Amsterdam: Urban Architecture and Living Environments documents the built projects and design thinking that define Amsterdam's current architectural moment, from floating houses on its waterways to a bicycle garage sunk beneath a harbour basin.
About This Book
Amsterdam has long balanced heritage preservation with spatial invention, and this volume takes stock of where that balance currently stands. Edited by Anneke Bokern and Sandra Hofmeister, the book surveys the city's most compelling recent architecture through built project documentation, supplementary essays, and interviews with practising architects. The scope runs from adaptive reuse — hotels in former bridge keepers' cottages, the renovated Felix Meritis — to the redevelopment of the former port areas along the IJ. Taken together, these projects map Amsterdam's urban resilience and its evolving approaches to housing, public infrastructure, and the recovery of industrial waterfronts as living environments.
Key Features
- 312 pages of built project documentation, essays, and architect interviews
- Edited by Anneke Bokern and Sandra Hofmeister
- Notable projects include the Felix Meritis cultural monument renovation, floating houses, and a below-harbour bicycle garage
- Published by DETAIL, ISBN 9783955536541
What You'll Discover
- How Amsterdam architects are working within the constraints of a UNESCO-listed canal city while producing genuinely inventive new buildings
- The redevelopment logic behind the former port and commercial districts on the IJ waterfront, and what it means for housing typology
- Adaptive architectural concepts that convert industrial and civic relics — bridge keepers' cottages, heritage cultural buildings — into contemporary use
- First-hand accounts from the architects themselves on new forms of housing and the ideas that drive Amsterdam's forward-looking design culture
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 312
- Dimensions: 25 x 19.5 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783955536541
- Publisher: DETAIL
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, urban designers, and researchers with an interest in European housing innovation, waterfront regeneration, and adaptive reuse in heritage-dense city contexts.