DASH stands for Delft Architectural Studies on Housing Design. It is a new international and interdisciplinary biannual wholly devoted to housing construction. In the Netherlands, housing design is still one of the most large-scale and important tasks for architects. The worldwide renown of the Dutch tradition of housing design stands in stark contrast to current practices in housing construction, which is increasingly limited to a repetition of existing solutions. Many topical questions with regard to issues such as densification, privacy and mobility remain unanswered. The new DASH biannual aims to rediscover the riches of housing design. By investigating and drawing up an inventory of new housing types, DASH also wishes to inject housing design with a new élan. Themes to be addressed include the interrelationship of public, collective and private space both in the city and within the built structure, the importance of appearance and space in the design, and the formulation of ideas about (housing) design over the last 50 years.

> Published twice a year
> each edition of DASH is devoted to a fundamental theme in contemporary housing development, with an introductory essay by the editor or guest editor responsible, followed by extensive, uniformly presented plan documentation of relevant projects from the present as well as the past.
> Four to six articles about specific aspects of the theme in which historical hindsight and critical reflection on current development practices are key, and a bibliography that adds an interdisciplinary dimension to the specific theme.
>DASH aims to make an international contribution to housing design from a Dutch perspective.

	With Dick van Gameren, Dirk van den Heuvel, Olv Klijn, Harald Mooij and Pierijn van der Putt , Sebastiaan Kaal and Paul Kuitenbrouwer (Chair in Dwelling, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology) (eds.) DASH The luxury City Apartment Design: Joseph Plateau, Paperback, Illustrated (colour and b/w), 160 pages, 23 x 28 cm English/Dutch edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-717-1, € 35.00 In association with the Faculty of Architecture's Chair of -Housing Design, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) The second issue of DASH focuses on the emergence of the luxury city apartment. The articles range from historical explorations of luxurious apartments built in Paris and London in the late 19th century and the full-service apartments realized in The Hague in the early 20th century to the emergence of enclaves for the wealthy in Brazil. There is also an article com¬paring the Dutch market with the market in Berlin and an account of the turbulent history of a luxury apartment complex in the Netherlands. > Order at NAi Booksellers