Photography
Hans van der Meer

Siebe Swart

Text 
Marieke Berkers

Thijs van den Boomen

Dutch/ENG, Softcover with foil, 23x30 cm, 216 pages, full colour

ISBN 9789492474346

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Ever since their successful debut with Plan Stork over thirty years ago, H+N+S Landscape architects has played a leading role in Dutch landscape architecture. The firm’s designs are a testament to their deep insights and long-term perspectives. Water management and our relationship with nature feature strongly in their work.

During the past three decades the practice has evolved from primarily a ’thinking office’ to becoming a ‘making office’ as well, across all aspects of the profession. A constant factor throughout has been their unique combination of sound knowledge and an inspirational spirit of inquiry. Examples are the design for Maasvlakte II, which blends functionality with enjoyment of nature, relocating a road in Leuven to make way for the wonderful Belle-Vue Park, the new types of dike that impart extra elan to the area development along the river Meuse, and the housing complex that gives a new lease of life to allotment gardens in Alkmaar.

This richly illustrated magazine showcases over thirty projects by H+N+S, with contributions from Hans van der Meer and Siebe Swart. Large gatefold pages make the reader feel part of the landscape. Marieke Berkers interviewed the old and new management about what drives them and Tijs van den Boomen draws on a series of roundtable discussions with clients, former employees, partners and observers – to write about three decades of thinking, acting and letting go.

Thinking, acting, letting go received financial support from Creative Industries Fund NL.

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Selection committee
Jannemarie de Jonge (voorzitter), Elma van Boxel, Philomene van der Vliet, Henk Hartzema en Bianca Seekles

Text and editing
Mark Hendriks (hoofdredacteur), Martine Bakker, Marieke Berkers, Rob van der Bijl, Marc Nolden, Sofia Opfer

Dutch/ENG, Softcover with dust jacket, 22x30 cm, 200 pages, full colour

ISBN 9789492474339

December 2020

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Showcasing the brightest and best projects of 2020, this Yearbook includes a newly created group of islands in the Markermeer, several new types of dike on the island of Texel and along the Meuse river, a residential neighbourhood in Amsterdam-Noord built on circular principles, a former factory site in Eindhoven redesigned with input from the residents and a new station building and concourse in Assen. All are exceptional places and plans that embody the themes of this year’s edition: diversity, sustainability and innovation.

The projects were selected by an independent committee of professionals. The editors of Blauwe Kamer magazine curated the book. The book includes a portrait of Yttje Feddes – winner of the Bijhouwer Prize for her contribution to landscape architecture – and an essay by government advisor Berno Strootman on landscape-inclusive agriculture.

Blauwe Kamer Yearbook Landscape architecture and Urban Design 2019 received financial support from Creative Industries Fund NL,  Chief Government Architect and Advisors and the NHBOS foundation.

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Selection committee
Joks Janssen (chair), Marc Nolden, Eva Pfannes, Enno Zuidema

Text and editing
Mark Hendriks (editor in chief), Martine Bakker, Marieke Berkers,

Rob van der Bijl, Maarten Ettema, Marc Nolden, Anne Seghers, Lara Voerman

Dutch/ENG, Softcover with dust jacket, 22x30 cm, 188 pages, full colour

ISBN 9789492474278

December 2019

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The Yearbook Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning in the Netherlands 2019 contains 21 outstanding projects that showcase the range of urban and landscape design the country has to offer: the best park designs, alterations to heritage assets, innovative projects on the effects of climate measures, plans for future-proofing peatlands and designs that harness the collective wisdom of the public.

The editors of Blauwe Kamer magazine for landscape architecture and urban design compiled this Yearbook from projects selected by an independent committee. In addition to the committee’s findings, the book contains an article on the decline of campus design and a photo reportage on the XXL warehouses responsible for the ‘big–boxification’ of the landscape. The Yearbook also contains an in-depth interview with the chief government architect, Floris Alkemade: ‘Designers should be ruthless’.

Blauwe Kamer Yearbook Landscape architecture and Urban Design 2019 received financial support from Creative Industries Fund NL,  Chief Government Architect and Advisors and the NHBOS foundation.

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Authors

Mark Hendriks

Sofia Opfer

DUTCH/ENG, Softcover with dust jacket, 23x22 cm, 204 pages, full colour

ISBN 9789492474506

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In their first quarter century OKRA Landscape Architects have proven themselves at home and abroad with their valuable visions and designs for the public realm. Their designs reflect an integrated approach to the urban and the rural. Contemporary problems are addressed with carefully thought out solutions that respect historical structures and with original designs that are, above all, people friendly. 

