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Thomas, Mon 19 Mar 2007
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architecture

The links below are the hand-​selected links that we espe­cially want you all to know about. They are mainly from the Nether­lands, but at times span the inter­na­tional design scene.

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Our Friends

  • DUS archi­tecten – Young office based in Amsterdam
  • red­scape – Patrick Mc Cabe, land­scape & urban­ism. Amsterdam.
  • Ofic­ina Andrés Jaque – Madrid, Spain
  • Mias Arqui­tectes – Barcelona based Archi­tec­ture Office. Pupil of Miralles.
  • asas – arjan scheer's archi­tec­ture practice
  • there­spon­sivecity – Com­par­a­tive urban plan­ning work­shop. Run by Ekim, Web­site Design by me.
  • crim­son – archi­tec­tural historians
  • Jeroen Musch – Archi­tec­ture Pho­tog­ra­pher – Dutch archi­tec­tural photographer
  • www.​lau​pert.com – Movie making fof
  • mate­u­ni­verse – graphic design
  • I.N.D Inter­na­tional design – felix' and arman's office
  • Wohnz­im­mer – A little piece of Berlin in Rotterdam
  • iv-​design – Clau's archite­cure office.
  • Friederike von Rauch – Amaz­ing Archi­tec­ture Photography.
  • Sub.Urban Vide­oLounge – Movies @ the Urban Espresso Bar

    • Architecture

  • The Third & The Sev­enth on Vimeo – CG Ani­ma­tion of Kahn/Mies/Calatrava build­ings. Outstanding.
  • Made by Mis­take – The model maker in NL.
  • EXD’09/LISBOA – Amsterdam-​Lisboa Archi­tec­ture & Design Exhibition
  • LIN – Finn Geipel Julia Andel urban­sim & archi­tec­ture prac­tice in Berlin. Ali.
  • Ofic­ina Andrés Jaque – Madrid, Spain
  • visu­al­com­plex­ity – A visual explo­ration on map­ping com­plex networks.
  • megas­truc­ture reloaded – overview of the 60ies movement
  • Kaiser­srot – Prof. Ludger Hovestadt's (ETH in Zürich) para­met­ric urban­ism soft­ware. Recent project-​partners were the archi­tects Herzog&deMeuron in Basel, Sauerbruch&Hutton in Berlin and KCAP in Rotterdam.
  • Bustler – Archi­tec­ture Com­pe­ti­tions, Events & News
  • stair porn – Ref­er­ence Col­lec­tion of Stairs. Fantastic.
  • Arch­Net: Islamic Archi­tec­ture Com­mu­nity – Online archi­tec­ture com­mu­nity with a focus on Muslim culture.
  • Schloss­de­batte – Dis­cus­sion of the con­tro­ver­sial planned recon­struc­tion of the Berliner Schloss. Inter­est­ing Lineup.
  • open source archi­tec­ture – shar­ing archi­tec­ture knowledge
  • World Archi­tec­ture Community
  • kol­lec­tif – Blog about the Québec Archi­tec­ture scene – en français

    • Urbanism

  • pro­ce­dural – 3D Mod­el­ing Soft­ware for Urban Envi­ron­ments – para­met­ric city design
  • Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today – London based Urban­ism Think Tank
  • Plataforma Urbana – Span­ish Urban­ism Blog
  • urba​nauten.de – public space concepts
  • Urban­Sim Home
  • BRE: Green­Print – Sus­tain­abil­ity Rating System, UK.
  • USGBC: LEED – Lead­er­ship in Energy and Envi­ron­men­tal Design Green Build­ing Rating System – US Sus­tain­abil­ity Checklist
  • The South East Sus­tain­abilty Check­list – UK sus­tain­abil­ity checklist.
  • Kaiser­srot – Prof. Ludger Hovestadt's (ETH in Zürich) para­met­ric urban­ism soft­ware. Recent project-​partners were the archi­tects Herzog&deMeuron in Basel, Sauerbruch&Hutton in Berlin and KCAP in Rotterdam.
  • Eng­lish Part­ner­ships – Urban Design Prin­ci­ples for download
  • Ven­ho­even – Ams­ter­dam based archi­tec­ture & urban­ism office. Ambitious.
  • inura.org – Inter­na­tional Net­work for Urban Research
  • Streets­blog – Urban­ism and Public Space Blog
  • seam­lesster­ri­tory – F.A.S.T. the Foun­da­tion for Achiev­ing Seam­less Territory
  • must – Urban­ism Prac­tice in Amsterdam

