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Articles
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Between 1929 and 1938 the Gratama and Dinger architectural practice produced a great many branch offices for the Incasso Bank. Jan Gratama (1877-1947) was responsible for their design. Internationally, the year 1929 was of enormous economic and political importance. The stock market crash in New York, ushered in by Black Thursday on 24 October, caused share prices worldwide to plummet. The immediate consequence was the Great Depression of the 1930s. Banks failed, debts piled up and many Dutch households ran into financial difficulties. This volatile climate was an ideal political...
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The Belgian architect Victor Horta (1861-1947) spent most of the First World War in the United States. Over the course of three years, from December 1915 to January 1919, he explored how the American skyscrapers, standardized dwellings and ingenious urban planning might serve as a model for a modern, post-war Belgium.
Yet Horta’s memoirs had very little to say about his discussion of American architecture or any influence his travels might have had on his post-war work. This article consequently breaks new ground in examining the various talks on the subject that Horta gave in...
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Pieter Simon Dijkstra (1884-1968) is regarded as a noted Protestant church designer in South Africa, but his contribution to the built environment in the Netherlands is much less well known. His life and career in the country of his birth are of interest because they are closely aligned with the religious turbulence of the period, in which the anti-revolutionary clergyman-politician Abraham Kuyper played a prominent role. The building of new Reformed churches and schools was a direct expression of the zealous determination to spread the ‘true faith’. The architecture of the new Reformed...
Book reviews
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Review of a book written by Koen Vermeij, Henk Kaan and Daan den Hengst (eds)
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Review of a book written by Iwan Strauven
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Review of a book written by Edwin Orsel
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Review of a book written by Ton Kappelhof, Karel Leenders, Jan Willem Messer; Paul Klep (eds)
