Browsing: Delft University of Technology

13 May will mark the first anniversary of the destruction of the Faculty of Architecture (Bouwkunde) of the Technological University Delft (TU Delft) in a fire last year. The loss of the building designed by the architect Van den Broek triggered the launching of an international competition inviting ideas for a new building. 466 entries from 50 different countries were submitted, and the winner was announced a month ago. All the entries can be seen in the exhibition ‘Building for Bouwkunde’, held at the NAI Rotterdam from 15 March to 7 June.

On 13 May 2008, the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) was unexpectedly reduced to ashes by a devastating fire. Soon after the fire, the Faculty of Architecture decided to organise an open international ideas competition for the new faculty building in 2009. Recently, the winners of the competition where announced. You can see all the winning projects, here.

The Berlage Institute is offering, in conjunction with the Faculty of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology, a new three-year PhD Program in Architecture devoted to the study of how the form of the city can be theorized, represented, and projected. The program encourages speculations that take positions towards the city-at-large by questioning and using architectural knowledge itself. This knowledge of architectural forms and representations will be used to speculate about the city and its political, social, and cultural organization.

Read more about it here.