Nederlands Architectuurinstituut

Koos Bosma

Helma Hellinga

This year the respected Dutch architecture journal "OASE" celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary. Over the years, "OASE" has evolved into an international resource in which a reflective and critical approach to architecture, urban development and landscape architecture is the mainstay. Its jubilee is being marked by a special, double-thick English-language edition of the journal that compiles all of its most important historical essays and background articles, making a great many key texts accessible to an international readership for the first time. This anthology affords an overview of the themes that have dominated architectural discourse in the Netherlands, Belgium and beyond over recent decades, set in a broader context by new texts by prominent architecture historians. Thus, this volume is an important source of information on developments in academic debate as well as professional practice in the fields of architecture, urban design and landscape architecture.

North-European City Planning, 1900-2000

Mastering the City

N. J. Habraken

Dorine van Hoogstraten

Martijn Vos

"'Home' represents a fundamental value in a person's life. Although many factors pertaining to his housing situation are beyond the occupant's control, he still attempts to create his own domestic domain, the finite center of a world in which he is free to be himself. As long ago as 1961, in his book 'Supports : An alternative to mass housing', John Habraken suggested a completely different approach to mass housing in the Netherlands. In an effort to offer the occupant of a mass-produced dwelling the opportunity to make a personal statement, he introduced the concept of a separation of support and infill. Habraken sees the support structure as the aspect of housing production that represents communal responsibility, and the infill as the aspect that stands for individual control. He formulated the 'support and infill' concept to introduce variation and personal authority into millions of dwellings. This alternative was to be put into practice by the Foundation for Architects' Research (SAR), which made Habraken its first director. The ambition of the SAR - to radically change the production methods of mass housing - led to concepts and rules of play that had repercussions on the entire building cycle, from architectural design to product development. All the achievements, disappointments, successes, and failures involved in the realization of an alternative to traditional housing construction can be discovered in this book. This is the first time that the intellectual heritage of the SAR has been brought together in book form and considered within a broader international perspective"--Bookjacket.

John Habraken and the SAR (1960-2000)

Housing for the Millions

Linde Egberts

Are you organising an international heritage project? Turning a so-called 'heritage revival' into a meaningful experience for the general public can be a challenge to historians, archaeologists, museum conservators and tourism professionals alike. This Companion to European Heritage Revivals offers inspiration and new ideas to those who want to engage a large, international audience in activities which bring the past to life. It offers a critical examination of the field’s basic concepts and discusses a vast array of 'heritage revival tools', including games, historical re-enactments, 3D-visualisations, films, television documentaries, spatial designs and most importantly, international heritage routes. Through many case studies, this book demonstrates how various aspects of heritage can be effectively presented by linking historical places and landscapes in a single revival to create a multifaceted but coherent whole. Above all, it shows the exceptional success achieved by projects which consistently focus on creating meaningful experiences together with individual users.

Companion to European Heritage Revivals

Koos Bosma

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