The idea of this book developed out of a conference held at Cambridge
University in July 2007. Several institutions and people made this event,
and thus the book, possible. The editors would like to thank the Centre
for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)
at Cambridge, in particular Mary Jacobus and Anna Malinowska, for
their support of this project. Vital financial support was provided by
the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, by the Departments of
Architecture and of German and Dutch at the University of Cambridge,
the Cambridge Forum for the Construction Industry, and Shape East.
Peter Carl and Rositza Alexandrova were instrumental in bringing the
original concept to fruition. At Palgrave, Christabel Scaife has been supportive
throughout