This monograph discusses the principal projects that OKRA has worked on in the last ten years and provides some valuable background information. Illustrated with attractive photos, impressions and drawings, this book portrays a practice that began as a group of talented friends and has since become a leader in its field with an international team of professionals. 

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Editorial board

Lisa Diedrich, Mike Friesen, Mark Hendriks, Christel Lindgren, Claudia Moll

Authors

Katarina Bajc, Martine Bakker, Marina Cervera, Greet De Block, Lisa Diedrich, Mike Friesen,  


Harry Harsema, Mark Hendriks, Christel Lindgren, Josep Mercadé, Claudia Moll, Peter Parker, 


Svava Riesto, Ioanna Spanou, 
Vera Vicenzotti, Nina Vogel

ENG, Softcover with dust jacket, 17x24 cm, 336 pages, full colour

ISBN 9789492474308

October 2018

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This fifth edition of the book series Landscape Architecture Europe shows and reflects on 48 contemporary projects, selected by a practitioners’ jury out of over 200 entries from all over Europe. The selected projects are groundbreaking: some for their innovative ways of tackling sustainability, others for their political stance concerning concepts such as nature and democracy.

This richly illustrated book offers thought-provoking texts in support of three landscape architectural approaches to the challenges of the 21st century: to care for people, places and what is already there, to create urban landscapes of new kinds, and to act and move the course of things.

This publication was made possible with financial support of BSLA FSAP (Bund Schweizer Landschaftsarchitekten und Landschaftsarhitektinnen), IFLA Europe (International Federation of Landscape Architects), the NH Bos Foundation and Creative Industries Fund NL.

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Authors

Marieke Berkers, Hans de Boer, Edwin Buitelaar, Roberto Cavallo, Tom Daamen, Paul Gerretsen,

Maurice Harteveld, Jutta Hinterleitner, Fransje Hooimeijer, Hedwig van der Linden,

Ries van der Wouden 

DUTCH/ENG, Softcover, 24x30 cm, 240 pages, full colour

ISBN 9789492474193

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The design study The City of the Future addressed the major challenges that our cities are facing. Ten teams of professionals from a broad range of disciplines conducted research by design into a square kilometre of one of the five largest cities in the Netherlands – Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague and Eindhoven. Their inspiring visualizations and concrete prospects for action suggest ways in which the major transitions of our time can play out in our cities. They show us a city of the future that is climate-proof, energy- and mobility-smart, that stimulates encounter and is a pleasant place to live and work for everyone.

The City of the Future: Ten Design Strategies for Five Locations presents the results of the study in word and image. The work of the teams is accompanied by experts’ comments, background articles and interviews with those involved in The City of the Future project. It is supplemented with work by students from Delft University of Technology, showing the city of the future through the eyes of today’s and tomorrow’s designers and offering challenging views that we can start working with today.

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Selection committee
Joks Janssen (chair), Marieke Berkers, Tess Broekmans,

Karen de Groot, Gerjan Streng

Text and editing
Mark Hendriks (editor in chief), Martine Bakker, Marieke Berkers,

Rob van der Bijl, Marc Nolden, Anne Seghers, Linde Egberts

Dutch/ENG, Softcover with dust jacket, 22x30 cm, 172 pages, full colour

ISBN 9789492474285

December 2018

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Dutch landscape architects, urban planners and urban designers are gaining growing influence in discussions on pressing issues such as climate change and the energy transition, as well as on housing matters and urban renewal. They are able to combine expertise in guiding complex, long-term developments with inspiring design studies and gems of artistry and workmanship.

This Yearbook reviews the state of the art in Dutch landscape and urban design in 2018. In addition to showcasing twenty exemplary projects, the book includes a review of the selection committee’s choices, an essay on urban design and recent heritage, an interview with the maverick Eindhoven housing corporation director Thom Aussems, and a photo reportage on what threatens to become a new challenge for landscape architecture and urban design: the severe drought of 2018.

Blauwe Kamer Yearbook Landscape architecture and Urban Design 2018 received financial support from Creative Industries Fund NL,  Chief Government Architect and Advisors and the NHBOS foundation.

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Text

Frans Bosscher

Photography

Jeroen Bosch

Archief Deltares

NL/ENG, Softcover with dust jacket, 17x22 cm, 32 pages, full colour

ISBN 9789492474360

October 2018

The Waterloopbos, a wood on the edge of the Noordoostpolder in the Netherlands, has an interesting history. From 1954 to 1996 it was home to the Hydraulics Laboratory where scale models were constructed for national and international research on coastal management, watercourses and harbours. After its closure, nature took over – taking advantage of the unusual ecological conditions. In 2002 the land was transferred to Natuurmonumenten, a conservation organisation that restored the water system and made the area accessible again. In 2016 the woods were declared a national monument because of their unique cultural heritage.

