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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.

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.

Total Space, based on two research workshops organized in 2015, investigates the international dimensions of Structuralism.

This publication presents documentation compiled by the Jaap Bakema Study Centre as a reflection upon the installations by Andreas Angelidakis and Inside Outside / Petra Blaisse produced by the Nieuwe Instituut as part of its exhibition programme in 2015. With contributions by Floor van Ast, Guus Beumer, Dirk van den Heuvel, Marten Kuijpers, Andreas Angelidakis, Petra Blaisse, Hetty Berens, and Patrick Healy.

The history and the contemporary relevance of Dutch Structuralism were at the center of the publication 'Structuralism: An Installation in Four Acts', With contributions from, among others, Guus Beumer, Piet Blom, Dirk van den Heuvel, John Habraken, Joop Hardy, Herman Hertzberger and Lada Hršak / Bureau LADA.