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Cheap or Priceless?, by Ksenija Onufrijeva.Riga used to be an important centre of production of all kinds of wares that would be massively exported, with whole neighbourhoods built around clusters of factories.…View →
Changing the Narrative, by Elena Rossoni.Architecture practice Hybrid Space Lab takes a rather unique approach for the re-signification of the controversial site of.…View →
50 Shades of Clay, by Jonas Althuis.The use of brick is one of the reasons that there are so many century-old historic city centres in the Netherlands; bricks are robust. They don't rot, they're not flammable, they barely weaken over time.…View →
Bnieuws edition 53/04. Published January 2020.This has turned out to be as much constructive as inspirational, since we have re-introduced the "Streets of BK City", presenting opinions, thoughts and activities from students and staff in BK.…View →
Hope on water, by Sevince Bayrak.It has to be re-examined. But how? Is it possible for a profession which has been rallied by magnetizing people to suddenly adapt to the “new normal?…View →
Writing Urban Places, by Nicole van Roij.The target explores historical narratives, oral history and literary cultural heritage in the (re)construction of urban identities. 2.…View →
Inside 'Inside' reflections on collapse, by Stefan Gzyl.He uses the tools of progress and social status to survive, extend his life and plot his escape.…View →
An Introduction to The Invisible Architect, by Inez Van Oeveren.There is a significant gap in research and statistics on how women use cities, offices, homes, or streets and how man uses them. Think, for example, of snow ploughing on roads. Usually, you would think that is not at all sexist.…View →
Tracing Archaeology, by Nicole van Roij.After the 1960s, structuralist and symbolic anthropology shifted the view on artefacts from ‘good to use’ objects to, reciting the words of Lévi-Strauss, ‘goods to think with’.…View →
Animal Architecture, by Aimee Baars.In most cases, after collecting surrounding material, the hen uses her beak to tuck the construction elements alongside or beneath her, this is defined as ‘sideways building’.…View →
Hybrid Timber Construction, by Krittika Agarwal.The historical success story in timber construction and abundant local availability creates hope for the region, giving us a strong base to re-investigate.…View →
Soviet Dreams, by Jānis Bērziņš.Many years after the war millions of people were still living in fast-built wooden barracks without drainage, tap-water, and with toilets on the street, or in communal apartments in pre-war buildings that used to belong to bourgeois but now housed a family…View →
Never Been Built, by Aimee Baars.Alsop used painting as his base for architecture - he started designing without even glancing at the required programme and worked intuitively.…View →
The Berlage Questionnaire: Francesca Torzo, by Maria Christopoulou and Georgia Katsi.De re aedificatoria. They are brilliant and full of humor; and I accompany them with Vasari’s. Le Vite. Your idea of earthly happiness.…View →
Bnieuws edition 56/03. Published January 2023.As a new year surprises us yet again, and deadlines start piling up, we find ourselves re-evaluating old habits in yearly tradition of flaw-searching.…View →
Ark[s], by Aikaterina Myserli.The idea originates from the on-going use of large Greek passenger and cruise ships for the transportation of refugees from the Eastern Aegean Islands to Athens.…View →
Misleading Memories, by Ieva Davulyte .For example in public institutions, such as banks, values of trust, reliability, and security are expressed through the use of grandiose spaces and marble, which provide a feeling that this institution is going to last.…View →
Dreamed cities as neurodivergent cities, by Oliwia Jackowska.And even though we lose interest eventually, as it might seem to be just an empty fascination leading nowhere, the scholars have been trying to understand dreams for centuries and use them in psychological diagnosis and therapy.…View →
Back to the cinema. Please. , by Alessandro Rognoni.Too often we exploit terms such as “appropriation of space”, “user-driven”, “bottom-up”, or other tactics that imply a degree of responsibility given to the public within the practice of urbanism.…View →
Titanium White, by Zuzanna Sliwinska.In fact, we barely ever look at historical artefacts in their original state as pieces stored at the museums and galleries, (especially) paintings require high-level restoration and, in their fragile state, are almost entirely re-painted using the exact…View →
Are You Mad?, by Sem Verwey.Because that is what we, designers/operators/creators of the built environment do; architects, urbanists, landscapers, managers all engage with space, intervene with it and (re)create it.…View →
A Lack of Exposure, by Alessandro Rognoni.The honesty of Lacaton&Vassal’s photography re-establishes a personal and intimate way of treating expectation.…View →
Bootleg Paradise, by Tuyen Le.As the music culture flourished, in the 1960s, bootleg re-entered the scene as informal audio or video recordings of the originals, usually unknown to the artists/record labels.…View →