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Staying with Modernity? explores the many entanglements of architecture, modernity and coloniality. The proceedings of the conference, organised by the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, are now available for download.

The article (Un)Natural Nature is an account of the fourth edition of the Queer Salon, about the garden as a queer sanctuary.

Queer Encounters in the Archive: Misplaced Love Letters and Autobiographical Homes, examines the act of queering in relation to the Dutch national architecture collection. This research was published in Queering Architecture, an edited volume by Marko Jobs and Naomi Stead.

Architecture Archives of the Future delves into the evolving relationships between architectural practice, archival research, and exhibition making. The proceedings the 10th annual conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, are now available for download.

You can now download the proceedings of Building Data, the 9th conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre.

The Observers Observed explores ethnography's influence on architecture. The conference proceedings can be downloaded here.

Repositioning Architecture in the Digital critically explores the interplay between architecture and digital culture since the 1970s.

Catalogue accompanying the eponymous exhibition Art on Display 1949-69, a collaboration between the Gulbenkian Museum in Porto and the Nieuwe Instituut.

Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture is a new look at ecological thinking and a contribution to its historiography. Including work by Jaap Bakema, Aldo van Eyck, Alison and Peter Smithson, James Stirling and many others.

Architecture and Democracy examined the role of the welfare state, politics and government institutions in urban renewal projects between 1965 and 1989, at a time when counter-cultures and populism were on the rise. The proceedings of the conference, organised by the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, are now available for download.

Jaap Bakema and the Open Society is the first extensive publication on the Dutch architect Jaap Bakema, his ideas and ideals for society at large.

This publication documents an intensive ten-week workshop programme in which students imagined the potential for reuse of the legacy of post-war modernist buildings as well as some iconic and didactic contemporary projects.