7 articles in this issue
Marie-Thérèse van Thoor
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Freek H. Schmidt
This article deals with the challenges for the architectural historian as formulated by the architectural-historical domain during the past three decades. In 1977 an international symposium took place at Utrecht University in which overtures were made to ... see more
Ronald Stenvert
Although a considerable percentage of the practising building historians have an academic background, the origin of building history lies in the practical preservation of monuments and historic buildings. The listing of thousands of houses around 1975 gav... see more
Roland Blijdenstijn
In the seventies of the twentieth century architectural history was still chiefly an elitist academic study with much attention for Palladio and Alberti. Current events penetrated only slowly and little attention was paid to ideological questions. Ordinar... see more
Wim Denslagen
According to Seung The Charter of Venice (1964) was presented as a universal declaration in the field of protection of monuments and historic buildings, but in reality it was steeped in a European spirit. Consequently, this charter does not do justice to ... see more
Lex Bosman
The diversity of religious denominations in the Dutch Republic also had consequences for institutions like orphanages in the seventeenth century. In Amsterdam the various religious denominations also interfered with the care of orphans whose parents had b... see more
Arjen Oosterman
The relation between architectural history and heritage is ambiguous. Both domains are confronted with rapid changes in scale and complexity, leaving practitioners in both fields with the challenging task to provide new methods and a new vocabulary to ena... see more