Never waste a good crisis - 2018

Surprisingly, the financial crisis has led to an exceptional harvest of housing projects. Since 2008, the Architecture Yearbooks have shown a large number of housing projects by small-scale initiators. Read the essay here. Gpublished in 'Architecture in the Netherlands', Yearbook 2017/2018, nai010 publishers.

The presentation in Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, 8 May 2018, deals with the purchase of the social housing in the Architecture Yearbooks. Internationally, the Netherlands is known for its good architecture in social housing. The last social housing project on a cover is the WoZoCo of MVRDV and dates from 1996. "What happened to Dutch social housing?