Super'Dutch': An Independent Result of Globalization or the Product of the Organic Evolution of Dutch Traditional Architecture?: How is the emergence of the SuperDutch movement at the end of the 20th century related to the evolution of Dutch traditional architecture between the 16th and 20th century?

SuperDutch is a movement defined in the 1980’s in the Netherlands as the means through which the country was placed back into internatioal discourses, being marked by architectural innovations and the rediscovery of Dutch national identity. At first sight, the buildings of this period appear to be formed upon the foundation of globalization and...

Mafia Baroque: In search of identity

In the paper, the architectural style Mafia Baroque (or Mutro Baroque) and its connection to national identity will be the topic of historical research. As the movement was first seen at the beginning of the 1990s, it is strongly influenced by the change of political systems in Bulgaria. In search of representation medium, the arising “new elite...

Creating Home, an inquiry into migration and identity: History of migrant housing in the Netherlands (Guest worker influx to the European refugee crisis) and the incorporation of cultural identities in housing and integration policies

The migration of different ethnic groups into an urban ecosystem over generations can lend to diversity and religious plurality. As people migrate from their homeland, they bring with them their culture and mould their surroundings into something that emulates ‘home’. These migrant populations try to fit into their new environment, and the host...

From Streets-in-the-Sky to a Castle in the Air: Development and Decline of a Concept (1952-1980s)

After World War II, various architectural theories were proposed for urban development in order to tackle the societal issues and housing issues arising from the post-war trauma. ‘Streets-in-the-sky’, proposed by the English architects Alison and Peter Smithson in 1952, was one of the concepts that emerged in the post-war era and advocated the...

Scheveningen: from a fishing village to the seaside resort

This history thesis aims to answer the question of how the development of modern tourism has affected the identity of Scheveningen at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The study is based on the analysis of predefined components of the identity of a place, based on research in the field of sociology, modern tourism and identity, as well as...

Il Grande Cretto di Burri, a question of meaning and identity: A focus on Gibellina’s earthquake, reconstruction and re-semantization

The catastrophic effects of seismic events that, in the last decade, hit Italian cities and landscapes have shown the urgency and topicality of a historically recurring issue. The traumatic events affected various communities and stemmed different political and social responses. The same etymology of the word "catastrophe", from the Greek...

Growing the Dutch mountains: From an economic concentration, towards a strong & diverse economic region

Performing extremely well on the Randstad scale, the polycentric model is lacking functional links and complementarity on the AMA scale. In the following pages, we will explain the conclusions that we have drawn from our detailed analysis, reveal the aspects of the AMA that we identified as key issues and explain our method to tackle these...