The In Practice series explores the multiple ways in which architects can engage their professional architecture practice in academic research and reciprocally. The series seeks to open a space for architecture practices in research through the development of methodologies, conferences, publications and studios. For the fourth book in the series, Dyvik Kahlen architects explore the design process of the Villa Ruba, located near Utrecht.

Together with Fabrizio Ballabio, they develop the compositional research related to the historic typology of the villa and to the specificities of the sloping park in which it is located, and reveal how Virtual Reality is used to investigate the spatiality of the project before its realization on the construction site. Additional contributions evoke the role of annotation as a design tool, the ambivalence of a classical and vernacular project, and the entanglement of contemporary architecture with pop culture.

Edited by Harold Fallon, Benoît Vandenbulcke, Benoît Burquel.

MER B.&L., 2023

24 X 17 cm, 192 pages