Books by Dirk van den Heuvel
Jaap Bakema and the Open Society is the first extensive publication on the Dutch architect Jaap B... more Jaap Bakema and the Open Society is the first extensive publication on the Dutch architect Jaap Bakema, his ideas and ideals for society at large and the remarkable production of his office Van den Broek and Bakema. Throughout the post-WWII decades Bakema was inspired to build for a democratic and open society. His body of work, his teaching and writing, and his international presence are testimony to the vicissitudes of the welfare state and the roles played by architecture and planning in its construction. His ideas on the open society are extremely relevant to the current debates about how to involve citizens in city building and creating alternative systems to crumbling welfare states. This historical document highlights both his most relevant and less known work through texts, archival materials and photography. The book includes internationally acclaimed and lesser known work through Bakema’s texts (some of which are published in English for the first time), accompanied by a rich, visual documentation from the archives. The book also contains interviews with contemporaries, who worked with him in different contexts, and essays that critically probe the socially engaged aspects of his work and the contexts in which they came into being.
Compiled and edited by Dirk van den Heuvel. With contributions by Brita Bakema, Christine Boyer, Lard Buurman, Dick van Gameren, John Habraken, Carola Hein, Herman Hertzberger, Frans Hooykaas, Arnold Reijndorp, Izak Salomons, Johannes Schwartz, Jorrit Sipkes, and Carel Weeber. Graphic design by Jaap van Triest. Publisher is Archis, Amsterdam.
The book can be ordered with Idea Books, Amsterdam: https://www.ideabooks.nl/architecture-landscape/9789077966570-jaap-bakema-and-the-open-society
This issue of Footprint looks into the latest developments in queer theory and the related, newly... more This issue of Footprint looks into the latest developments in queer theory and the related, newly emerging field of trans studies, and how they might inform and even reconceptualise architecture. Even though the introduction of queer theory into architecture dates back to the 1990s, there is still fairly little literature available specific to architecture. Most contemporary research into queer and trans theory happens in the fields of cultural studies, literature and the arts and social geography, whereas a cross-disciplinary connection between architecture, urban design and queer theory seems only logical from the point of view that architecture and urban design are instrumental in the formation of social and political identities. Additionally, queer and trans theory offers the possibility of opening up the disciplinary straightjacket of architecture: it engenders a radical reconceptualisation of the architectural discipline and its institutions in that queer and trans theory unsettles any conception of architecture as an embodiment of essentialist categories, be it identities, forms and types, just as it disturbs the mythologies of authorship and autonomy. Concerned with radical inclusiveness, this issue proposes to use ‘queering’ and ‘transing’ as lenses to more generally critique ‘exclusive’ conceptions of architecture, as well as mutually exclusive container concepts of spaces and bodies. What could architecture do, if we would leave behind essentialist approaches? Would it be possible to ‘undo’ the body of architecture and architecture theory and to allow for new figurations of knowledge, to ‘queer’ our understanding of architecture as a field engaged in consistent transformation, the material interface of processes of becoming?
This publication is open access, and downloadable from the TU Delft website:
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Authors: Xenia Kokoula, Athina Angelopoulou, Tim Gough, Dan Snyder, Andreas Angelidakis, Colin Ripley, Joel Sanders, Brady Burroughs, Katarina Bonnevier, Hélène Frichot, Katja Grillner
Issue's editors: Robert Gorny and Dirk van den Heuvel
In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War, governments acro... more In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War, governments across Western Europe set out ambitious programmes for social welfare and the redistribution of wealth that aimed to improve the everyday lives of their citizens. Many of these welfare state programmes - housing, schools, new towns, cultural and leisure centres – involved not just construction but a new approach to architectural design, in which the welfare objectives of these state-funded programmes were delineated and debated. The impact on architects and architectural design was profound and far-reaching, with welfare state projects moving centre-stage in architectural discourse not just in Europe but worldwide.
This is the first book to explore the architecture of the welfare state in Western Europe from an international perspective. With chapters covering Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden and the UK, the book explores the complex role played by architecture in the formation and development of the welfare state in both theory and practice.
Themes include:
- the role of the built environment in the welfare state as a political project
- the colonial dimension of European welfare state architecture and its ‘export’ to Africa and Asia
- the role of welfare state projects in promoting consumer culture and economic growth
- the picture of the collective produced by welfare state architecture
- the role of architectural innovation in the welfare state
- the role of the architect, as opposed to construction companies and others, in determining what was built
- the relationship between architectural and social theory
- the role of internal institutional critique and the counterculture.
