Dutch Architecture

"I am not an art historian but an architect: the future is more important to me than the past and I am more inclined to investigate what is to come than to research what has already occured." Thus begins Oud's "confession" in volume 10 of the Bauhausbucher series. His writing is a summary of theoretical and practical findings in the field of architecture, specifically using the example of Dutch architecture. He thus looks to the future and reflects on the potential of architecture without forgetting to reveal his relationship with the past. "What has happened teaches lessons for what is to come" – from these considerations Oud's examination of Dutch architecture, which is recorded in this volume, derives its ideas. AUTHOR: J. J. P. Oud was a Dutch architect, designer and author. Between 1917 and 1921 he was a member of the De Stijl art movement. Oud was appointed Rotterdam City Architect in 1918 and held this position until 1933. He participated in the Bauhaus Week and the International Architecture Exhibition in 1923. 39 illustrations

The pioneer of Dutch architectural modernism sets out his design vision In the 1910s, Dutch architect Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud (1890-1963) developed a new vision of modernist design with highly geometric construction through his government-commissioned housing blocks in Rotterdam. Though more closely associated with the concurrent De Stijl movement, Oud's forward-thinking approach to architecture also proved indispensable to the Bauhaus school of thought. "What has happened teaches lessons for what is to come," writes Oud in this examination of Dutch architecture, in which he summarizes theoretical and practical findings. Oud's main concerns were with the establishment of cost-effective construction methods in concert with an attention to utility and human psychology. As part of the publisher's ongoing Bauhausb

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