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Articles
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This article considers several major repairs to Amsterdam buildings during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It concerns two types of reparation: strengthening of foundations and repair of supporting and roof structures. Foundation problems could be caused by a fluctuating groundwater level, an insufficiently deep foundation, or defects in the construction, sometimes compounded by irregularities in the natural marshy substratum. Apart from houses, whose foundations had already been reinforced much earlier, repairs to towers were undertaken from the early seventeenth century. This...
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In the post-war historiography of Dutch modern architecture, the monograph of Gerrit Rietveld written by the American architectural historian Theodore Morey Brown (1958) played a pioneering role. The Work of G. Rietveld, Architect was the first monograph of a by then already internationally renowned Dutch architect and since it was written in English it was also the only source of detailed information about Rietveld for an international readership. Brown was the first art historian in the Netherlands to write a dissertation on a living architect; as such, his book signalled the...
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The global automotive industry has undergone major developments in the last decade, perhaps the most decisive transformations in its one hundred-year existence. The current fundamental transition from a fossil fuel-driven motor to an electric power source heralds the end of an era. This revolutionary change is perhaps a good time to reflect upon the past one hundred years of fossil-fuel powered driving and in particular on its very distinctive service architecture. This article provides insight into the evolution from kerbside pump to self-service petrol station within the greater...
Book reviews
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Review of a book written by Basile Baudez
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Review of a book written by Leon Battista Alberti
Translation Gerard Bartelink, afterword Koen Ottenheym