    • Landscape

  • Lola – Land­scape Architects
  • paisajes emer­gentes – Lati­namer­i­can Land­scape Prac­tice. Promising.
  • Sei­wooo – Young French Landscaper
  • Field Oper­a­tions – New York based Land­scape office.
  • Ver­ti­cal Garden – by Patrick Blanc. The front­man of ver­ti­cal and stacked greenery.
  • ZUS (Zones Urbaines Sen­si­bles) – young rot­ter­dam land­scap­ing + urbanism
  • B + B Land­scape – Dutch land­scape office
  • Lola land­scape archi­tects – Young Dutch land­scape archi­tec­ture office
  • Karres en Brands – Dutch Land­scape Archi­tec­ture office
  • Inside – Out­side : Petra Blaisse – land­scape, tex­tile, land­scape and exhi­bi­tion design.

    • Art

  • Com­put­ers Club – A Club for Com­put­ers. Dig­i­tal Beauty
  • urba​nauten.de – public space concepts
  • Artkrush – Bi-​monthly art web magazine.
  • visu​al​com​plex​ity.com – Visu​al​Com​plex​ity.com intends to be a uni­fied resource space for anyone inter­ested in the visu­al­iza­tion of com­plex networks
  • ndsm – artist devel­op­ment in Amsterdam
  • design­toshare – yatzer is a blog to locate, col­lect and share nice things
  • front­de­sign – Young swedish design­ers with strong asso­ci­a­tion to animals
  • Julian Opie – great line art.
  • Onder­grond – Ned­er­landse straatkunst – Live data­base for Dutch street art
  • Tent Gallery – Rot­ter­dam – Excel­lent con­tem­po­rary gallery for visual + spa­tial art
  • Olafur Elias­son – Berlin studio of mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary Danish artist
  • Thomas Rent­meis­ter – Con­tem­po­rary German visual artist
  • Bansky – Bansky's Site – includ­ing hi-​res down­loads of his art.

    • Photography

  • but does it float – Inspi­ra­tional col­lec­tion of visual art and cita­tions. Sunday after­noon stuff.
  • LIFE photo archive – great image resource
  • archi​tec​turephoto.net – Japan­ese Site Archi­tec­ture Photo Site.
  • Jeroen Musch – Archi­tec­ture Pho­tog­ra­pher – Dutch archi­tec­tural photographer
  • Kristo­pher Grunert – Archi­tec­ture Photographer.
  • archi​tec​turephoto.net – Archi­tec­ture Photos
  • Flickr: Dutch Archi­tec­ture – Group pool on Dutch Archi­tec­ture Photography
  • Hiroshi Sug­i­moto – sober, tran­quil, pure photograpy
  • Clif­ford Ross – Hur­ri­canes – CR's large format pic­tures of waves, hori­zons, and more.
  • Wel­come to Woophy – Uni­ver­sal image data­base. Flickr with a map.
  • Picto Browser – Free Flickr loader
  • Designclicks – Foto & Graphic Design library. Good Resource. By spiegel.
  • retrievr – search by sketch – Search Flickr by sketch­ing / color schemes

    • Design

  • but does it float – Inspi­ra­tional col­lec­tion of visual art and cita­tions. Sunday after­noon stuff.
  • pro­ce­dural – 3D Mod­el­ing Soft­ware for Urban Envi­ron­ments – para­met­ric city design
  • Com­put­ers Club – A Club for Com­put­ers. Dig­i­tal Beauty
  • EXD’09/LISBOA – Amsterdam-​Lisboa Archi­tec­ture & Design Exhibition
  • kokku­gia – very dig­i­tal archi­tec­ture, very biomikry
  • Mias Arqui­tectes – Barcelona based Archi­tec­ture Office. Pupil of Miralles.
  • ren​der​taxi.de – Aachen based Render Service
  • megas­truc­ture reloaded – overview of the 60ies movement
  • kvadrat.dk: North Tiles – Tex­tile Wall/Curtain System
  • LOG – New York Based Archi­tec­ture magazine
  • Cec­cotti Collezioni – fan­tas­tic fur­ni­ture design.
  • Open Archi­tec­ture Net­work – Improv­ing living stan­dards through col­lab­o­ra­tive design.
  • mag­a­zin – design fur­ni­ture from the young & fresh.
  • design­toshare – yatzer is a blog to locate, col­lect and share nice things
  • front­de­sign – Young swedish design­ers with strong asso­ci­a­tion to animals

