthetic tendencies (Petrulis, 2006): social realism, industrial Soviet modernism, and diverse manifestations of stylistic searches.…View →
As the Wind Rises and Falls, by Tuyen Le.While they hold virtually no meaningful cultural values, can we still humanise the industrial wind turbines? Can we care for them as part of the modern relationship that the Netherlands associates with wind as it rises and falls?…View →
What if normal is dead?, by Chun Kit "CK" Wong.The mainstream approach to a functionalist office design dates back to the industrial period.…View →
The Flawed Notion of a Separate Here and There, by Matt Roberts.played a pivotal role in the North Atlantic slave trade fostering strong connections with the southern US and Caribbean where raw cotton was produced; the exploitation of the British Empire had brought great wealth to the nation and financed an era of industrial…View →
Book Review: Being Ecological, by Amy Young.In light of the current pandemic, the term ‘post-COVID’ world has cropped up again and again within the architecture community.…View →
Nah That Won't Happen Here Again, by Nathan Döding.Major technological advancements were lost, and it was not until the industrial revolution that materials like concrete were rediscovered. Interestingly, it was the same industrial revolution that paved the way to ‘The War to end all wars’.…View →
Everyday, Listening, by Maja Liro.As a byproduct of our industrial society, noise is all around us, but we aren't always aware of the negative effects it can have on people's physical and mental health.…View →
Brexit and British Architecture, by Amy Young.In a post-Brexit society, there is expected to be both physical and non-physical implications for architecture and design. Physically, architecture has always had a close relationship to politics.…View →
Diamond in the Rough, Forever Young, by Jonas Althuis.During the 19th and 20th centuries, shipping and maritime industries brought prosperity, attracting huge numbers of migrants from surrounding regions to come work in the harbours and ship-building docks that were at the time still close to the city centre…View →
By Product, Reversibility, Tangible and Intangible Longevity , by Anouk Fontaine.But the industrial era may only be a parenthesis during which conflicts off-balanced practices and made the process of tabula rasa mainstream, as the increase in edifice transformations and reconversions picks back up on the practice common in the past…View →
The Archive, by Nathan Döding & Andre Joosse.“As a child, I always had an interest in industrial photography. Ever since my first visit to an abandoned shipyard near my home, the adrenaline rush didn’t stop. Almost weekly I pack my camera gear to get out and visit the abandoned world.…View →
Hope on water, by Sevince Bayrak.The main objective of the almost absurd image of a post-disaster living unit, sailing on the water, was to take attention to one point. Why do we have to build post-disaster housing on water?…View →
A public digital space at home, by Inez Margaux Van Oeveren.It went from a public place in society (archaic time) to a place for privacy (industrial time), where each family lives on its own. Now in the 21st century, also called the information society, the concept of home is still developing.…View →
Cheap Queens and Real Queens, by Minh Anh Nguyen.But in recent years, we’ve moved towards an era of post-ironic aesthetics – which I would define as “looking cheap, but with intention.”…View →
Stay, by Federico Ruiz.They haven’t done it since the Industrial revolution.”. “And there is something else about staying. You can be very comfortable here. And the fear of losing your comfort is crippling… then you will be too afraid to go back.”. Leave….…View →
Never Been Built, by Aimee Baars.The inner city was rapidly transforming from industrial to service-oriented. Most neighbourhoods were in poor condition and the population was in decline.…View →
Haunted Landscapes, by Maja Liro.The structure and shape of post-war Warsaw includes contradictions that make cohabitation of the ruins seem impossible at first.…View →
If not now, then when?, by Inez Margaux Van Oeveren & Gigi Altman.It would certainly be nice from the perspective of the (Industrial) Design and Architectural studies if we were to make the business community and governments realise that creative thinking is necessary for innovation, to anticipate the future; that not…View →
The Dutch Factor, by Federico Ruiz.Nonetheless, I believe that post-master programs are an interesting option to be explored. Their admission process, which focuses on the actual experience of students, could be open for high-level Dutch and European bachelor students.…View →