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Artefact: Rotring Artpen, by Lotte Dijkstra.The pen has many imperfections: the ink from cheap refill cartridges blotches and staines, and does not combine with water colours at all, my hands are regularly stained, etchings on sketching paper take a disproportionally long time to dry, and the ink…View →
Louder than Words, by Vineet Dhall.Human hands can paint Sistine Chapel, pluck a bass guitar, manoeuvre surgical instruments, forge metal, type this essay, pull out the Excalibur, or strike the pose of the thinker.…View →
Xiao talks tech, by Federico Ruiz.In the digital space, the action of our hands, which used to be recorded in matter, is now saved as information.…View →
Artefact: My Mobile Phone, by James O'Callaghan.It’s obvious revolutionary effect in bringing the information we now have access to right in to our hands, what it represents as good design and what it represents as continued innovations.…View →
Costa del Sprawl Pavilion - Estudio ESSE, by Sam Eadington.I’ll design extra-terrestrial sporting arenas where crowds will chant my name, shake hands with unelected leaders and say I haven’t changed. I’ll dance for my masters then work for them for free, dad can pay my rent to get their name on my CV.…View →
Blog: Mar 23, 2021Our hand-printed Taboo Cover. For our February edition of Taboo, we worked with Urbanism student Raven van der Steen to create a linocut design that represented the visual symbology of taboos.…View →
A Recap of INDESEM.21, by Hidde Dijkstra.So this year again, we took matters into our own hands, and we created INDESEM.21: DATASCAPE. So why DATASCAPE? We started the year thinking of topics that we wanted to learn more about and thought students should be more involved.…View →
The Last Cup of Coffee in BK?, by Elena Rossoni.Sodexo used to provide food and beverages across the whole campus in the past, but this year things changed and our daily provision of drinks and food was passed into the hands of Cormet.…View →
Artefact: Kitchen Knife, by Ulf Hackauf.Your hands get to do something different than typing. And you get something done: Cooking a meal is like a small little project, where you actually do meet the deadline. A very rewarding experience.…View →
Artefact: The Bric-a-brac cabinet, by Leeke Reinders.They wear, move and change hands. Its usage might change, as well as its meaning or emotional connotations. The first time I laid eyes upon this cabinet building, I was intrigued by its bric-a-brac qualities.…View →
A Decade of Bnieuws, by Aimee Baars.completeness in the information we get when reading a print media, as compared to the digital platform: merely taking a couple of minutes of your day to step away from the ever-present technology radius, concentrating on holding the magazine in your hands…View →
Bnieuws edition 54/01. Published September 2020.In your hands you hold a small collection of essays, interviews, and poems written by people just like you and me.…View →
Titanium White, by Zuzanna Sliwinska.Fascinated by the mythical capabilities of the artist’s hand, art forgers depart on a journey of artist’s reincarnation and channelling supernatural ability to translate imaginary onto the canvas through their own hands.…View →
Grief or Change, by Emilie Stecher.I started asking myself every time I was in a shop holding a desired object in my hands: Do I really. need. it or do I only. want. it? Is it. necessity. or. greed. thriving me?…View →
Talking Spaces, by Federico Ruiz.Perhaps this has to do with the fact that our building is a product of an emergency, a moment when the priority was to fit a whole faculty into a pre-existing structure, with limited resources at hand and within a limited period of time.…View →
Living in safe mode: In conversation with Theo Deutinger, by Marco Fusco and Matthew Cook.When I can hold a drawing in my hands, I have managed to physically understand the ideas behind it. As architects, we have developed tools to simplify cities radically, and by simplifying, understanding it.…View →
A subjective take on greenwashing, by Katarzyna Soltysiak and Ecaterina Stefanescu.It was consciously sustainable in the sense in which it was an inherent part of our design ethos in general terms: about reuse, about adapting what we’ve got, reducing waste, hands-on working, which are intrinsically sustainable.…View →
Challenging Steps, by Inez Margaux Spaargaren.At first, KINZO was a dance club located in Berlin, built with their own hands. This club helped them build the foundation of the architectural office.…View →
Animal Architecture, by Aimee Baars."Humans are therefore unusual in having hands whose dominant role is the restructuring of the world around them." (Hansell, 2000, p.16) Add to that, only humans have extended from their bodies to external machinery to do the work.…View →
Interview: The Book and The Building, by Louis Lousberg, Koen Mulder & Christopher Clarkson.Louis: You could call it a kind of tactile reading, it’s very important to have it in your hands. It’s an object. You’re both speaking about it as kind of guardians of the library, which I admire.…View →
Shooting at the Verge, by Alessandro Rognoni.The mysterious man, revealing himself as an impostor, snatches the purse out of Cabiria’s hands before throwing her in the river Tevere.…View →
Interview Jan Dierckx: 10 minutes with an architect, by Louisa Hollander.Do you think the building of the future is still built by human hands? I think that in the future the building industry will be more like the car industry. There will be a lot of human/robot collaboration.…View →
Dear TU Delft, by Christopher Clarkson.Subendran explained, “I think what a lot of people have learned now is that you just have to take matters in your own hands. You can’t trust or depend on [any] kind of a system that represents you.”…View →