The Profession of Architect
Architecture is called the master of the arts but in the Netherlands the profession has ever since...
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Category: Publications
Meet the nominees of De Meester!
Organized by the Fleur Groenendijk Foundation in collaboration with Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design and under the guidance of Dikkie Scipio, the De Meester award serves to highlight and promote work of young architecture graduates in the Netherlands.
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Thank the Crisis
Machiavelli first said, “Never waste the opportunity offered by a good crisis.” Winston Churchill...
Read MoreIlse Mathijssen and Mint Ruimtelijk Ontwerp & THIS IS WAT
GLASS PAVILION ON THE MAAS BEAUTY IS AMORAL Around the world everyone who’s heard of Holland knows that the Netherlands has won the war against water, that the land lies below sea level and is a land of rivers. It is well-known...
Read MoreDominique Panhuysen wins with Containercampus, Bijlmerbajes en “Jailtown” Q3 2016
THE HUMAN FACTOR For years the Over-Amstel Penitentiary with its tower blocks, at 48 Wenckebachweg in Amsterdam – or the ‘Bijlmerbajes’ (Bijlmer lockup) as it was popularly known – was the most famous and infamous prison in the...
Read MoreThe triumph and demise of Wielewaal
Dikkie Scipio on the work of the fourth quarterly winner of 2015 Anne Beeksma The city centre of Rotterdam was bombed at the beginning of WWII and Rotterdam West was bombed in 1943. During the war several temporary housing...
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