Download or read book The Socius of Architecture written by Ad Graafland and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tri-part investigation of architecture, urbanism and design proposals. Critical analysis, sociological research and architectural projects. Critical position regarding the possibility of architecture to engage in the current socio political discourse. Analysis of the Kunsthal in Rotterdam and IJ Bank and Westerdok projects of the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. Description of the cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Tokyo. Design proposal for architectural projects and urban research.
Download or read book Amsterdam Architecture written by Guus Kemme and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Amsterdam Architecture written by Paul Broers and published by THOTH. This book was released on 1996 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perfect travel companion! The guide leads you to the architectural history of the capital of the Netherlands. Over 300 examples describe the buildings from the medieval times up to the end of the 20th Century.
Download or read book Eastern Harbour District Amsterdam written by Jaap Evert Abrahamse and published by Nai010 Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Twentieth century Architecture in the Netherlands written by Hans van Dijk and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Amsterdam School written by Maristella Casciato and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first years of this century witnessed the birth in Amsterdam of a movement which with its sculptural opulence of form would alter dramatically the appearance of that city. Under the leadership of architects like Wijdeveld, Kramer and De Klerk there evolved an expressionist visual language which under the name of Amsterdam School would create a stir on an international scale. Here, aided by almost 500 illustrations, is a comprehensive survey of many designs produced by the Amsterdam School, including such masterpieces as Van der Mey's Scheepvaarthuis, Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South, Kramer's bridges and De Klerk's De Dageraad and Eigen Haard housing estates. The work also deals with the carvings of Hildo Krop, street furniture, furniture designs and domestic interiors. The extensive bibliography and biographies of the most important architects make this an indispensable work of reference."--
Download or read book The Amsterdam Town Hall in Words and Images written by Stijn Bussels and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most famous monument of the Dutch Golden Age is undoubtedly the Amsterdam Town Hall by architect Jacob van Campen inaugurated in 1655. Today we stand in awe confronted with the grand Classicist façade, the delightful horror of the sculptures in the Tribunal, and the magnificence of the huge Citizens' Hall. In the period of its construction, many artists and writers tried to capture the overwhelming impact of the building by, among other comparisons, relating it to the ancient Wonders of the World and by stressing its splendour, riches, and impressive scale. In doing so, they constructed the Town Hall as the ultimate wonder, thus offering a silent, but very powerful testimony to the power and position of the City of Amsterdam and its rulers as equals of the other European regimes. To fully understand these mechanisms of power, this book relates the Town Hall to other, impressive buildings of the same period-the palace of the Louvre, Saint Peter's Basilica, and Banqueting House-and their visual and textual representations. Thus, this book gives a broad audience of readers new insights into the agency of magnificent buildings. The Amsterdam Town Hall in Words and Images does not restrict itself to a national scope or a purely architectural analysis, but clarifies how artists and writers all over Europe presented buildings as wonders of the world. This book is pioneering in its analysis of seventeenth and eighteenth-century paintings, prints, drawings, poems, and travel accounts and offers a new understanding of how the wondrous character of these grand buildings was constructed.
Download or read book Amsterdam Architecture City written by PAUL. GROENENDIJK and published by . This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gids voor moderne architectuur in Amsterdam Guide to Modern Architecture in Amsterdam written by Paul Groenendijk and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gebouwen en stedenbouwkundige projecten in Amsterdam in de periode van 1900 tot heden.
Download or read book The Amsterdam School written by Wim de Wit and published by New York : Cooper-Hewitt Museum ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only is this book the first in English to consider the formal and stylistic aspects of the Amsterdam School's work, it is also the first to relate the drawings and projects to the deeply-rooted social vision of the group, which sought to transform the world through architecture.
Download or read book Amsterdam architecture written by Maaike Behm and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issue 24 in the ARCAM Pocket series contains illustrations and descriptions of 25 architectural highlights built in Amsterdam in 2010: houseboats and workboats, faculty buildings for the city's two universities, closed work buildings and open offices, housing complexes built as part of urban renewal and urban expansion schemes, including one on water. Includes works by Benthem Crouwel Architekten, Claus en Kaan Architecten, Onix, SeARCH, Rudy Uytenhaak and others.
Download or read book Amsterdam architecture written by Maarten Kloos and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a richly illustrated selection of architecture built in Amsterdam in 2008, this pocket edition provides an essential guide and includes project descriptions, route directions and a city map. Alongside large housing complexes and private houses, the guide also features commercial buildings, offices and cultural facilities designed by such offices as: Architekten Cie, Atelier Kempe Thill, Claus en Kaan, MVRDV, Foster & Partners and Van den Oever Zaaijer architects.
Download or read book Passion and Control Dutch Architectural Culture of the Eighteenth Century written by Freek Schmidt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passion and Control explores Dutch architectural culture of the eighteenth century, revealing the central importance of architecture to society in this period and redefining long-established paradigms of early modern architectural history. Architecture was a passion for many of the men and women in this book; wealthy patrons, burgomasters, princes and scientists were all in turn infected with architectural mania. It was a passion shared with artists, architects and builders, and a vast cast of Dutch society who contributed to a complex web of architectural discourse and who influenced building practice. The author presents a rich tapestry of sources to reconstruct the cultural context and meaning of these buildings as they were perceived by contemporaries, including representations in texts, drawings and prints, and builds on recent research by cultural historians on consumerism, material culture and luxury, print culture and the public sphere, and the history of ideas and mentalities.
Download or read book Housing Design and Society in Amsterdam written by Nancy Stieber and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-07-20 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Amsterdam in letters written by Maarten Helle and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Seventeenth century Art and Architecture written by Ann Sutherland Harris and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Space Time and Architecture written by Sigfried Giedion and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