    • Data Sources

  • Wikimapia – Another crowd­sourced map project.
  • Rot­ter­dam Dig­i­taal – Rot­ter­dam City Data­base. maps. Demographics
  • Urban Age – City Pro­files – Com­par­a­tive Data on selected cities.
  • Human Devel­op­ment Report 2006 – Data Source on Coun­try developments.
  • Google Map Maker – Google crowd­sources cre­ation of maps to the com­mu­nity, espe­cially in devel­op­ing coun­tries. Com­pare with Open Street Map project.
  • raum​beobach​tung.de/ – Raum­beobach­tungssys­tem des Bun­desin­sti­tut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raum­forschung (BBSR) im Bun­de­samt für Bauwe­sen und Rau­mord­nung (BBR) mit seinen einzel­nen Kom­po­nen­ten und Themen ergeb­nisori­en­tiert im Überblick vor. Ein inter­ak­tives Karten­modul ermöglicht für rund 60 Indika­toren auf Kreisebene eine kom­fort­able Karten­gener­ierung online.
  • visu­al­com­plex­ity – A visual explo­ration on map­ping com­plex networks.
  • Geo­Com­mons – Share and create geo-​data (GIS data), but with­out the dif­fi­cul­ties (and power) of full GIS appliances.
  • visu​al​com​plex​ity.com – Visu​al​Com​plex​ity.com intends to be a uni­fied resource space for anyone inter­ested in the visu­al­iza­tion of com­plex networks
  • UNdata – The data­base of the UN. Resource.
  • MIMOA – Com­mu­nity driven Archi­tec­ture Project Database.
  • World­proces­sor – World data. Art and Statistics.
  • CIA – The World Fact­book – World Data Collection.
  • Sky­scraper Page – Sky­scraper Illus­tra­tion Resource. Fil­ter­able Database.
  • galin­sky – Archi­tec­ture and Build­ing data­base. Good pic­tures, useful descriptions

    • Inspiration Sources

  • The Third & The Sev­enth on Vimeo – CG Ani­ma­tion of Kahn/Mies/Calatrava build­ings. Outstanding.
  • but does it float – Inspi­ra­tional col­lec­tion of visual art and cita­tions. Sunday after­noon stuff.
  • Com­put­ers Club – A Club for Com­put­ers. Dig­i­tal Beauty
  • visu­al­com­plex­ity – A visual explo­ration on map­ping com­plex networks.
  • paisajes emer­gentes – Lati­namer­i­can Land­scape Prac­tice. Promising.
  • stair porn – Ref­er­ence Col­lec­tion of Stairs. Fantastic.
  • Neubau Berlin – Designer Stefan Gandl and Co indulge in pat­terns, vec­tors and typography.
  • Joseph Kosin­ski – Former boss of KDlabs. Great, inspir­ing 3d work and direction.
  • Colourlovers – resource that mon­i­tors color trends.

    • Magazines and Blogs we read

  • won­der­land – Young Archi­tects Network.
  • LIFE photo archive – great image resource
  • Artkrush – Bi-​monthly art web magazine.
  • LOG – New York Based Archi­tec­ture magazine
  • anu­aladearhi­tec­tura – Roman­ian Archi­tec­ture Blog
  • World Archi­tec­ture Community
  • ICON – UK-​Based ICON Magazine
  • noti­ci­asar­qui­tec­tura – span­ish archi­tec­ture news.
  • Sus­tain­able Rot­ter­dam – is a blog about liv­able Rotterdam.
  • MATSYS : mate​ri​al​sys​tems.org
  • VOLUME – A project by ARCHIS & AMO & C-LAB & others. Archi­tec­ture dis­cus­sion platform
  • Core77 / design mag­a­zine + resource / home – Indus­trial design magazine
  • Eikon­graphia – Rot­ter­dam based archi­tec­ture blog
  • dezeen – Design + Archi­tec­ture blog by the former editor of icon mag­a­zine, Marcus Fairs
  • edgar­gon­za­lez – Madrid based archi­tec­ture blog. spanish

