Ed van Hinte

Smart Architecture

Adriaan Beukers

Flying Lightness paints a picture of a heroic century of aircraft development against the background of steadily increasing travel speeds. Since the Wright brothers made their first brief flight over 100 years ago, aircraft construction seems to have become stuck in a rut. Today, rapid advances in the field of composites are opening up new possibilities for optimizing aircraft configurations and revising structural principles. Composites are combinations of two or more physically distinct materials that enhance each other's properties. The new modes of system integration and improved structural quality they offer may even produce a 30 percent more efficient 'blended wing' passenger plane. Flying wings, once just a footnote in the history of air transport, could well become the aircraft of the 21st century. Best Dutch Book Design 2005.

Promises for Structural Elegance

Flying Lightness

This book aims to map out ways of designing and planning products so that their value is sustained and they can be kept in use for a longer time. It tells the story of Vivian, a name that represents any product. The life oF Vivian is traced from preconception, through development, purchase and long period of use, right up to oblivion. Vivian's story is embedded in the information and experiences that the Eternally Yours Foundation has gathered over the past years, culminating in the 'Time in design' conference organized in October 2003 in cooperation with the Long Now Foundation. This book includes most of the lectures by, among many others, Ezio Manzini, Brian Eno, Gustaf Beumer and John Thackara - introduction.

Time in Design : Product, Value, Sustenance

Eternally Yours

Bruno Ninaber van Eyben

Wim Crouwel

Through classic, powerful black and white photographs, most of which were taken specifically for this book, attention is not only paid to Ninaber's products, but also his vision, mentality, inspirations and fascinations.

With Compliments

Bruno Ninaber Van Eyben

Visions on Product Endurance

Conny Bakker

Marcel den Hollander

Yvo Zijlstra

Product Design for Circular Business Models

Products that Last

Siem Haffmans

Marjolein Van Gelder

Products that Flow provides inspiration to design circular alternatives for fast moving consumer goods. On the basis of examples and cases, the book describes circular business models and design strategies that inspire to move towards a more circular economy without waste.

Circular Business Models and Design Strategies for Fast Moving Consumer Goods

Products That Flow

Ineke Hans

The work of industrial designer Ineke Hans presented in a (black) setting. 'No colour is just a colour, especially back'.

Design Dilemmas

Black Bazaar

Césare Peeren

Jan Jongert

Cable reels, window frames, washing machines, diapers, crates, carpet tiles, double glazing panels or old buses--you could recycle, discard or even burn all of these things. The other option is to put them to good use: 'superuse.' This is happening everywhere, albeit on a modest scale. Architects apply these materials in their designs. "Superuse" is a practical and inspiring book about constructing new buildings with surplus materials. It was initiated by Recyclicity, a Rotterdam foundation dedicated to such possibilities. Copiously illustrated with examples from the Netherlands and elsewhere, "Superuse" presents ideas for tools and methods for architects and superuse scouts such as the 'harvest map' of everything reusable within a given distance of a building site. "Superuse" renders the superfluous superfluous.

Constructing New Architecture by Shortcutting Material Flows

Superuse

This book is an appeal to start designing minimum weight applications to seriously save energy. It also offers practical advice for doing so. 'Designing Lightness' entertains the reader with its free associations, creating unexpected crosslinks between the world of composite materials and structural solutions. It therefore precedes the conventional approach to sustainability, which focuses on symptoms rather than causes of environmental overload. The book is of interest to all designing disciplines, combining packaging, vehicles, skyscrapers and nanoscale phenomena.00Adriaan Beukers is an emeritus professor in Lightweight Structures. Ed van Hinte is a writer and award-winning critic with a design and engineering background. The book is the extended and improved sequel to their book Lightness, which appeared in 1998.

Structures for Saving Energy

Designing Lightness

The story of 'Lightness' is not just about airplanes, or composite materials, although they play an important role. It really deals with the building structure of all things made and grown. It is essentially, a book on technology, it will you to look at structures more inensley and see them in a different light.

The Inevitable Renaissance of Minimum Energy Structures

Lightness

Uitgeverij De Balie

Young Designers Trigger Industries Trigger Young Designers 1996

Richard Hutten

Cette monographie d'un des plus fameux designer hollandais contemporain, Richard Hutten, présente ses créations d'objets, de mobilier et d'espaces.

Taking Form, Making Form

Bas Princen

"New connoisseurs take the opportunities offered by the typically Dutch phenomenon of landscape being continuously adapted to changing demands, always with temporary leftovers awaiting their turn for utilitarian recycling. New ways of thinking about landscape design originate from this specialist landscape use. Bas Princen's arguments take the form of superb photography. The pictures produce awareness about the complex qualities that construct contemporary landscape, such as accessibility, wind direction, water currents and communication networks. In addition the use of certain products, such as kites, mountain bikes and GPS monitors has a bearing on the way in which landscape is understood. Bas Princen enters these landscapes with the slowness, sharpness and precision of a large-format view camera. Although he has a keen eye for user interpretations and has produces over 40 awesome and puzzling pictures, Artificial Arcadia is mainly a book about landscape and its design. Texts by Lars Lerup, Bart Lootsma, Wim Cuyvers, Jeff Derksen and Dirk Sijmons reflect on the photographs and present different views on landscapes in transition" -- Publiarq: publicaciones arquitectura y arte.

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