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The Amsterdam architect Arnold Ingwersen (1882-1959) left behind a substantial body of work, yet it is still largely undocumented and has left very few traces in Dutch architectural history. One reason for this was Ingwe...

Review of a book written by Hein van der Bruggen, Erik Caris and Luc Wolters (eds.)    

Book review of a book written by Hettie Peterse, Elsbeth Rooker, Rob Camps en Karel Emmens (eds.)

One of the unmistakable trends in current country house research is the growing interest in the landscape context of country houses. The unquestioned emphasis on the main house and the garden is increasingly giving way t...

Between 1774 and 1781, Eise Eisinga built an orrery in his house in Franeker. This instrument was and is commonly referred to as a planetarium, although it also gives information about the sun, the moon and the main cons...

The Province of Gelderland has long boasted a large number of country houses and landed estates, which over time coalesced into estate landscapes around the historical capitals of the Duchy of Guelders quarters of Nijmeg...

In the past, country house research was mainly concerned with individual houses and gardens. Yet, as early as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, so many country houses were being built around the major cities that...

Climate change and urbanization have substantial ramifications for the management and protection of cultural-historical landscapes. This is especially true for historical estate landscapes – landscapes whose character ...

Review of a book written by Martine van der Wielen-de Goede

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The multi-talented Johanna Eleanor Ferguson (1900-1982), born in Shanghai but trained at the Delft Institute of Technology, was one of the first female architects in the Netherlands. From her self-designed flat-roofed ho...

Review of a book written by Sjettie Bruins    

Review of a book written by Bas de Melker

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Book review of a book written by Jelle De Rock

In the period up to the end of the Second World War, 21 women in the Netherlands completed an academic architectural course. Five of these women married a fellow architect and conducted a joint architectural practice wit...

For many centuries, the landscape and cultural history of the Netherlands have been influenced by the rural estates of large landowners. Their country houses with gardens, parks and farmland formed an important combinati...

Book review of a book written by Rita Radetzky

From around 1866, Noordwijk aan Zee morphed from a small fishing village into a fashionable seaside resort. Although this transformation was set in train by a local hotelier, it was not fully realized until 1887, thanks ...

Review of a book written by Paul P.J Overvoorde

Fil: Sternberg, Gabriela. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Gabriela Sternberg es Diseñadora Gráfica egresada de la UBA . Actualmente trabaja de forma freelance como diseñadora y el resto del tiempo experimenta ...

¿Qué es una línea? ¿De qué color es? ¿Qué puede hacer un hombre con una línea? ¿Qué pueden hacer muchos hombres con una línea? Acaso, las respuestas que nos ofrenda el arte de Beatriz Doumerc y Ayax Barnes sea...