A Hundred years of Dutch Architecture reconstructs the frames of reference that informed the practice of architecture in the Netherlands during the last century. The book provides a detailed documentation of twenty key architectural works, based on the original plans. Each of these works embodies a specific response to an architectural problem and represents a crystallization point of one of the various approaches that can be distinguished within the gamut of design strategies, namely a traditionalist, an expressionist, a functionalist, a rrationalist and a post-modernist approach.

These five approaches to architecture are reconstructed by analysing the interconnection between a building's form, construction and function. Their architectural and social significance is examained in five separete essays that precede the documentation.

Umberto S. Barbieri; Leen van Duin.(ed.)  A Hundred years of Dutch Architecture 1901 - 2000, Trends Highlights. (Amsterdam:NAI publishers, in cooperation with SUN publishers, Rotterdam 2003) ISBN: 9789058750730 / 9789058750730