Jap Sam Books
Jap Sam Books is an independent, international publishing house based in the Netherlands and specializing in architecture, art, philosophy, design and theory. Jap Sam Books has been established to reflect, connect and respond to developments in these fields, by bringing out a range of critical and reflective books for an international audience. The books that we publish are not only educational and inspirational, but also very beautifully designed, and all produced in close collaboration with our contributors.

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Francine Broos

The time is right for this magnificently produced, large-format book on internationally revered Dutch interior architect Francine Broos. She has found a personal style that astutely mixes natural wood, earthy stone and other warming elements with ...

  • ISBN: 9789059730748
  • Eleonoor Jap Sam
  • Hardcover, 176 pages
  • 2008
  • €61,32 (excl. VAT)
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Enterprising Architecture / Architectuur bedrijven

Nieuw-Vennep Zuid is a business park with a vision: an elaborate urban development plan, an ambitious landscape design and a first-rate architectural execution. This book portrays this exceptional business park, its buildings and the whole process ...

  • ISBN: 9789490322106
  • Johanna Günther Ed(s)
  • Hardcover, 330 pages
  • January 2010
  • €37,74 (excl. VAT)
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Without and Within

The richly illustrated book contains a series of essays that trace a thread of ideas, images and projections that connect the American territory as conceived by Thomas Jefferson to the contemporary continuous interior environment ubiquitous in ...

  • ISBN: 9789059730342
  • Mark Pimlott
  • Softcover, 336 pages
  • 2007
  • €37,74 (excl. VAT)
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Moderniteit in een behoudende omgeving: Jan Albarda en De Groep van Delft

In retrospect, Delft's Faculty of Architecture of the 1930s is perceived as a dark and introvert period of time when the conservatism of the Delftse School movement inhibited the progressive thinking of earlier years. However, the circumstances are ...

  • ISBN: 9789490322175
  • Jan Molema, Suzy Leemans
  • Softcover, 368 pages
  • June 2010
  • €36,32 (excl. VAT)
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The Wonderful World of VenhoevenCS Architects

This is the first monograph of the Amsterdam architecture firm VenhoevenCS, an ambitious and innovative office for architecture and urbanism. Their remarkable designs propose different ways in which people, animals and things can live together ...

  • ISBN: 9789059730731
  • Ton Venhoeven, et al.
  • Softcover, 296 pages
  • July 2009
  • €33,96 (excl. VAT)
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Dutchscapes

Dutch landscape photographer Jan Koster systematically photographed the Dutch coast: the dunes, the sea, the dikes. The end result of his lengthy forays along the Dutch coast, in search of suitable locations, is this beautiful series of photographs, ...

  • ISBN: 9789059731066
  • Tijs van den Boomen, Merel Bem
  • Softcover, 96 pages
  • 2009
  • €30,66 (excl. VAT)
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hunch No. 6/7

In this special edition of hunch the Berlage Institute organized an international symposium and this publication around the question: 'What will the architect enact tomorrow?' More than 100 international architects, theoreticians and critics were ...

  • ISBN: 9789080536265
  • Jennifer Sigler, Roemer van Toorn Ed(s)
  • Softcover, 540 pages
  • July 2003
  • €30,66 (excl. VAT)
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OpTrek in Transvaal. On the role of public art in urban development. Interventions and research.

In the Netherlands large-scale restructuring has been taking place for the past few decades in many of the older urban districts. The artist organisation, Mobiel Projectbureau OpTrek, an initiative of Sabrina Lindemann and Annechien Meier, has been ...

  • ISBN: 9789490322069
  • Veronica Hekking, Sabrina Lindemann, Annechien Meier Ed(s)
  • Softcover, 400 pages
  • April 2010
  • €29,72 (excl. VAT)
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Here/Hier: Frank Halmans

Dutch artist Frank Halmans (Heerlen 1963) has his own look at the built environment. In sculptures and models he examines the physical characteristics of the concept 'house' and ‘living’. In this monograph a comprehensive selection of his models, ...

  • ISBN: 9789490322144
  • Robbert Roos, Nils van Beek, Philip Peters, Tom van den Berge
  • Hardcover, 136 pages
  • March 2010
  • €28,30 (excl. VAT)
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PRESENT

This book is a detailed and illustrated overview of all the art commissioned under the 'one per cent' rule (which states that at least one per cent of the construction budget for a public building must be earmarked for art). Responding to the ...

  • ISBN: 9789059730601
  • Tanja Karreman, Janine Schulze, Huib Haye van der Werf Ed(s)
  • Softcover + DVD, 464 pages
  • 2007
  • €28,30 (excl. VAT)
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