Dirk Sijmons
Landscape Architect, Utrecht, Netherlands
February 10, 2009
Selective Bibliography
Website: H+N+S Landschapsarchitecten
Books:
Greetings from Europe : landscape & leisure / project instigator: Dirk Sijmons ; editorial team: Niek Hazendonk, Mark Hendriks, Hans Venema ; contributions by: Annika van Dijk … [et al.]. – Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2008. Book + DVD.
Loeb Design |GV 188.3 .E8 G644 2008 [DVD shelved in Visual Resources department]
Memory & transformation / [compiled and edited by Bert van Meggelen ; with contributions by Henk van Blerck … [et al.]; editor, Olof Koekebakker ; translation, Peter Mason. – Rotterdam: NAi Publishers ; International Triennial Apeldoom, 2008. Includes: Turbulence in the countryside : interview with Dirk Sijmons.
Loeb Design |SB 469.77 .A62 2008
Een plan dat werkt : ontwerp en politiek in de regionale planvorming / Maarten Hajer, Dirk Sijmonds, Fred Feddes. – Rotterdam : NAi Uitgevers, 2006.
Loeb Design |HT 395 .N4 P446 2006
= Landscape / editor, Dirk Sijmons ; [translation, Gregory Ball ; illustration editing by Harma Horlings and Liesbeth Rijnja]. – Amsterdam: Architectura + Natura, 2002.
[“= Landscape is a revised version of = Landschap published in 1998”]
Loeb Design |SB 470.55 .N4 L36 2002
Landkaartmos en andere beschouwingen over landschap / Dirk Sijmons met Fred Feddes en anderen. – Rotterdam: Uitgeveri 010, 2002.
Loeb Design |SB 472.45 .S548 2002
= Landschap / samemstelling, Dirk Sijmons ; [redactie, Hans Venema ; voorwoord, Rik Herngreen ; bijdragen, Noel van Dooren … et al.]. – Amsterdam : Architectura + Natura : distributed outside the Netherlands by Idea Books, 1998.
Dumbarton Oaks |SB 470.55 .N4 A15 1998X
Articles:
Het landschap als historische montage: een gesprek tussen Jan Kolen en Dirk Sijmons = The landscape as historical montage: a dialogue between Jan Kolen and Dirk Sijmons. In: OASE: tijdschrift voor architectuur = OASE: architectural journal, 2006, n.69, p.[80]-93.
Der Ausrüstung kann man keine Schuld geben = You can’t blame the equipment / Dirk Sijmons. In: Topos: European landscape magazine, March 2005, n.50, p.51-62.
From daisy to delta: the landscape architect (not) in today’s society / Dirk Sijmons. In: Hunch: the Berlage Institute report, Summer 2003, n.6-7, p.411-414. [The seventy-ninth of ‘109 provisional attempts to address six simple and hard questions about what architects do today and where their profession might go tomorrow.’ Sijmons is one of 109 architects, artists, writers and critics to address questions posed by editor Roemer van Toorn in his introduction, ‘Beyond Wonderland,’, p.10-11.]
Contouren: in aqua scribis? = Contours: in aqua scribis? / Dirk Sijmons, Lodewijk van Nieuwenhuijze. In: OASE: tijdschrift voor architectuur = OASE: architectural journal, Winter 2002, n.60, p.[31]-[47]. [Examination of the possible advantages and the expected risks and disadvantages of the contour approach to planning in the Netherlands. Its aim is to contour the wasteful use of space by reducing urban expansion.]
Pleidooi voor rijkgeschakeerde stadslandschappen = [An argument in favor of richly variegated urban landscapes]: contouren ontkennen complexe ruimtelijke werkelijkheid. In: Architect, February 2002, v.33, p.30-33.
The accomplished fiction: the promise of the regional plan [Netherlands] / Dirk Sijmons. In: Archis, 2002, n.4, p.71-77.
Extra-architectural life in the void?: Dirk Sijmons. In: Berlage cahiers, 1977-1988, n.7, p.[66]-67. [First-year studio/core design project with Sijmons at Berlage Instituut on northwest of Maastricht.]
Nu ingrijpen!: eco-loodgieters over noodzaak van groene investeringen. In: Bouw, November 1995, v.50, n.11, p.40-43. [Issues of greenspaces and ecology in planning, discussed by Dirk Sijmons and Lodewijk van Nieuwenhuijze.]
De fascinatie voor het gewone: zes interviews over ontwerponderwijs / Bart Goldhoorn, Arjen Oosterman. In: Archis, March 1991, n.3, p.42-48. [Six Dutch architects and landscape architects discuss design education: Adriaan Geuze, Dirk Sijmons, Gerard van Zeije, Wim van den Bergh, Frits van Dongen, and Henk Engel.]