The New Tradition / De nieuwe traditie

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ISBN: 9789085066927
English/Dutch edition
SUN architecture
Softcover, 200 pages
21 x 27 cm
colour
2009
€32,55 (excl. VAT)

The New Tradition / De nieuwe traditie

Continuity and renewal in Dutch architecture

Hans Ibelings, Vincent van Rossem

This book should become a benchmark in the architectural reorientation that is beginning to take place, both in construction practice and in architectural criticism and history. Since the mid-1990s new approaches have arisen in architecture, urban construction and landscape architecture, in which continuity and building on tradition are central. The way in which such approaches relate to context, tradition and history is unmistakably contemporary, even though the results sometimes look like something we’ve seen before.

This publication examines the scale and the significance (from both a historical and a contemporary perspective) of contemporary traditionalism. The book deals not only with the work of prominent architect and offices such as Sjoerd Soeters, Scala, Molenaar & van Winden, Krier & Kohl and Mulleners & Mulleners, but also with architects who are less often in the limelight, such as Diederik Six, Friso Woudstra, Peter Verschuren and Pim Hienkens. Through a number of general themes, the book presents a way of thinking, a perspective on houses, neighbourhoods, villages, suburbs, cities and landscapes.