Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Unmodern Architecture: Contemporary Traditionalism in the Netherlands

4/5 ( ratings)

In the Netherlands, bastion of modernism, neomodernism, and supermodernism, contemporary traditionalism has been causing a stir since the 1990s. No fly-by-night trend is this. Throughout the country, years' worth of architectural and urban projects have been lined up by foreign designers such as Rob Krier, Adolfo Natalini, and Charles Vandenhove, and by Dutch practices such as Soeters Van Eldonk Ponec, Molenaar en Van Winden, and Scala. What unites these architects is their rejection of what Scala's Peter Drijver calls the "panting urge for innovation" possessed by most comtemporary architects. Instead of innovation, today's traditionalists tap into what is already there, drawing from the past and preferring means that have already proven their worth. In Hans Ibelings' Contemporary Traditionalism, the style is stripped of all populist and moralist arguments, and is analyzed from different angles: as an atypical Dutch phenomenon and an international movement, as a precursor of 70s and 80s postmodern thinking, as part of a traditionalist undercurrent reaching back at least a century, as an intellectual reaction to the limitations of modernism, and commercially, as a form of niche marketing for nostalgic imagery. By placing contemporary traditionalism in an international and historical perspective, Ibelings' answers the question of what contemporary traditionalism has to offer a 21st-century society.

Language: English

Pages: 144

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Nai010 Publishers

Release: January 01, 2004

ISBN: 9056623524

ISBN 13: 9789056623524

Unmodern Architecture: Contemporary Traditionalism in the Netherlands

4/5 ( ratings)

In the Netherlands, bastion of modernism, neomodernism, and supermodernism, contemporary traditionalism has been causing a stir since the 1990s. No fly-by-night trend is this. Throughout the country, years' worth of architectural and urban projects have been lined up by foreign designers such as Rob Krier, Adolfo Natalini, and Charles Vandenhove, and by Dutch practices such as Soeters Van Eldonk Ponec, Molenaar en Van Winden, and Scala. What unites these architects is their rejection of what Scala's Peter Drijver calls the "panting urge for innovation" possessed by most comtemporary architects. Instead of innovation, today's traditionalists tap into what is already there, drawing from the past and preferring means that have already proven their worth. In Hans Ibelings' Contemporary Traditionalism, the style is stripped of all populist and moralist arguments, and is analyzed from different angles: as an atypical Dutch phenomenon and an international movement, as a precursor of 70s and 80s postmodern thinking, as part of a traditionalist undercurrent reaching back at least a century, as an intellectual reaction to the limitations of modernism, and commercially, as a form of niche marketing for nostalgic imagery. By placing contemporary traditionalism in an international and historical perspective, Ibelings' answers the question of what contemporary traditionalism has to offer a 21st-century society.

Language: English

Pages: 144

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Nai010 Publishers

Release: January 01, 2004

ISBN: 9056623524

ISBN 13: 9789056623524

More books from Hans Ibelings

Supermodernism

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Town Spaces: Contemporary Interpretations in Traditional Urbanism

Rise and Sprawl: The Condominiumization of Toronto

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Superstudio: The Middelburg Lectures

3.9/5 ( ratings)

West 8: Mosaics

European Architecture Since 1890

�lvaro Siza: Modern Redux

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Nederlandse Architectuur van de 20ste eeuw

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The Artificial Landscape: Contemporary Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape Architecture in the Netherlands

4.5/5 ( ratings)

De nieuwe traditie: continuïteit en vernieuwing in de Nederlandse architectuur = The new tradition : continuity and renewal in Dutch architecture

2.5/5 ( ratings)

Tham And Videgard Arkitekter

Powerhouse Company: Ouvertures

Eastern Docklands Amsterdam: Urbanism And Architecture

Supermodernisme. Architectuur in het tijdperk van globalisering (Fascinaties /6.)

Meyer en Van Schooten Architects / Volume 1

Architecture in the Netherlands: Yearbook 1998/1999

Jacq. De Brouwer

Designing for the Public: Flemish Government Architect 1999-2009

Claus en Kaan Architecten : the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Mozambique

Oostoever, Sloterplas

Rate this book!

Write a review?