With contributions by: Tom Avermaete, Eve Blau, Nicholas Bullock, Miles Glendinning, Janina Gosseye, Hilde Heynen, Caroline Maniaque-Benton, Helena Mattsson, Luca Molinari, Simon Pepper, Michelle Provoost, Lukasz Stanek, Mark Swenarton, Florian Urban and Dirk van den Heuvel.
Co-editors Mark Swenarton and Tom Avermaete. For more information and to order visit the publisher's website:
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A complete version can be downloaded from the TU Delft repository:
doi:10.4233/uuid:7e9d6f1f-9b... more A complete version can be downloaded from the TU Delft repository:
doi:10.4233/uuid:7e9d6f1f-9b3e-4b85-a4ce-72f7eca919ba
The first comprehensive history of Team 10 and its core group of architects: Jaap Bakema, Georges... more The first comprehensive history of Team 10 and its core group of architects: Jaap Bakema, Georges Candilis, Giancarlo De Carlo, Alison and Peter Smithson, Aldo van Eyck, and Shadrach Woods, and many more.
Most texts of the book and the historic timeline are also available online through the website: Team10online.org
Including research papers of three separate conferences.
Dirk van den Heuvel, Maarten Mesman, Wido Quist, Bert Lemmens (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th int... more Dirk van den Heuvel, Maarten Mesman, Wido Quist, Bert Lemmens (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th international DOCOMOMO Conference in Rotterdam in 2008 (2008, IOS Press Amsterdam), 549 p., ISBN 978-1-58603-917-2.
Conservation of architecture - and the conservation of Modern architecture in particular - has assumed new challenges. Rather than attempting to return a Modern building to its resumed original state, the challenge of these proceedings is to revalue the essence of the manifold manifestations of Modern architecture and redefine its meanings in a rapidly changing world of digital revolution, worldwide mobility and environmental awareness. This volume aims to provide a variety of platforms for the exchange of ideas and experience. A large, international group of architects, historians, scholars, preservationists and other parties involved in the processes of preserving, renovating and transforming Modern buildings has been invited to investigate the paradox of the Modern monument, and to reflect on the manifold dilemmas of change and continuity. The general theme is elaborated through five sub-themes. The sub-theme ‘Change and Continuity’ addresses the tensions between change and continuity from a historical-theoretical perspective. ‘Restructuring Cities and Landscapes’ focuses on the larger scale of city and landscape, while ‘Shifts in Programme and Flexibility’ draws attention to the scale of the building or building complex, and questions limits of re-use and flexibility. The fourth sub-theme deals with education and the fifth sub-theme ‘Progress, Technology and Sustainability’ considers specific issues of techniques and materials.
Published in Spanish with Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona
This book paints a portrait of 50 years of Dutch architectural education by looking into the educ... more This book paints a portrait of 50 years of Dutch architectural education by looking into the educational practice of two teachers of architecture, Max Risselada and Hans Tupker. Follow the link for a full download.
Papers by Dirk van den Heuvel
The text presents a discussion of possible connections between the ideas of Erik Rietveld and con... more The text presents a discussion of possible connections between the ideas of Erik Rietveld and concepts of relationality and materiality in modern architecture, with a special focus on Dutch Structuralism and the New Brutalism.
Footprint, 2019
To deconstruct the still hegemonic narrative of free market ideologists in the realm of housing, ... more To deconstruct the still hegemonic narrative of free market ideologists in the realm of housing, this article looks at the provocative position of the German-British architect Patrik Schumacher, director of Zaha Hadid Architects. Schumacher’s 2016 lecture on housing at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin, in which he claims that only wholesale privatisation of urbanism would solve the housing crisis, is scrutinised on the two interrelated concepts of the free market and state intervention.
Schumacher’s lecture is analysed within the context of the current housing crisis in the United Kingdom and London in particular, which dates back to the years of the Tory government of Margaret Thatcher. Additionally, the aftermath of the banking and credit crisis of 2008 brought the further breakdown of welfare state arrangements under the politics of so-called austerity. Lastly, the housing situation worsened due to the disruptive rise of the creative classes as depicted by urban sociologist Richard Florida.
Schumacher’s position is interpreted in the tradition of the ideas of philosopher Ayn Rand and Nietzschean master-servant morality. A connection with the ideas of Rem Koolhaas is identified, in particular those expounded in his book Delirious New York and with Koolhaas’ conception of the architect as a surfer as well as a hostage, who is at the mercy of larger forces he cannot control.
