From 10 to 18 November 1945, an exhibition was held in the Arti et Amicitiae artists’ society in Amsterdam that lasted only a week but received a great deal of attention in various newspapers. The subject was ‘Bouwen van woning tot stad’ (Building from house to city), ‘a study of housing development plans which were produced in the years 1943-1945 by the architects A. Boeken, J.H.L. Giesen, A. Komter, A. Staal, K.L. Sijmons Dzn., S. van Woerden and P. Zanstra for a book to be published’ on behalf of a group of ten building contractors. The designs were held together by an alternative expansion plan to replace the General Expansion Plan (AUP), approved by the municipal council in 1935. ‘The new plan suggests such healthy and fresh ideas that...
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From 10 to 18 November 1945, an exhibition was held in the Arti et Amicitiae artists’ society in Ams...
From 10 to 18 November 1945, an exhibition was held in the Arti et Amicitiae artists’ society in Ams...
This article focuses on Bouw en Techniek (1930-1931), a trade journal for the building industry and ...
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In the 1930s, as Chief Inspector of the Amsterdam Municipal Building and Housing Department, Eelke v...
Since 2016 the city of Amsterdam, which is famed for its expansion plans, has been focusing on densi...
The question whether urban-planning considerations played a part in the planning process around the ...
The creation of this international showcase of ‘domestic culture’ dates back to 1960, when the Bouwf...
From 10 to 18 November 1945, an exhibition was held in the Arti et Amicitiae artists’ society in Ams...
Before building on the Amsterdam Town Hall was started in 1648 in accordance with the design of Jaco...
Not so very long ago, renovation or wholesale maintenance of post-war housing was not an activity yo...
In the icily cold night of February 12, 1929 the greater part of the Town Hall in Leiden was reduced...
Waag on Nieuwmarkt was built as a city gate and later transformed into a weigh house. The numerous d...
Architect H.G.J. Schelling, originally a civil engineer, designed several railway stations in the Ne...
From 10 to 18 November 1945, an exhibition was held in the Arti et Amicitiae artists’ society in Ams...
From 10 to 18 November 1945, an exhibition was held in the Arti et Amicitiae artists’ society in Ams...
This article focuses on Bouw en Techniek (1930-1931), a trade journal for the building industry and ...
In the 1960s and ’70s, the modernist architect Piet Zanstra was at the helm of one of the bigge...
During the Dutch Golden Age, Amsterdam grew from a modest little town on the river Amstel into a pow...
In the 1930s, as Chief Inspector of the Amsterdam Municipal Building and Housing Department, Eelke v...
Since 2016 the city of Amsterdam, which is famed for its expansion plans, has been focusing on densi...
The question whether urban-planning considerations played a part in the planning process around the ...
The creation of this international showcase of ‘domestic culture’ dates back to 1960, when the Bouwf...
From 10 to 18 November 1945, an exhibition was held in the Arti et Amicitiae artists’ society in Ams...
Before building on the Amsterdam Town Hall was started in 1648 in accordance with the design of Jaco...
Not so very long ago, renovation or wholesale maintenance of post-war housing was not an activity yo...
In the icily cold night of February 12, 1929 the greater part of the Town Hall in Leiden was reduced...
Waag on Nieuwmarkt was built as a city gate and later transformed into a weigh house. The numerous d...
Architect H.G.J. Schelling, originally a civil engineer, designed several railway stations in the Ne...