Series: Everything Without Content

This book focuses solely on the Shonandai Cultural Centre, the first major public project of Itsuko Hasegawa. It is the unlikely successor to the previous books we made on the works of Aldo and Hannie Van Eyck and Giancarlo de Carlo. Shonandai belongs to a different time—the 1980s—and a different place—Japan—but it shares the desire of the earlier generations to...

Giancarlo de Carlo: Experiments in Thickness is part of the 'Everything without Content' series by Kersten Geers, Jelena Pancevac, and Joris Kritis. It presents the work Giancarlo de Carlo built in Urbino in the 1960s and 70s, set against the backdrop of his involvement in Team 10 debates that challenged modernist doctrines on architecture and urbanism. Giancarlo de Carlo first...

An essential survey of the Architectural works of Aldo & Hannie van Eyck Known as the father of Dutch modernism, Aldo van Eyck was instrumental in defining the landscape of postwar architecture. His designs foregrounded the importance of the lived experience of the inhabitants of each building, and these social concerns are clearly apparent in the choice of projects profiled...