Michael Murray and Brendan Murtagh
Ashgate
Hardback
184
2004
"The first monograph in English on Dutch architectural theory and the public debate on architecture in nineteenth-century Amsterdam, this elegantly written 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, Dutch architects, patrons and builders fought to consolidate their city's history and cultural identity through architecture. He shows that rival factions advocated Gothic, Classical and Dutch Renaissance styles in an attempt to sequester the mystique of the Dutch Golder Age, and how, in the end, architectural theory became irrelevant."
Ashgate
Hardback
184
2004
"The first monograph in English on Dutch architectural theory and the public debate on architecture in nineteenth-century Amsterdam, this elegantly written 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, Dutch architects, patrons and builders fought to consolidate their city's history and cultural identity through architecture. He shows that rival factions advocated Gothic, Classical and Dutch Renaissance styles in an attempt to sequester the mystique of the Dutch Golder Age, and how, in the end, architectural theory became irrelevant."