Stadhuis & Muziektheater Stopera: The influence of architects, politics and the public on the design of Amsterdam’s controversial city hall

Public participation in building projects in The Netherlands is something which really evolved after the Second World War. Architects had a utopian vision for the city of the future, but the general population didn’t find modernist designs attractive and became sceptic of modernist design. On top of that, the nation’s post-war values of anti...