This book is not simply an overview of the architecture and urban planning by Van Sambeek & Van Veen. It can also be read as a book about a specific approach to architecture and urban planning. It mirrors a design philosophy that expresses rigour and consistency. The architecture and urban plans that spring from this stance are characterized by a strict and in many respects highly personal logic. The book therefore presents more than just an impression of an oeuvre that is still growing and evolving, but also reveals a universe in which order and organization occupy a crucial place. The disturbance, reinforcement and revision of the existing order are inextricably linked with every spatial intervention that an architect makes. For Van Sambeek & Van Veen, herein lies the very essence of architecture. The awareness of order can be concisely detected in each project, and also in this book. The book's structure follows a path similar to that for the creation of an architectural or urban
