Architecture Bulletin 01
Essays on the designed environment

Design: Hansje van Halem, Illustrated (colour and b/w), Perfect binding, 80 pages, Size: 15 x 21.1 cm
English edition, ISBN 90-5662-544-6 / 978-90-5662-544-3, € 16.50
Also available in Dutch edition, ISBN 90-5662-517-9 / 978-90-5662-517-7, € 16.50

The Netherlands Architecture Institute´s Architecture Bulletin brings stories about the present, future and history of the designed environment twice a year.
It presents essays in text and image: subjective arguments complemented by personal reflections about architecture, about what is and is not happening (but probably should), and about the discourse on this (how that is developing or should develop). In short, these essays are about the potential meaning of architecture, whether that pertains to strategies for reconstruction, as in New Orleans, or concerns a blind spot for the past, as demonstrated by the difficult debate about modernity and tradition - vis-à-vis Team 10´s ideas about this, for instance - but these essays can just as well address the protection of our built heritage, however new that may be. The Architecture Bulletin is about the ways in which we can reach judgements about architecture, handled by the media as if it were a consumer product or, precisely the converse, stripped of every manipulative technique in the form of a model rendered exactly to scale. It is also about the way in which architecture can imbue our personal identity and our behaviour with meaning, whether in metropolises such as Hong Kong, in a country with a colonial past like Indonesia, or in the Netherlands