Kees Christiaanse

"Textbook spans 30 years of the well-known urban designer and architect Kees Christiaanse's thinking about cities. He is responsible for large urban projects, including Hamburg HafenCity, Rotterdam's waterfront revitalization and London's Olympic Legacy Plan. The collected texts range from charting the influence of the bicycle on his thinking about future mobility to the examination of dominant concepts and projects in the contemporary built environment. Illustrations of Christiaanse's sketches, personal notebook pages and watercolours complement this unique collection" d'après l'éditeur.

Collected Texts on the Built Environment 1990-2018

Kees Christiaanse: Textbook

Swiss Re is one of the leading reinsurance companies in the world. This book documents its built identity by looking at its eleven buildings in six locations (Zurich, Adliswil, R'schlikon, Munich, London, and New York). It illustrates this corporate architecture with sketches, plans, and photographs and brings it alive in interviews by Roderick H'nig with the participating architects. Bothe Richter Teherani, Meili und Peter, Norman Foster, Tilla Theus, Silvio Schmed, Schnebli Amann Menz, and St'cheli und Partner provide fascinating perspectives on how the firm?'s corporate culture came to architectural expression. This discourse is then continued and expanded in texts by Kees Christianse, Kerstin Hoeger, Jons Messedat, Elisabeth Samsonow, Saskia Sassen, and Philip Ursprung. The book focuses on a broad range of aspects ? including corporate identity, globalization, corporate urbanism, sustainability, and risk ? and relates them to the larger theme of corporate architecture.

Swiss Re's Corporate Architecture

Built Identity

Martina Baum

"It's always about each specific location, the people, and a vision. This is the message distilled from these portraits of 30 reused industrial areas. In a wide variety of places all round the globe, reinterpretations of the legacy of the industrial age are releasing tremendous potential energy and creativity - in the USA, Russia, Brazil and China just as much as in Europe. The book examines the background, protagonists and concepts involved and shows various strategies for reuse. In essays and interviews, specialists from both the theoretical and practical fields explain their findings and experiences. Dutch book designer Joost Grootens, well known for his self-explanatory 'infographics', has given the 30 projects a visual form allowing fascinating comparisons."--Publisher description.

Adaptive Reuse as a Resource for Sustainable Urban Development

City as Loft

Architects and Planners

Situation/KCAP

Jennifer Sigler

Tim Rieniets

Author information Contributors to part 1 Ash Amin, Marc Angelil, Regina Bittner, Stephen Cairns, Kees Christiaanse, Angelus Eisinger, Orhan Esen, Gerald Frug, Stephen Graham, Dieter Läpple, Mark Michaeli, Robert Neuwirth, Arnold Reijndorp, Tim Rieniets, Christian Salewski, Saskia Sassen, Peter Sloterdijk, Michael Zinganel. Contributors to part 2 Crimson Architectural Historians, Interboro, Stephen Cairns, Daliana Suryawinata, Philipp Misselwitz, Can Altay, Jörg Stollmann, Rainer Hehl, Bart Goldhoorn, Alexander Sverdlov, and many others.

Designing Coexistence

Open City

Documents both the built and the unbuilt home designs prepared for the Dedemsvaartweg Housing Festival organized by the city of The Hague.

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