Main entry:

Woud, Auke van der.

Title & Author:

The art of building : from classicism to modernity : the Dutch architectural debate 1840-1990 / Auke van der Woud ; [translated from the Dutch].

Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2001.

Description:

xi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Series:

Reinterpreting classicism

Notes:
Translation of: Waarheid en karakter.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index.
pt. 1. The enlightenment inheritance : Character, truth and style -- 1. Europe and the Netherlands : The years before 1840 -- 2. A new spirit in Dutch architecture : the 1840s -- 3. Post-classicism, and classicism in disguise : the 1850s -- pt. 2. Architecture and the world outside : the 1860-1880s -- 4. The rise of the public -- 5. The fall of theory -- 6. The rules of art in the market-place -- 7. Fashion, competition and picturesque versus monumental -- 8. On the brink of change -- pt. 3. Style or no style? The 1890s and the new movement -- 9. Image building -- 10. Concepts for a new age : sublime beauty, personal taste, and the importance of quite ordinary things.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"The first monograph in English on Dutch architectural theory and the public debate on architecture in nineteenth-century Amsterdam, this book is also the first full-scale study of nineteenth-century architectural theory to take into account the recent reassessment of the Modernist bias in much architectural history." "Auke van der Woud reveals how, caught in the tide of expansion and change sweeping across Europe at the time, Dutch architects, patrons and builders fought to consolidate their country's history and cultural identity through architecture. He shows that rival factions, in an attempt to sequester the mystique of the Dutch Golden Age, advocated various ideas and theories about Gothic, Classical and Dutch Renaissance architecture, but that in the end architectural practice made architectural theory irrelevant. Extensively illustrated with period photographs, many by the pioneer of Dutch photography, Jacob Olie, this book is an excellent introduction to the development of nineteenth-century architecture in The Netherlands."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0754602540 (acid-free paper)
9780754602545 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Architecture Netherlands History 19th century.
Architecture Netherlands History 20th century.
Architecture Netherlands 19th century.
Architecture Pays-Bas 19e siècle.
Architecture Pays-Bas Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture Pays-Bas Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture
Architektur
Architecture, Modern 19th century Netherlands.
Architecture Philosophy Netherlands 19th century.
Architecture Philosophy
Classicism in architecture Netherlands.
Netherlands
Niederlande

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Added entries:

Reinterpreting classicism.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 220712
Call No.: NA1147 .W62 2001
Status: Available