Power To the House cover, source: Pow­er­house Company

The emerg­ing Rot­ter­dam archi­tec­ture and urban­ism office, The Pow­er­house Com­pany, has just pub­lished their first “autobiographical magazine”, Power to the House. The mag­a­zine is an excit­ing overview of their work over the past couple years, and fea­tures archi­tec­tural and urban projects, build­ings under con­struc­tion, com­pe­ti­tions, and research.

The Pow­er­house Com­pany is run by Nanne de Ru in Rot­ter­dam, and Charles Bessard in Copen­hagen. The two-​year old office is off to a good start with their strat­egy of work­ing across Europe. The young archi­tects have split their office in two cities from the start and exploit free online tools and cheap long-​distance net­work­ing tools such as Skype, Gmail, You Send It, Lulu and Transavia. They rep­re­sent a new gen­er­a­tion of ambi­tious archi­tects that know how to exploit the tools of glob­al­i­sa­tion to get things done.

The mag­a­zine is self-​published, and can be either down­loaded dig­i­tally for free, or bought and deliv­ered to you in print form, from Lulu online publishing.

Here are some of the projects:

Villa 1, Nether­lands, under construction

Dutch Houses, Netherlands

Spiral House, France, under construction

On Top of Things – Water­tower Con­ver­sion, Den­mark, design phase

* More photos here: Pow­er­house Company