Robert-Jan Baken
Ashgate
Hardback
422
2003
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
422
2003
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.