The argument is concluded by referencing a number of renowned alternatives to a delusional free market approach to solve the housing crisis, namely social housing projects from continental Europe. Ultimately, the importance of striking a balance between private opportunity and public planning is emphasised.
This essay revisits the debates on the New Brutalism as it emerged in Great Britain in the early ... more This essay revisits the debates on the New Brutalism as it emerged in Great Britain in the early 1950s. The shifting positions of its main propagators, Alison and Peter Smithson and Reyner Banham, are scrutinised through a re-reading of the polemics of the period and its aftermath. Conventionally, Banham's ground-breaking essay of 1955 ‘The New Brutalism’ is used as a starting-point for a unified history of New Brutalism. However, as it turns out, the Smithsons and Banham held very different opinions about the direction of the New Brutalist project. Whereas Banham advocated an integration between architecture and the latest technologies, the Smithsons sought to combine modern architecture with a multiplicity of tendencies within British culture, reaching back to Arts and Crafts concepts, among others. To open up the discourse and to measure the various shifts, the essay discusses the concept of ‘Image’, identified by Banham as one of the key concepts of New Brutalism, in relation to the various statements made by the Smithsons. In contrast to Banham, the Smithsons defined New Brutalism by laying emphasis on the material qualities of architecture and the aspects of process and making in architectural construction. This was related to their ambition to redesign the system of relationships between the everyday, domesticity, labour and the larger society. In short, it was a different ‘way of life’ that was behind the Smithsons' project for New Brutalism.
Published online with the Journal of Architecture, April 2015 with copyright limitations. Available through the TU Delft repository: https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:062a1bed-804e-4af6-8a30-5e5a9122002d?collection=research
Publication on Dutch Structuralism in architecture that accompanied the exhibition at Het Nieuwe ... more Publication on Dutch Structuralism in architecture that accompanied the exhibition at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. Contributions by Guus Beumer, Piet Blom, Van den Broek and Bakema, John Habraken, Joop Hardy, Herman Hertzberger, Dirk van den Heuvel, Lada Hrsak, Arjen Oosterman, Francis Strauven, Piet Vollaard.
Introduction to the work and ideas of Jaap Bakema (1914-1981), leading voice of Team 10 and partn... more Introduction to the work and ideas of Jaap Bakema (1914-1981), leading voice of Team 10 and partner of the Rotterdam based architecture firm Van den Broek & Bakema, one of the most advanced architectural offices of the post-war period in the Netherlands. Publication of the Dutch contribution to the 14th edition of the Venice architecture biennale. Co-edited with Volume / Arjen Oosterman and Brendan Cormier, with contributions by Guus Beumer, Dirk van den Heuvel, Luca Molinari, Lukasz Stanek, Jorrit Sipkes, Failed Architecture, photos by Johannes Schwartz, design by Experimental Jetset
With Tahl Kaminer. Introduction to Footprint issue no. 8, 2011, with contributions by Isabel Do... more With Tahl Kaminer. Introduction to Footprint issue no. 8, 2011, with contributions by Isabel Doucet, Ross K. Elfline, Deborah Fausch, Maros Krivy, Nelson Mota, Michael Müller, and Fernando Quesada. A free download is available here: http://www.footprintjournal.org/issues/show/defying-the-avant-garde-logic-architecture-populism-and-mass-culture
Published in Delft Architectural Studies on Housing - DASH, Rotterdam 2010 (nai010publishers); se... more Published in Delft Architectural Studies on Housing - DASH, Rotterdam 2010 (nai010publishers); see also the website: www.dash-journal.com
A discussion of Piet Blom's work in relation to the late twentieth century concept of 'superstruc... more A discussion of Piet Blom's work in relation to the late twentieth century concept of 'superstructures' and 'megastructure' in architectural design, more specifically the Team 10 discourse. Published in Delft Architectural Studies on Housing - DASH, Rotterdam 2011 (nai010 Publishers); see also the website: www.dash-journal.com
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Books by Dirk van den Heuvel
Compiled and edited by Dirk van den Heuvel. With contributions by Brita Bakema, Christine Boyer, Lard Buurman, Dick van Gameren, John Habraken, Carola Hein, Herman Hertzberger, Frans Hooykaas, Arnold Reijndorp, Izak Salomons, Johannes Schwartz, Jorrit Sipkes, and Carel Weeber. Graphic design by Jaap van Triest. Publisher is Archis, Amsterdam.
