From the 1960s, Dutch mass housing construction was for a while dominated by modernism. Housing developments shot up in double quick time – after the existing cultural landscape had first been totally erased. In both typology and architecture, planners and architects strove to avoid any sense of continuity between these new estates and their predecessors: architecture was no more than the expression of function by means of material and technology. The following period saw the construction of housing estates that didn’t really want to be housing estates, aspiring instead to be a Zuiderzee town (Almere Haven), a collage of contrived themes (Kattenbroek in Amersfoort), or a Dutch canal city (Brandevoort in Helmond). Clearly, there c...
In 1655-1656 the ceilings of the Weeskamer and the Thesaurie Ordinaris of the Amsterdam town hall we...
The hereafter following is abstract of the discourse held by Prof. dr. ir. C. L. Temminck Groll in h...
Remarkably little has been written about the popular yet unassuming painting The Little Street (Rijk...
In Dutch history the years between 1945 and 1965 are regarded as the period of post-war recovery and...
The article provides insight into the phenomenon of the ‘traditional Dutch room’ as an icon of the D...
Reconstructions of vanished buildings are new creations, lacking unity of time, place and fun...
Authenticity is a key criterion in the evaluation of heritage. This article sets out to show that th...
This article seeks to determine the significance of the De Hoeve country house in the oeuvre of Robe...
The Dutch Monuments and Historic Buildings Act dates from 1961. Naturally, the Act was primarily int...
This article is an appeal for independent, broad architectural-historical research prior to the rede...
The article provides insight into the phenomenon of the ‘traditional Dutch room’ as an icon of the D...
The front elevation of the Ridderzaal (Knights’ Hall) in the Binnenhof in The Hague is one of the be...
The hereafter following has been pronounced on the symposium 'Holland at its Highest' organized by t...
In the 1960s and ’70s, the modernist architect Piet Zanstra was at the helm of one of the bigge...
Alexander Jacobus Kropholler played a remarkable role in a very eventful period in Dutch architectur...
In 1655-1656 the ceilings of the Weeskamer and the Thesaurie Ordinaris of the Amsterdam town hall we...
The hereafter following is abstract of the discourse held by Prof. dr. ir. C. L. Temminck Groll in h...
Remarkably little has been written about the popular yet unassuming painting The Little Street (Rijk...
In Dutch history the years between 1945 and 1965 are regarded as the period of post-war recovery and...
The article provides insight into the phenomenon of the ‘traditional Dutch room’ as an icon of the D...
Reconstructions of vanished buildings are new creations, lacking unity of time, place and fun...
Authenticity is a key criterion in the evaluation of heritage. This article sets out to show that th...
This article seeks to determine the significance of the De Hoeve country house in the oeuvre of Robe...
The Dutch Monuments and Historic Buildings Act dates from 1961. Naturally, the Act was primarily int...
This article is an appeal for independent, broad architectural-historical research prior to the rede...
The article provides insight into the phenomenon of the ‘traditional Dutch room’ as an icon of the D...
The front elevation of the Ridderzaal (Knights’ Hall) in the Binnenhof in The Hague is one of the be...
The hereafter following has been pronounced on the symposium 'Holland at its Highest' organized by t...
In the 1960s and ’70s, the modernist architect Piet Zanstra was at the helm of one of the bigge...
Alexander Jacobus Kropholler played a remarkable role in a very eventful period in Dutch architectur...
In 1655-1656 the ceilings of the Weeskamer and the Thesaurie Ordinaris of the Amsterdam town hall we...
The hereafter following is abstract of the discourse held by Prof. dr. ir. C. L. Temminck Groll in h...
Remarkably little has been written about the popular yet unassuming painting The Little Street (Rijk...