Indexing ESCI / Scopus
Articles
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Although no architectural project is built without construction workers, labourers remain woefully underrepresented in architectural and construction history. By tracing the emergence and development of the Algemene Centrale van de Bouw, the socialist construction workers’ union in Belgium, this article seeks to address that gap. It aims to move beyond the conventional emphasis on the relationship between workers and construction practice and to demonstrate how construction workers also had a significant impact on the legislative framework of the Belgian construction sector –...
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Jacobus Vrel is known as the painter of over twenty townscapes from the period 1640-1660, which is to say shortly before the active period of such specialists of the genre as Jan van der Heijden, Gerrit Berckheyde and Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraten. However, nothing is known about Vrel himself, and until recently it had proved impossible to pinpoint the location of his townscapes. Now a step-by-step analysis of a limited number of pictures using building history indicators, maps and other historical tools, has made it possible to decipher many of the topographical and architectural elements...
Book reviews
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Review of a book written by Arjan den Boer.
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Review of a book written by Jeroen Cornilly.
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Review of a book written by Angeline Basuki, Loes van Iperen, Ester van Steekelenburg, Petra Timmer (red.).
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Review of two books: the first one is written by Onno W. Boers (De Gevelstenen van Amsterda), the second book is written by Peter van Graafeiland (Waar Haarlem in de Gevel Staat).
