Publications

Our firm always remains involved in the development and execution of projects, but things are now going wrong with one project. In football terms: suddenly, it turns out we are no longer in the starting lineup during the development phase. Read the new column on Architectenweb here.

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Congress 'The art of building cities': on the occasion of Amsterdam's 750th anniversary, the Association of Friends of the Amsterdam Inner City (VVAB), together with the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism (INTBAU), organized an international conference on the historic city as a source of inspiration for innovation in urban planning. Alexander Pols gave a short lecture on his vision for the future of the city. The language of the congress was English; all lectures can be viewed below.

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In his bimonthly columns for Architectenweb, Alexander Pols asks questions about current themes in architecture, urban planning, and the construction sector. Go to the overview here to read them.

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Congress "Identität der Architektur" at the University of Aachen (RTWH Aachen). Under the motto "function," various architects gave lectures on the role of function in their own architecture and realized buildings, and engaged in a discussion with one another.

Alexander Pols' lecture is in German and can be viewed here.

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Book 'Post Piraeus – on the construction site and the city': in 1994, the Piraeus residential building, designed by Hans Kollhoff, was completed. It caused a sensation in the Dutch construction world. It took a German architect to demonstrate that a design did not have to distance itself from Dutch building culture. Piraeus can be seen as a turning point after which thinking about the creation of buildings and the city was recharged.

One-off special edition of De Architect, initiated by and featuring contributions from ten architects:

Job Floris
Jacq. De Brouwer
Floris Cornelissen
Endry van Velzen & Mark de Bokx
Jo Jansen
Jeroen Geurst
Jan Peter Wingender
Hans van der Heijden
Gus Tielens
Alexander Pols

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