Housing pressure, climate adaptation and material scarcity are forcing designers to reconsider assumptions that once seemed permanent.
Talking with a new generation of material researchers.
Architecture, design and public life viewed in context.
The city's identity comes partly from its willingness to keep changing.
Floor area matters, but organisation can matter almost as much.
Few objects reveal construction decisions as clearly as a chair.
Looking at the small negotiations taking place in public space.
Demolition becomes a very different process when components retain value.
Hierarchy is a spatial idea as much as a typographic one.
Longer essays for subjects that cannot be reduced to a caption.
What happens when architecture is designed for one use but expected to survive for a century?
Clarity remains useful, but sterile perfection is losing its appeal.
Why cleaning, repair and replacement deserve a place in the creative process.
“The most interesting material is sometimes the one nobody wanted yesterday.”
A conversation about urban mining, second-life components and why designers need to understand supply chains as carefully as colour and form.
The shift toward reuse changes authorship too. Designers work with dimensions, quantities and imperfections that already exist rather than specifying everything from a blank page.
A growing reading list from Dutch Modern Journal.