The Architectural Project and its Foundations

The research program regards the ‘architectural project’ as the cornerstone of architectural practice and reflection. Architecture is a field where making and thinking are inextricably linked. The architectural project thus forms the junction where a complex combination of cultural, social, functional, economical and ecological factors is articulated as a concrete spatial proposal. This articulation requires a specific expertise that characterizes the discipline of architecture.

	The Building: Types and Models “The Building: Types and models” holds that the architectural project at the scale of the building embodies and represents knowledge that can be made explicit through comparative and interpretive study. Read more
	Architecture and the City: Public Realm/Public Building This research project focuses on and questions the mutual relationship among public buildings, public spaces and the public realm in the contemporary city. Read more
	Borders and Territories This research group focuses on the study of complex spatial mechanisms and systems within contemporary cities and territories, as the contextual basis of architectural interventions. Read more
	Mapping Randstad Holland “Mapping the cities of the Randstad” presents a comparative analysis of the architecture of the nine most important historical cities of the Randstad Holland. Read more
	Revisions: Changing Ideals and Shifting Realities This research group focuses on the investigation of design knowledge; the knowledge that is embedded in the projects of architects, as well as in their approaches and positions. Read more
	Positions: The Architectural Discipline and its Instruments This group positions architecture as a field of expertise with its own specific logic, rationale and instruments, as embodied in the material reality of the architectural project. Read more