Harvard Design Magazine: The Dutch 70s, by Wouter Vanstiphout
I was browsing the back issues of Harvard Design Magazine and found an article by Wouter Vanstisphout entitled “The Dutch 70s.” Though it’s about the legacy of 1970s design in The Netherlands, I found the introductory paragraph most interesting:
In Holland there are no architects, buildings, or even unrealized designs that have been unjustly neglected. In the last ten or fifteen years — before which only the golden age of the 17th century and the heroic period of modern architecture in the 1920s were of interest — almost everything has been colonized by historians: first the eclectic 19th century, then the neoclassic 18th century, then the styleless pragmatic 1930s, the protomodern teens, and most recently the ugly reconstruction architecture of the 1950s and 60s. . . Whole areas in Holland have been designated as “protected cityscape.” This does not mean that you can’t demolish important buildings — but they first must be documented, described, and categorized.
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