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OASE 67 After the Party

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Dutch architecture of the 1990s is regarded worldwide as a success. The favourable economic and political conditions from the start of the 1990s (the 'boom' years) created an advantageous climate for unorthodox design approaches and experiments, which became the trademark of a modern form of cultural export. Since then, Dutch architecture has been known as pragmatic, self-assured and uncompromisingly modern.
Four years of economic decline and market-driven politics have brought an end to the post-ideological party of the 1990s. It was replaced by the risk-avoiding behaviour of government bodies and principals. The architecture climate is now characterized by an elusive sombreness and a responsible realism.
After the Party aims to make up the balance. The collapse of the optimistic consensus of the 'polder model' has revealed contradictions between interest groups, ideas and mentalities, and has made confrontations inevitable. But the sky has cleared, and there is new space to think about architecture, public concerns and the culture of the Netherlands and Europe. This edition of OASE spurs on this debate.
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authors / editors

Christoph Grafe, Madeleine Maaskant, Mechthild Stuhlmacher

with support from

the Netherlands Architecture Fund, Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation, the Geertruida Gerharda Bolhuis Foundation, the Van Eesteren-Fluck & Van Lohuizen Foundation

design

Karel Martens (Werkplaats Typografie)

ISBN

978-90-5662-429-3

publication date

September 2005

availability

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language

Dutch, English

pages

140 p

cover

paperback

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