ACSA: Visitors Guide: Randstad Holland

This publication is intended for American architects, who in the context of the Delft ACSA Conference 1992 would like to catch a glimpse of Dutch architecture. But at the same time it is a good guide for everyone who wants a one-day introduction to the urban agglomaration of the Netherlands. The Randstad is an attenuated urban area which stretch es from Utrecht to Rotterdam, incorporating Het Gooi, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Leiden, Den Haag, and Delft. In contrast to conurbations like London or Paris, the Randstad has no single centre. Instead, this 'ring city' winds its way round the meadows of its Green Heart. With its principal cities, harbours, and Schiphol airport, the Randstad is the economie centre of the Netherlands. At present the Randstad has approximately 2,5 million dwellings for a population of roughly 6 million people. As the area expands over the next 25 years, the population is expected to increase to 7 million, an increase of 17 %, while the number of dwellings are expected to increase by 40 %. The Netherlands comprises an area of roughly 160 by 240 kilometres. If you subdivide the Netherlands into six squares, each 80 kilometres square, three squares long and two squares wide, the Randstad, together with its Green Heart, occupies the middle square in the western row. Of course, dividing the country into the Randstad and the remainder of the Netherlands is not the only available manner of subdivision. It is also possible to split the Netherlands into a Northern Wing and a Southern Wing. This configuration yields a different picture: no longer one of an urban agglomeration in the middle of the country, but rather two extended urban concentrations extending across the breadth of the Netherlands and comprising both the coastal areas and the hinterland. Nonetheless, the Dutch government considers the Randstad configuration to be the more adequate and the more fruitful concept for planning decisions from the viewpoint of development on an international scale. The excursion takes you through various typically Dutch landscapes such as dunes and polders. The buildings which are visited illustrate mainly the Dutch architecture of this century.ArchitectureArchitectur

ACSA: Conference book: Design Studies

In recent years, the Faculty of Architecture, Housing, Urban Design and Planning has been undergoing large changes in the training and research program mes. These changes followon from the signals received from professional practice, but above all from the desire of staff and students to design programma and organization in such a way that they play along with new developments in the field of architecture in an international context. As in 1992 the University of Technology at Delft is celebrating its 150 years in existence, and ACSA was planning to organise a congress in collaboration with a European university, it was decided to organise this congress as a collaboration between ACSA and the Faculty in Delft. After careful consideration it was also decided to place the emphasis in this congress on research in relation to architectural education. We are aware that the time is long gone when the designing of buildings, cities and landscapes could develop without proper reflection from designing research. Ends and means must be weil attuned to each other, as weil as the various aspects of function, structure and form, and of pattern and process. The professional field is renewing itself through the development of new materials and construction techniques, new aids such as the computer, and new problems such as the growth of eities and mobility, environmental protection and energy saving, and the confrontation of rich and poor. It leads to new tasks for the architect and the accompanying research must be newly formulated. Partly as a consequence of these problems, the congress is set up along 3 main lines: designing research in the field of Architecture and Urban Planning; designing research in the field of Building Technology; architectural research in connection with computer-backed designing. For the Faculty of Architecture, Housing, Urban Design and Planning these themes are elements of a new research programma which was started up last year. They form a foundation for the main subject of Architecture, Housing, Urban Design and Building Technology. Our faculty therefore regards this congress as a welcome opportunity to achieve a better foundation and execution of design research. And in this way also, a more intensive cooperation with European and American Architecture faculties.UrbanismArchitectur

Onderzoeksatelier Hybrides: Stedelijke architectuur tussen centrum en periferie

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Architectuurfragmenten: Typologie, Stijl en Ontwerpmethoden

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Beoordeling van vorm

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Bibliotheken: Studentenplannen herfst 1998

Rond het thema 'vorm en functie' - het meest gebruikte en bruikbare begrippenpaar uit de architectuur - hebben beginnende tweede jaarsstudenten in een periode van acht weken geleerd de voorwaarden voor een ontwerp onder woorden te brengen en zich een weg te banen uit een veelheid aan informatie naar de praktijk van het ontwerpen zelf. Vanuit een gegeven programma van eisen is een alleen nog in prestatietermen geformuleerde vraag omgezet in een (bouw)vorm.ArchitectureArchitectur

Architectonische Studies 6: Verbeelde beweging

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Architektonische studies 3

Studenteneditie (Dis)kontinuiteit van het moderne Nostalgisch Utopia? Het ordenen en verbeelden van architektuur Woongebieden en woongebouwen; de emotie in het ontwerp Fantasie of verbeeldingArchitectureArchitectur