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The multicultural society makes the Netherlands interesting for foreign architects. The New York-based architecture bureau... Designers: Asymptote |
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Correspondence, speech and manifesto for the Team 10 conference In 1959 the Netherlands was the stage of world history, when a small group of... Designers: Team 10 |
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The Office for Metropolitan Architecture founded by Rem Koolhaas is active all across the globe.... Designers: Office for Metropolitan Architecture |
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Sketchbook of the Grand Tour through Italy When leafing through these sketches, it is difficult to imagine that Berlage drew them. Isn’t... Designers: Hendricus Peter Berlage |
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Studies of houses on the Keizersgracht and Herengracht After his sojourn in Belgium and Paris, Leliman looked at Amsterdam’s ring of canals through... Designers: JH Leliman |
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What is a Dutch architect doing in Africa? Herman Haan had travelled across this continent... Designers: Herman Haan |
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Travel sketch, detail of the Houses of Parliament This wispy blue sketch by Pierre Cuypers represents a way of life. Cuypers travelled a... Designers: P.J.H. Cuypers |
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Travel sketches of his Prix de Rome journey Dutch architects have for centuries been going to Rome and Paris to study the highlights... Designers: Arthur Staal |
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‘Continuité’ competition design In the 1920s, Paris was the nerve centre of the European avant-garde. Van Eesteren worked... Designers: Cornelis van Eesteren |
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Exploring other worlds
Architects have always travelled. The traditional ‘Grand Tour’ is a famous example. Newly graduated or during their final years of study, young architects leave hearth and home for a few months. The destination is invariably a land from classical antiquity, Italy or Greece, the cradle of our culture. More exotic destinations are gradually becoming more popular. These foreign impressions are formative for one’s entire life. They lead to novel insights, to an enrichment of one’s own architectural culture, or even to a new architecture. And it does not stop at travelling alone. Dutch architects design buildings and even entire cities in foreign countries, and they participate enthusiastically in international discussion platforms. Meanwhile, more and more buildings in the Netherlands are being designed by foreign architects. Can we still talk of international exchange if architecture itself is becoming globalised?
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There lies the new world: spick and span and cheerful. From the air, the rational...
