25 september 1520: met de nodige precisie wordt het vergulde kruis op de vieringtoren van de Bavo geplaatst, 78 meter boven de grond. De kerk is nu officieel ‘af’, ook al zou er nog veel aan gebouwd, verbouwd en gerestaureerd worden.

Dit boek beschrijft de geschiedenis van de Bavo, de maatschappelijke, religieuze en culturele betekenis van de kerk voor de stad Haarlem, het interieur, de glazen, het wereldberoemde orgel, de ‘grote restauratie’ door voornamelijk Pierre Cuypers en nog ve...

Dit fraaie boek toont wat er tussen 1965 en 1995 is gebouwd in Den Haag en wat deze architectuur en stedenbouw kenmerkt. Landelijk krijgt dit zogenaamde Post 65-erfgoed steeds meer aandacht. Dat is hard nodig. Veel van deze gebouwen worden namelijk alweer gesloopt terwijl het misschien toekomstige monumenten zijn.

‘The great-grandfather I never knew has gradually become closer to me as I read what was written about him and discovered the circumstances in which he must have lived and worked. It has become Jos’s story, following his path from budding architect to the one who has the age I have now. For me it also became an act of looking back.’

Architect Jos Viérin (1872-1949) played a prominent role in the reconstruction of the Destroyed Regions. After World War I, it was decided to reconstruct i...

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