The Legacy of CIAM in the Netherlands: Continuity and Innovation in Dutch Housing Design

This article discusses how CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne) influenced Dutch housing and urban planning. It starts by looking at programs and policies of the 1920s and 1930s Dutch housing design, and the way in which the new ideas of CIAM were there incorporated. In this history, the design of the AUP (Algemeen...

De transformatie van het Hollandse bouwblok in relatie tot het publieke domein: Model, regel en ideaal, The transformation of the Dutch urban block: model, rule and ideal

The research focuses on the transformation of the urban block in relation to the public realm of the two great Dutch cities Amsterdam and Rotterdam throughout the last 400 years. In order to analyse the process of transformation, Dutch urban blocks are selected that can be considered paradigmatic for different historical periods . The time span...