The book can be ordered with Idea Books, Amsterdam: https://www.ideabooks.nl/architecture-landscape/9789077966570-jaap-bakema-and-the-open-society
This publication is open access, and downloadable from the TU Delft website:
https://doi.org/10.7480/footprint.11.2
Authors: Xenia Kokoula, Athina Angelopoulou, Tim Gough, Dan Snyder, Andreas Angelidakis, Colin Ripley, Joel Sanders, Brady Burroughs, Katarina Bonnevier, Hélène Frichot, Katja Grillner
Issue's editors: Robert Gorny and Dirk van den Heuvel
This is the first book to explore the architecture of the welfare state in Western Europe from an international perspective. With chapters covering Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden and the UK, the book explores the complex role played by architecture in the formation and development of the welfare state in both theory and practice.
Themes include:
- the role of the built environment in the welfare state as a political project
- the colonial dimension of European welfare state architecture and its ‘export’ to Africa and Asia
- the role of welfare state projects in promoting consumer culture and economic growth
- the picture of the collective produced by welfare state architecture
- the role of architectural innovation in the welfare state
- the role of the architect, as opposed to construction companies and others, in determining what was built
- the relationship between architectural and social theory
- the role of internal institutional critique and the counterculture.
With contributions by: Tom Avermaete, Eve Blau, Nicholas Bullock, Miles Glendinning, Janina Gosseye, Hilde Heynen, Caroline Maniaque-Benton, Helena Mattsson, Luca Molinari, Simon Pepper, Michelle Provoost, Lukasz Stanek, Mark Swenarton, Florian Urban and Dirk van den Heuvel.
Co-editors Mark Swenarton and Tom Avermaete. For more information and to order visit the publisher's website:
http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415725408/
doi:10.4233/uuid:7e9d6f1f-9b3e-4b85-a4ce-72f7eca919ba
Most texts of the book and the historic timeline are also available online through the website: Team10online.org
Including research papers of three separate conferences.
Conservation of architecture - and the conservation of Modern architecture in particular - has assumed new challenges. Rather than attempting to return a Modern building to its resumed original state, the challenge of these proceedings is to revalue the essence of the manifold manifestations of Modern architecture and redefine its meanings in a rapidly changing world of digital revolution, worldwide mobility and environmental awareness. This volume aims to provide a variety of platforms for the exchange of ideas and experience. A large, international group of architects, historians, scholars, preservationists and other parties involved in the processes of preserving, renovating and transforming Modern buildings has been invited to investigate the paradox of the Modern monument, and to reflect on the manifold dilemmas of change and continuity. The general theme is elaborated through five sub-themes. The sub-theme ‘Change and Continuity’ addresses the tensions between change and continuity from a historical-theoretical perspective. ‘Restructuring Cities and Landscapes’ focuses on the larger scale of city and landscape, while ‘Shifts in Programme and Flexibility’ draws attention to the scale of the building or building complex, and questions limits of re-use and flexibility. The fourth sub-theme deals with education and the fifth sub-theme ‘Progress, Technology and Sustainability’ considers specific issues of techniques and materials.
Papers by Dirk van den Heuvel
Schumacher’s lecture is analysed within the context of the current housing crisis in the United Kingdom and London in particular, which dates back to the years of the Tory government of Margaret Thatcher. Additionally, the aftermath of the banking and credit crisis of 2008 brought the further breakdown of welfare state arrangements under the politics of so-called austerity. Lastly, the housing situation worsened due to the disruptive rise of the creative classes as depicted by urban sociologist Richard Florida.
Schumacher’s position is interpreted in the tradition of the ideas of philosopher Ayn Rand and Nietzschean master-servant morality. A connection with the ideas of Rem Koolhaas is identified, in particular those expounded in his book Delirious New York and with Koolhaas’ conception of the architect as a surfer as well as a hostage, who is at the mercy of larger forces he cannot control.
The argument is concluded by referencing a number of renowned alternatives to a delusional free market approach to solve the housing crisis, namely social housing projects from continental Europe. Ultimately, the importance of striking a balance between private opportunity and public planning is emphasised.
Published online with the Journal of Architecture, April 2015 with copyright limitations. Available through the TU Delft repository: https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:062a1bed-804e-4af6-8a30-5e5a9122002d?collection=research
Compiled and edited by Dirk van den Heuvel. With contributions by Brita Bakema, Christine Boyer, Lard Buurman, Dick van Gameren, John Habraken, Carola Hein, Herman Hertzberger, Frans Hooykaas, Arnold Reijndorp, Izak Salomons, Johannes Schwartz, Jorrit Sipkes, and Carel Weeber. Graphic design by Jaap van Triest. Publisher is Archis, Amsterdam.
