PhD Programme Architecture and Democracy

Together with the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, the Jaap Bakema Study centre has launched the new Architecture and Democracy PhD programme. This investigates how, over the course of the 20th century, architecture and urban planning played a role in representing, embodying and enabling democracy. The programme expands the PhD portfolio of the Department of Architecture of TU Delft and connects with the programme of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre and the National Collection of Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning at Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Van den Broek en Bakema, Central Library, Rotterdam, 1973. Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut, BROX 2288r2-1

PhD Programme

Van den Broek en Bakema. Postcheque- en Girodienst, Arnhem, 1960. Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut, BROX f1268-30a

Call for PhD proposals Architecture and Democracy: Institutions

The Jaap Bakema Study Centre, together with the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology and Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam invite PhD proposals to expand the Architecture and Democracy programme. The deadline for submission is 16 May 2022.

Van den Broek en Bakema, interior impression of modern everyday life, drawing made for 't Hool, Eindhoven, 1961-72. Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut, BROX 1307t9-2

Architecture and Democracy

International PhD Colloquium

The Jaap Bakema Study Centre is organizing the Architecture and Democracy International PhD Colloquium together with Delft University of Technology’s Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. The subject of the colloquium is also the focus of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre’s newly launched PhD programme.

Call for PhD proposals: Architecture and Democracy

Interested candidates who are qualified to pursue PhD-level research work were invited to submit their applications.

Talking Housing with Íñigo Cornago Bonal

Interview with Íñigo Cornago Bonal, PhD candidate in the Architecture and Democracy programme. This programme investigates how, over the course of the 20th century, architecture and urban planning played a role in representing, embodying and enabling democracy. In his PhD, Íñigo studies the role of dwellers in shaping the contemporary global housing system and their impact on spatial justice.

Archive Deep Dive with Burcu Köken

Interview with Burcu Köken, PhD candidate in the Architecture and Democracy programme. Central to her research is the comprehensive study of the architecture journals Forum, RIBA Journal and Mimarlık between 1960-1980, and how they relate to the advancement of various social programmes during the postwar period.

Annual Conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre 2019

OMA. Dutch Parliament extension, The Hague, 1978. Colors by M. Vriesendorp. Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut, OMAR 6b.

Architecture and Democracy 1965-1989: Urban Renewal, Populism and the Welfare State

Conference 2019

This year's international conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre focuses on the years 1965 to 1989, in which welfare state arrangements were contested on both left and right, by counterculture movements and the rise of populism. While government institutions sought a proper response, urban renewal and city repair became a new field of work for architects and planners.

H. Hertzberger. Housing ‘LiMA’, Lindenstrasse 82-84 / Markgrafenstrasse 5-8, West-Berlin, Germany, 1982-1986. Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut, HERT 39.4

Open Architecture as Radical Democracy: Gentle Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg

Keynote lecture

Esra Akcan is the keynote speaker for the Jaap Bakema Study Centre conference 2019 Architecture and Democracy 1965-1989: Urban Renewal, Populism and the Welfare State. Akcan’s research explores the concept of ‘open architecture’ through the thorough investigation of the urban renewal of Kreuzberg, Berlin’s immigrant neighbourhood, in the 1980s.

Architecture and Democracy 1965-1989: Urban Renewal, Populism and the Welfare State

Proceedings

Proceedings of the 6th annual conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre. The conference focused on the years 1965 to 1989, in which welfare state arrangements were contested on both left and right, by counterculture movements and the rise of populism. While government institutions sought a proper response, urban renewal and city repair became a new field of work for architects and planners.

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