Plan B "Best Architecture Book of the Year" in the Netherlands

Totally thrilling news has reached me from the Netherlands: my book Plan B: Ontwerpen in een Complexe Wereld (Plan B: Designing In A Complex World) has been selected by the influential magazine de Architect as their best architecture book of the year. I would like to share this good fortune with you, too: if you forgot to send any of your Dutch-speaking friends a present this year send them Plan B as the perfect New Year's gift. It will make my publishers, SUN, happy too.

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Comments [4]

And when it comes in English?

Aline Dantas de Araújo D'Amore
01.05.11
09:27

Tell the publishers I will buy it as soon as it is in English!
As the book implies designing is complex enough without having to learn Dutch as well.........

Marco Goldschmied
01.24.11
10:49

This is a Dutch translation of "In the Bubble", with 4 chapters added...

Wijnand IJsselsteijn
01.25.11
05:30

I'm talking to the publishers, MIT Press, about doing a revised In The Bubble 2.0. if for any reason that doesn't work out I'll post the new materials online anyway.

john thackara
01.27.11
12:53

John Thackara is a writer, speaker and design producer, and director of Doors of Perception. In addition to this blog, he is the author of twelve books including In The Bubble: Designing In A Complex World and Wouldn’t It Be Great If….

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