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The multicultural society makes the Netherlands interesting for foreign architects. The New York-based architecture bureau... Designers: Asymptote |
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Correspondence, speech and manifesto for the Team 10 conference In 1959 the Netherlands was the stage of world history, when a small group of... Designers: Team 10 |
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Dutch Pavilion Osaka World Fair Under the motto “Progress and Harmony for Mankind”, the World Exposition in Osaka (1970) was... Designers: Jacob Berend Bakema and Carlos José Maria Weeber |
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Wijdeveld was a great admirer and tireless promoter of Frank Lloyd Wright’s work. In 1925,... Designers: Hendrik Wijdeveld |
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Bakema designed the 125-meter observation tower on the occasion of the first international horticulture exhibition... Designers: Jacob Berend Bakema |
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This design for a plate is one of a series of eighteen ornamental motives and... Designers: Hendricus Petrus Berlage |
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The winner of the Prix de Rome was announced in 1947. Jaap Schipper receives the... Designers: Adrianus Carolus Nicolaï |
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Sketchbook of the Grand Tour through Italy When leafing through these sketches, it is difficult to imagine that Berlage drew them. Isn’t... Designers: Hendricus Petrus Berlage |
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Studies of houses on the Keizersgracht and Herengracht After his sojourn in Belgium and Paris, Leliman looked at Amsterdam’s ring of canals through... Designers: J.H. Leliman |
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What is a Dutch architect doing in Africa? Herman Haan had travelled across this continent... Designers: Herman Haan |
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Travel sketch, detail of the Houses of Parliament This wispy blue sketch by Pierre Cuypers represents a way of life. Cuypers travelled a... Designers: P.J.H. Cuypers |
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Travel Sketches of the Prix de Rome Trip In the late 1930s, architect Arthur Staal (1907-1993) made two trips: one to the Mediterranean... Designers: Arthur Staal |
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Urban Design Master Plan for Euralille In the early 1990s, there are plans for transforming the town of Lille, in Northern... Designers: Office for Metropolitan Architecture |
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‘Continuité’ competition design In the 1920s, Paris was the nerve centre of the European avant-garde. Van Eesteren worked... Designers: Cornelis van Eesteren |
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Exploring other worlds
Architects have always travelled. The traditional ‘Grand Tour’ is a famous example. Newly graduated or during their final years of study, young architects leave hearth and home for a few months. The destination is invariably a land from classical antiquity, Italy or Greece, the cradle of our culture. More exotic destinations are gradually becoming more popular. These foreign impressions are formative for one’s entire life. They lead to novel insights, to an enrichment of one’s own architectural culture, or even to a new architecture. And it does not stop at travelling alone. Dutch architects design buildings and even entire cities in foreign countries, and they participate enthusiastically in international discussion platforms. Meanwhile, more and more buildings in the Netherlands are being designed by foreign architects. Can we still talk of international exchange if architecture itself is becoming globalised?
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The board of De Nederlandsche Bank in Amsterdam decided in 1948 that a new bank...
