Inside density

Nethca est un rseau d'acteurs et de penseurs du champ architectural et urbanistique fond en 1998 avec l'ambition de ractiver la critique architecturale et de fournir des outils pour la recherche et la politique urbaines.

Actes du colloque tenu en novembre 1999 Bruxelles

Textes en franais avec prsentation anglaise ou en anglais avec prsentation franaise

Confrenciers invits : Pascal Amphoux (EPFL, Lausanne) et Mark Wigley (Princeton University). Contributions de Peter Zellner, Bruce Thomas, Richard M. Beckman, Dieter De Clercq, Stephen Lauf, Eleni Gigantes, Bernard Kormoss, Michel Lasserre et Paola Yacoub, Olivier Mathieu, Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh, Stephen Vovats et Kai Voeckler, Hubert Lionnez et Roberto Zancan, Genevive van Helden, Joseph Juhasz et Kelly Shannon, Tom Avermaete, Annemie Depuydt et Erik Van Daele, Kris Scheerlinck, Li Mei Tsien, Alexander D'Hooghe, Sarah Whiting.

NeTHCA (Network for Theory, History, and Criticism of Architecture) is a group of researchers, teachers and practitioners concerned with architecture and the city. Founded in 1998, neTHCA organizes and supports initiatives intended to stimulate high-quality research and critical debate in the field, notably through biennial
international colloquia: Inside Density (1999), Tourism Revisited (2001), Critical Tools (2003) and The Unthinkable Doctorate (2005).

The call for papers for the "Inside Density" colloquium, organised by NeTHCA in November 1999, evoked papers addressing issues of density, congestion and networking. The aim of the colloquium was to explore the theoretical underpinnings of the concept of density and to criticize the naive use of density indexes as markers of good planning. The colloquium brought together an international range of renowned scholars, promising young researchers and practising architects.

This volume, co-edited by Hilde Heynen and David Vanderburgh, presents the best texts that resulted from the colloquium. It contains contributions by key-note speakers Pascal Amphoux and Mark Wigley, as well as papers from Tom Avermaete, Dieter De Clercq, Alexander D'Hooghe, Marc Glaudemans, Leslie Kavanaugh, Bernard Kormoss, Hubert Lionnez / Robert Zancan, Oliver Mathieu / Li Mei Tsien, Anne Mie Depuydt / Erik Van Daele, Kai Vckler, Sarah Whiting, Paola Yacoub / Michel Lasserre...