    • Super Dutch

  • Rot­ter­dam Dig­i­taal – Rot­ter­dam City Data­base. maps. Demographics
  • archined.nl – Dutch Archi­tec­ture News Site
  • red­scape – Patrick Mc Cabe, land­scape & urban­ism. Amsterdam.
  • arch­fonds – Archi­tec­ture Project Grants Pro­gramme of the Dutch Cul­ture Stim­u­la­tion Fund.
  • Ven­ho­even – Ams­ter­dam based archi­tec­ture & urban­ism office. Ambitious.
  • Acad­e­mie van Bouwkunst – Amsterdam's archi­tec­ture academy.
  • Exper­i­men­taDe­sign – This Year's Design Event in Ams­ter­dam. Topic: Space and Place | 18 Sep­tem­ber – 2 November
  • Fes­ti­val de Wereld van Witte de With – Rotterdam's fancy road cel­e­brates itself.
  • there­spon­sivecity – Com­par­a­tive urban plan­ning work­shop. Run by Ekim, Web­site Design by me.
  • SEV – Inno­vatie in wonen – Dutch Steer­ing Com­mit­tee for Exper­i­ments in Public Hous­ing – sup­port­ing innovation
  • must – Urban­ism Prac­tice in Amsterdam
  • Riche en Pulpe – Dutch Graphic Designers.
  • cat­a­logtree 4.0 – Dia­gram loving Arhem based Design Shop
  • Archi​tec​tuur.nl – Dutch Archi­tec­ture Platform
  • WiMBY! Wel­come into My Back­yard – Rot­ter­dam Hoogvliet new town. By Wouter van Stiphout with others.

    • Practices we like

  • LIN – Finn Geipel Julia Andel urban­sim & archi­tec­ture prac­tice in Berlin. Ali.
  • Mias Arqui­tectes – Barcelona based Archi­tec­ture Office. Pupil of Miralles.
  • Ven­ho­even – Ams­ter­dam based archi­tec­ture & urban­ism office. Ambitious.
  • urban­drift – plat­form for Archi­tec­ture, Design and Urbanism
  • King Roselli – Rome based Architects
  • must – Urban­ism Prac­tice in Amsterdam
  • Sub­ar­qui­tec­tura – Promis­ing young prac­tice in Valen­cia, Spain.

    • Software we use

  • Urban­Sim Home
  • Pro­cess­ing 1.0 – Pro­cess­ing is a simple pro­gram­ming envi­ron­ment that was cre­ated to make it easier to develop visu­ally ori­ented appli­ca­tions with an empha­sis on ani­ma­tion and pro­vid­ing users with instant feed­back through inter­ac­tion. The devel­op­ers wanted a means to “sketch” ideas in code.
  • bonzai3d – Mod­ernised FormZ Suc­ces­sor. Hope?
  • Kaiser­srot – Prof. Ludger Hovestadt's (ETH in Zürich) para­met­ric urban­ism soft­ware. Recent project-​partners were the archi­tects Herzog&deMeuron in Basel, Sauerbruch&Hutton in Berlin and KCAP in Rotterdam.
  • GE Shar­ing – Google Earth real time shar­ing of screen view.
  • men­tal­raytips – Ren­der­ing tips by a mental images employee.
  • form·Z – The architect's 3d soft­ware package.
  • Top­Solid – Asso­cia­tive CAD soft­ware for para­met­ric design.
  • MATSYS : mate​ri​al​sys​tems.org
  • Super Ana­lyzer for iTunes – Java-​Based data ana­lyzer for iTunes Library
  • Pro­cess­ing – Killer pro­gram­ming lan­guage for visual and media artists from Ben Fry & Casey Reas
  • Rhino 3D – Excel­lent fast and robust Nurbs mod­eller for windows
  • medi­enkun­st­netz – Infor­ma­tion space con­tain­ing a vast col­lec­tion of media-​objects
  • Picto Browser – Free Flickr loader
  • Solid­Think­ing – Pro­fes­sional NURBS mod­eler. Mac and PC.

    • Also worth a look

  • bustler.net – Archi­tec­ture Competitions
  • 80 Beau­ti­ful Type­faces For Pro­fes­sional Design | Design Showcase
  • Ivar Hagen­doorn – chore­o­g­ra­pher, pho­tog­ra­pher, researcher, philoso­pher, trav­eller, adven­ture capitalist.
  • fresh­Madrid – Exhi­bi­tion of young offices of archi­tec­ture in Madrid. Links, Blog.
  • The CAD Block Exchange Net­work – Shar­ing site for Auto­cad blocks. Resource.
  • el bulli – The avant­garde restau­rant of Ferran Adria. Famil­iar con­cepts in the domain of cooking.
  • Death by Archi­tec­ture – Start­ing point to find archi­tec­ture competitions.
  • arte­fac­tory – Archi­tec­ture visu­al­iza­tion agency.



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      in links: no maxwan.com…not in friends, not in archi­tects, not in urban­ists, not in offices we like…what hap­pend? F

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