The organisational conflicts of Studio Olafur Eliasson. A new book, The Fall of the Studio: Artists at Work, examines through a collection of essays the changing role of the artists’ studio as sacred space of creative genesis. Edited by Wouter Davidts and Kim Paice, psychedelic-ly designed by Metahaven, and published by the new imprint of [...]

IDEO /Tim Brown, Bruce Nussbaum and Stanford d.school call it Design Thinking. Michael Speaks, Michael Shamiyeh, Bruce Mau talk about Design Intelligence, Nigel Cross writes about Designerly ways of knowing (one of the best books i’ve read so far on design thinking). All these ideas deal with design as process rather than object. They all [...]

In 2006 the Stylos conference ‘The Projective Landscape‘ took place at the the Faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft of which I was the initiator and one of the organisers. What was it about? What were we after? Let me quote the preface we wrote in our pre-publication (a special edition of Pantheon): “An [...]

As a student of architecture there is a certain point in your studies when you start wondering about how you should position yourself towards society when you’re practicing the craft of designing space. What are your moral codes, what principles do you design by, what influence does your work have on real life, real people? [...]

Now that we’ve stated our ambition to dive into design practice to search for what designing and architecture actually is, I’ll introduce some context why this is of interest to me and why it lead to my graduation project ‘Reasoning in Architecture.’ In a three (or so) posts I’ll share with you a short biography [...]