Publications

Architect Daan Roggeveen, founder of MORE Architecture, interviewed Alexander Pols for Architectenweb’s Tower of Babel series. They discuss his career, his long-standing collaboration with Hans Kollhoff and — of course — his views on high-rise architecture. Listen to the podcast here.

Production: Lieven Heeremans
Platform: Architectenweb
Supported by: Stichting Hoogbouw
Music: Job Roggeveen

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You should renovate the shop while business is quiet. And that is exactly what we did: our shop window, polsarchitects.com, is beginning to take shape. Read more about the process — and the search for the right architectural position and the right website — in the new column on Architectenweb.

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Congress 'The art of building cities': on the occasion of Amsterdam's 750th anniversary, the Association of Friends of the Amsterdam Inner City (VVAB), together with the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism (INTBAU), organized an international conference on the historic city as a source of inspiration for innovation in urban planning. Alexander Pols gave a short lecture on his vision for the future of the city. The language of the congress was English; all lectures can be viewed below.

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In his bimonthly columns for Architectenweb, Alexander Pols asks questions about current themes in architecture, urban planning, and the construction sector. Go to the overview here to read them.

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The booklet 'Facades for a Canal House' presents a selection of projects from the Berlage Design Masterclass 'Designing with Granpré Molière', led by Hans Kollhoff and Alexander Pols, which took place from 7 to 15 November 2019. The booklet is accompanied by an introductory leporello titled 'On Granpré Molière's Schoonheidsleer, 1939-1940' by Hans Kollhoff.

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Congress "Identität der Architektur" at the University of Aachen (RTWH Aachen). Under the motto "function," various architects gave lectures on the role of function in their own architecture and realized buildings, and engaged in a discussion with one another.

Alexander Pols' lecture is in German and can be viewed here.

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Book 'Post Piraeus – on the construction site and the city': in 1994, the Piraeus residential building, designed by Hans Kollhoff, was completed. It caused a sensation in the Dutch construction world. It took a German architect to demonstrate that a design did not have to distance itself from Dutch building culture. Piraeus can be seen as a turning point after which thinking about the creation of buildings and the city was recharged.

One-off special edition of De Architect, initiated by and featuring contributions from ten architects:

Job Floris
Jacq. De Brouwer
Floris Cornelissen
Endry van Velzen & Mark de Bokx
Jo Jansen
Jeroen Geurst
Jan Peter Wingender
Hans van der Heijden
Gus Tielens
Alexander Pols

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