Dutch edition ISBN 9789076863757Located on the water along the quay of the northern banks of the IJ in Amsterdam is one of the few remnants of the this city’s rich port history: het Kraanspoor. An office building, 270 metres long and approximately 13 metres wide, now stands where ships used to be loaded and unloaded. With a flourish, het Kraanspoor put a forgotten city district in the international limelight, transforming it into one of the most coveted locations in Amsterdam, where a variet...

SEA OF LAND introduces the polder as an important piece in the jigsaw puzzle of Dutch national identity. What is a polder, really, and how is it structured as an artificial landscape, what are its peculiar qualities, and how can it be developed further?SEA OF LAND describes the history, design and development of the most famous Dutch land reclamation projects in their relationships to one another. What is new here is that this is done from the perspective of landscape architectonics. For the ...

The northern Italian architect Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548-1616) completed a comprehensive study of ancient classical architecture, including the possibilities for its application in a modern context. The original text is in Italian and was all the rage in the Dutch architectural world during the Golden Age. The treatise `The Idea of a Universal Architecture' was highly influential in the construction of the Amsterdam canal belt, among other things. Several parts of Scamozzi's treatise were also ...

The advocates of urban renewal met their Waterloo in the Amsterdam Jordaan district. As recently as 1975, the Amsterdam city council made a serious proposal to demolish the Jordaan, but outraged district residents managed to scuttle the plan. In a structure which originally contained seven apartments, where at least 35 people lived, habits now four people. The district has changed entirely. This illustrates that new uses of a district in no way require demolition. The city's architectural sto...

Amsterdam Gardens Canal District

A selection of these wonderful gardens with coach houses and gardens houses is open all year.

Dit boek is het resultaat van een onderzoek naar een architectonisch type, het cultuurgebouw en naar

de rol die 'cultuur' heeft bij de realisering van een democratische maatschappij. Het boek People's

Palaces is geschreven rondom twee specifieke projecten, de South Bank in Londen, met de Festival

Hall ontworpen in 1948 en geopend in 1951, de Hayward Gallery/ Queen Elizabeth Hall, ontworpen in

1960/61 en het Kulturhus in Stockholm, ontworpen in 1966/67 en gerealiseerd tot 1974. De keuze

voor d...

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Eerste boek over de Amsterdamse architect Philip (F.A.) Warners die in het interbellum een pioniersrol vervulde bij de introductie van het luxe appartementencomplex in Amsterdam. De rijk gedetailleerde interieurs van een aantal van deze gebouwen Westhove, Loma, De Steenhoek en Oldenhoeck zijn gefotografeerd door Arjan Bronkhorst. Dit materiaal, met originele tekeningen en plattegronden levert een nieuwe kijk op de periode van de Amsterdamse School. War...