Ruins in the Netherlands / Ruïnes in Nederland XIX

Architecture

ISBN: 9789059730922
English/Dutch edition
Jap Sam Books
Softcover, 208 pages
18 x 21 cm
black & white
2008
€21,23 (excl. VAT)

Ruins in the Netherlands / Ruïnes in Nederland XIX–XXI

Lara Almarcegui

For the purpose of this fascinating guide, a building is considered a ruin when its windows or doors are no longer intact or when walls or roofs have holes. The result: the building is exposed to the weather, to wind and rain, to invasions by wildlife and vegetation. Ruins in the Netherlands focuses on buildings that are in the process of the merging of building and nature. The buildings in this guide are not the idealized ruins of churches or cottages so beloved of the Romantic poets: most of them are at an earlier stage, more recently abandoned, though some are little more than a pile of rubble. The important thing to notice is that each ruin is open to all kinds of possibilities. A unique publication exploring the architectural ruins from our contemporary culture.