A new highpoint in the woods’ story is the transformation of the Delta Flume. The designers RAAAF | Atelier de Lyon  transformed this icon of hydraulics research into a monumental work of art, entitled Deltawerk //. And the idea is that here too nature will continue to take its course

Text 

Ilonne Bongers, Arnold van Vliet

NL/ENG, Softcover with Swiss binding, 12x12 cm, full colour

ISBN 9789492474186

May 2018

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/ Where can you find a river landscape, an area of hills and a valley so close to each other – and with such a wealth of natural diversity? Instagrammers can be spotted all year round shooting and posting Wageningen’s rich and varied landscapes using #outdoorwageningen. Grass snakes, long-eared owls, panoramas, vistas, spectacular high water levels – this little book captures some of these beautiful and exceptional moments.

See this link for a preview of the book.

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Text

Lodewijk Wiegersma 

ENG, Paperback with dust-jacket, 21X30 cm, 80 pagina’s, full colour

ISBN 978949247322

April 2018

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Sven-Ingvar’s Garden - and other essays on the oeuvre of landscape architect Sven-Ingvar Andersson offers a personal view on the work of this renowned Swedish landscape architect (1927-2007). Due to Andersson’s poetic designs for public spaces in Vienna, Amsterdam and Paris the Scandinavian garden and landscape architecture gained more and more international success. 
Lodewijk Wiegersma reviews these squares and parks as well as Andersson’s finest works in Sweden and Denmark, such as Brunnpark and Sophienholm. The inspiring private garden of Sven-Ingvar is part of the story, as well as a dialogue between Wiegersma and this remarkable architect.

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text

Dirk Sijmons, Yttje Feddes, Eric Luiten,

Fred Feddes, Marc Nolden and others

Photography 

Jeroen Bosch

320 pages, 24,5 x 32 cm

ISBN 978-94-92474-96-4

December 2017

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The Room for the River programme has made the Dutch river landscape fit for the demands of the changing climate. The floodplains are not only safer, but under the ‘spatial quality’ objective they have also been made more attractive. More than thirty projects were completed within a period of just a few years.

The enormous operation that was Room for the River has now been recorded in a richly illustrated book: ROOM FOR THE RIVER – A SAFE AND ATTRACTIVE LANDSCAPE. The three Government Advisors on Landscape involved in the programme, Dirk Sijmons, Yttje Feddes and Eric Luiten, explain why the operation has been so successful and was completed on time and within budget. In an extensive introduction, Fred Feddes describes how the Dutch water management community and the Dutch public came to the point where they were ready to embrace this unique approach, which unites engineering, architecture and nature. Photographer and landscape architect Jeroen Bosch has recorded all the locations in photographs that perfectly capture the quality of the designs.

With contributions by Jan van der Grift, Mark Hendriks, René Siemens, Marc Nolden, Martine Bakker and Michael van Buuren.

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Editors

Martine Bakker, Marieke Berkers, Rob van der Bijl,

Mark Hendriks (editor in chief), Marc Nolden, Anne Seghers

Selection committee 

Florian Boer, Patrick McCabe, Joks Janssen (chairman),

Hanneke Kijne, Anne Seghers

Paperback, full colour

Bilangual Dutch / English

ISBN 978-9492-474-940, NUR 648

December 2017

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Dutch landscape architects and urban planners are tackling major issues of the day, such as climate change and urban renewal, and yet they continue to design and deliver pleasing and attractive public spaces. The Yearbook of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design in the Netherlands presents 19 outstanding projects that reflect the current state of affairs.

Lavishly illustrated, the Yearbook contains clear descriptions of the selected projects, a report on the selection committee’s considerations, an essay on meeting the acute housing needs in the Netherlands, an interview with urban designer Edzo Bindels of West 8, and a photo reportage on rural dereliction.

The press about previous yearbooks

 My compliments on the concise texts that get right to the heart of the design approach. The attractive illustrations make the reader wish they’d been on the jury’s bus trip.

Excellent reference work and up to date too. All in all an absolute must-have.

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Paperback, 256 pages

ISBN 9789492 474124

October 2017

The quality of public space is the backbone of a sustainable city. Great streets, places where you intuitively want to stay longer, interaction between buildings and streets on a human scale, ownership by users, placemaking and good plinths (active ground floors) and a people-centred approach based on the user’s experience – that’s what The City at Eye Level is all about.

It’s a book, an open-source learning network and a programme for improving cities, streets and places all over the world. 

This edition focuses on recent examples in the Netherlands. This book consists of close to 40 stories. 

It was written in cooperation with cities, developers and other practitioners. 

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