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Author | : Guus Kemme |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Amsterdam Architecture, a Guide is the ideal handbook for every visitor who wants to get to know Amsterdam's unique architecture better. This guide covers the architectonic history of the capital city of The Netherlands from the Middle Ages down through today, and includes over 400 buildings from the past and present, which are to be found both in the old city centre and in the outer neighbourhoods. This fifth edition includes the most recent construction projects in the still-growing city. Of course, it could not be without a special chapter on the Eastern Harbour area, one of the most heavily-visited architectonic highlights of The Netherlands. Amsterdam Architecture includes a concise introduction to the history of the city's development, about 400 full-colour illustrations, maps, useful addresses, a comprehensive index and a bibliography for readers interested in further study. Text in English
Author | : Nancy Stieber |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1998-07-20 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780226774176 |
Winner of the 1999 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. During the early 1900s, Amsterdam developed an international reputation as an urban mecca when invigorating reforms gave rise to new residential neighborhoods encircling the city's dispirited nineteenth-century districts. This new housing, built primarily with government subsidy, not only was affordable but also met rigorous standards of urban planning and architectural design. Nancy Stieber explores the social and political developments that fostered this innovation in public housing. Drawing on government records, professional journals, and polemical writings, Stieber examines how government supported large-scale housing projects, how architects like Berlage redefined their role as architects in service to society, and how the housing occupants were affected by public debates about working-class life, the cultural value of housing, and the role of art in society. Stieber emphasizes the tensions involved in making architectural design a social practice while she demonstrates the success of this collective enterprise in bringing about effective social policy and aesthetic progress.
Author | : Jaap Evert Abrahamse |
Publisher | : Nai010 Publishers |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Amsterdam's Oostelijk Havengebied or eastern docks area consists of a number of artificial archipelagos laid out around 1900. When the once-flourishing docks fell into disuse, it was decided to transform the area into a high-grade residential district. Begun in the 1970s, that transformation is now almost completed. Many big-name Dutch architects contributed to fleshing out these plans with housing. So the eastern docks area is not just a successful and highly sort-after residential district, it is as much a catalogue of 20 years of Dutch architecture and urbanism of the highest quality. This book gives a complete overview in words and images of the planning and architecture of these eastern harbour docklands supplemented by themed essays by specialists. The book also gives a broad overview of Dutch housing of the past few decades.
Author | : Hans van Dijk |
Publisher | : 010 Publishers |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9789064503474 |
Author | : Maarten Helle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Amsterdam (Netherlands) |
ISBN | : 9789078088257 |
Photographer Martin Helle presents here numerous images he has taken of the variety of letters, names and words he has found on the buildings of Amsterdam. He has concentrated on typography as part of the architecture.
Author | : Oskar Verkaaik |
Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2014-02-19 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9048518342 |
This essential study develops new anthropological perspectives on religious architecture, including mosques, churches, temples and synagogues. Borrowing from a range of theoretical perspectives on space-making and material religion, the authors consider how religious buildings take their place in opposition to the secular surroundings and the neoliberal city; how they, as evocations of the sublime, help believers move beyond the boundaries of modern subjectivity; and how international heritage status may conflict with their function as community centres. The volume includes contributions from a wide range of disciplines and regions, anthropologists, social historians, and architects working in Brazil, India, Italy, Mali, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, and the UK.
Author | : Sigfried Giedion |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 978 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780674830400 |
A classic first published in 1941, this is an unparalleled work on the shaping of our architectural environment. In his discussions of leading architects and styles, Giedion examines the evolving of new traditions; the strengthening of its plastic tendencies and conditions for further evolution; the urban renewal boom of the fifties; and the development of regionalism by creatively oriented architects.
Author | : Daniel M. Zolli |
Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2021-03-30 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 904854100X |
The concepts of purity and contamination preoccupied early modern Europeans fundamentally, structuring virtually every aspect of their lives, not least how they created and experienced works of art and the built environment. In an era that saw a great number of objects and people in motion, the meteoric rise of new artistic and building technologies, and religious upheaval exert new pressures on art and its institutions, anxieties about the pure and the contaminated - distinctions between the clean and unclean, sameness and difference, self and other, organization and its absence - took on heightened importance. In this series of geographically and methodologically wide-ranging essays, thirteen leading historians of art and architecture grapple with the complex ways that early modern actors negotiated these concerns, covering topics as diverse as Michelangelo's unfinished sculptures, Venetian plague hospitals, Spanish-Muslim tapestries, and emergency currency. The resulting volume offers surprising new insights into the period and into the modern disciplinary routines of art and architectural history.
Author | : Rijksmuseum (Netherlands) |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300212879 |
Discusses the Asian luxury goods that were imported into the Netherlands during the 17th century and demonstrates the overwhelming impact these works of art had on Dutch life and art during the Golden Age
Author | : Ann Sutherland Harris |
Publisher | : Laurence King Publishing |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781856694155 |
Encompassing the socio-political, cultural background of the period, this title takes a look at the careers of the Old Masters and many lesser-known artists. The book covers artistic developments across six countries and examines in detail many of the artworks on display.