The book can be ordered with Idea Books, Amsterdam: https://www.ideabooks.nl/architecture-landscape/9789077966570-jaap-bakema-and-the-open-society
This publication is open access, and downloadable from the TU Delft website:
https://doi.org/10.7480/footprint.11.2
Authors: Xenia Kokoula, Athina Angelopoulou, Tim Gough, Dan Snyder, Andreas Angelidakis, Colin Ripley, Joel Sanders, Brady Burroughs, Katarina Bonnevier, Hélène Frichot, Katja Grillner
Issue's editors: Robert Gorny and Dirk van den Heuvel
This is the first book to explore the architecture of the welfare state in Western Europe from an international perspective. With chapters covering Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden and the UK, the book explores the complex role played by architecture in the formation and development of the welfare state in both theory and practice.
Themes include:
- the role of the built environment in the welfare state as a political project
- the colonial dimension of European welfare state architecture and its ‘export’ to Africa and Asia
- the role of welfare state projects in promoting consumer culture and economic growth
- the picture of the collective produced by welfare state architecture
- the role of architectural innovation in the welfare state
- the role of the architect, as opposed to construction companies and others, in determining what was built
- the relationship between architectural and social theory
- the role of internal institutional critique and the counterculture.
With contributions by: Tom Avermaete, Eve Blau, Nicholas Bullock, Miles Glendinning, Janina Gosseye, Hilde Heynen, Caroline Maniaque-Benton, Helena Mattsson, Luca Molinari, Simon Pepper, Michelle Provoost, Lukasz Stanek, Mark Swenarton, Florian Urban and Dirk van den Heuvel.
Co-editors Mark Swenarton and Tom Avermaete. For more information and to order visit the publisher's website:
http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415725408/
doi:10.4233/uuid:7e9d6f1f-9b3e-4b85-a4ce-72f7eca919ba
Most texts of the book and the historic timeline are also available online through the website: Team10online.org
Including research papers of three separate conferences.
Conservation of architecture - and the conservation of Modern architecture in particular - has assumed new challenges. Rather than attempting to return a Modern building to its resumed original state, the challenge of these proceedings is to revalue the essence of the manifold manifestations of Modern architecture and redefine its meanings in a rapidly changing world of digital revolution, worldwide mobility and environmental awareness. This volume aims to provide a variety of platforms for the exchange of ideas and experience. A large, international group of architects, historians, scholars, preservationists and other parties involved in the processes of preserving, renovating and transforming Modern buildings has been invited to investigate the paradox of the Modern monument, and to reflect on the manifold dilemmas of change and continuity. The general theme is elaborated through five sub-themes. The sub-theme ‘Change and Continuity’ addresses the tensions between change and continuity from a historical-theoretical perspective. ‘Restructuring Cities and Landscapes’ focuses on the larger scale of city and landscape, while ‘Shifts in Programme and Flexibility’ draws attention to the scale of the building or building complex, and questions limits of re-use and flexibility. The fourth sub-theme deals with education and the fifth sub-theme ‘Progress, Technology and Sustainability’ considers specific issues of techniques and materials.
Schumacher’s lecture is analysed within the context of the current housing crisis in the United Kingdom and London in particular, which dates back to the years of the Tory government of Margaret Thatcher. Additionally, the aftermath of the banking and credit crisis of 2008 brought the further breakdown of welfare state arrangements under the politics of so-called austerity. Lastly, the housing situation worsened due to the disruptive rise of the creative classes as depicted by urban sociologist Richard Florida.
Schumacher’s position is interpreted in the tradition of the ideas of philosopher Ayn Rand and Nietzschean master-servant morality. A connection with the ideas of Rem Koolhaas is identified, in particular those expounded in his book Delirious New York and with Koolhaas’ conception of the architect as a surfer as well as a hostage, who is at the mercy of larger forces he cannot control.
The argument is concluded by referencing a number of renowned alternatives to a delusional free market approach to solve the housing crisis, namely social housing projects from continental Europe. Ultimately, the importance of striking a balance between private opportunity and public planning is emphasised.
Published online with the Journal of Architecture, April 2015 with copyright limitations. Available through the TU Delft repository: https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:062a1bed-804e-4af6-8a30-5e5a9122002d?collection=research
The focus is on transmedial traffic between paper drawing and digital modelling in architecture.
Deadline is Monday 29 August, 2016.
All necessary information, contact details etc. can be found in the available download.