Donald I. Grinberg

Housing in The Netherlands 1900¿1940

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Produktbeschreibung

Donald Grinberg has made a study which brings to light some aspects of Dutch housing which till now have been neglected in most analyses in books and maga zines. Grinberg is a USA citizen and studied architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. With the help of a Sheldon Fellowship and a grant from the Dutch Minis terie van Volkshuisvesting en Ruimtelijke Ordening he was able to do the research for this book in The Netherlands for a year. Grinberg is working together with his wife, who is Dutch - one of the reasons he can read and speak Dutch. His specific situation as an American who can read publications in the Dutch language gave him a unique opportunity for access to original source material and recent studies. Until now, most publications about Dutch architecture in the period 1900-1940 included housing projects mostly because they were part of 'het Nieuwe Bouh2n'. This is the Dutch expression for the modern architecture resulting from action groups such as De Stijl,who introduced new space-time awareness as a basis for the expression of architecture. Oud, Mondriaan, Rietveld, and Van Doesburg of De Stijl were followed by the groups de 8 from Amsterdam and Opbouw from Rotter dam. Members of these groups called themselves anti-aesthetic functionalists - Stam, Merkelbach, Van Tijen, Van Loghem, Duiker, Van der Vlugt, Van den Broek, and others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-94-011-6461-0
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 210mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9789401164610
• ISBN-10: 9401164614
• Artikelnr.: 39512388

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- 2. The pre-industrial period.- Spatial openness.- The town/country dichotomy.- The street and the dwelling.- The hofje.- 3. Industrialization and urbanization.- 4. Housing production before 1900.- Industrial housing.- Speculative housing.- Housing associations.- Agneta Park.- 5. Dwelling conditions before 1900.- Rural poverty.- The typical row house.- Hand-me-down housing.- Back-to-back dwellings.- The closed block: double exposure flats.- Cupboard beds and alcoves.- 6. The housing act of 1902.- Municipal regulation before the Act.- National reform precedents.- The Act: building regulations.- The Act: agents of productions.- The Act: city planning.- The context for progress.- 7. The influence of Camillo Sitte.- H.P. Berlage.- J.J.P. Oud.- 8. New role for the architect.- Socialism.- Artist, ego, and universalism.- The dwelling as cultural symbol.- Expressionism and the Amsterdam School.- The Nieuwe Zakelijkheid.- 9. The garden city tradition.- of the tuinstad idea.- Romanticism.- Paternalism.- Utopia and self-sufficiency.- H.P. Berlage.- Polarization and critique.- Influence.- Preliminary tendencies to spatial openness.- 10. Collectivity and communal space.- The influence of hygiene.- The hofje tradition.- Communal garden prototype.- Front and back: Tuinwijk Zuid, Haarlem.- In and out: Spangen, Rotterdam.- J.J.P. Oud.- Symbolism of collectivity.- 11. Standardization.- Crisis.- Berlage and 'Normalisatie'.- Concrete village: Watergraafsmeer, Amsterdam.- J.J.P. Oud and De Stijl.- The problem of the prototype.- 12. Ideology: ends and means.- De 8.- Union with Opbouw.- 13. The new conception of space.- Orientation and light.- Universal space.- Flexibility.- 14. Spatial openness: high-rise.- The image of America.- Romantic socialism.- Propagation of theimage.- Aesthetic applications.- Rationalization.- Rejection: Commissie voor den Hoogen Bouw.- The Bergpolder Flats, Rotterdam.- The 1934 Competition for Inexpensive Workers' Dwellings.- Final rejection before the war.- 15. Conclusion.- Notes.- Bibliographical note.