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Architecture:
past and present
Besides the many 16th century renaissance houses with their
stepped gables, neck gables and bell-shaped gables and the
usually larger 17th century classicistic buildings in the
old Dutch town centres you will also find an austere functionalistic
20th century architecture of which especially Rotterdam, the
outstanding architectural town in this country, shows some
striking examples.
In the 18th century the influence of French architecture,
the so-called Lodewijk (Louis) style, was dominant.
By 1830 many architects were fascinated by the castles and
cathedrals of the late Middle Ages, the Gothic period. P.J.H.
Cuypers designed and built a large number of Neo-gothic churches
in Holland which are also part of our programme.
The Public Housing Act of 1901 paved the way for public housing
and spatial planning in the Netherlands.
In order to become acquainted with council housing, in which
Holland leads the way in Europe, a visit to the new towns
of the Flevopolder is essential. Here one can also admire
examples of a - for the Netherlands - rather exceptional private
experimental house-building project. Our programme will also
pay attention to house-building for the less socially privileged,
this time not initiated by the government, but by 19th century
benefactors.
You can also see several masterpieces by Berlage and Dudok,
two famous Dutch architects, and respectively exponents of
rationalism and expressionism.
The expressive gable architecture of the Amsterdam School
can also be admired in other cities. Although the postmodernism
of the eighties was not prominent in the Netherlands, we can
nevertheless show you a beautiful example of this style.
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