J.J.P. OUD, 1926
BOOK
Dutch Architecture is the tenth book in the Bauhausbücher series by J.J.P. Oud, the great Dutch architect who worked within the neoplastic movement along with Gerrit Rietveld, Piet Mondrian, and Theo Van Doesburg.
‘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 rather than to research what has already happened.‘ With these words, Oud begins his ‘confession’ in the tenth volume of the Bauhausbücher series.
His writings are a summary of theoretical and practical discoveries in the field of architecture, using the specific example of Dutch architecture.
In doing so, Oud looks to the future while reflecting 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 this perspective, Oud’s architectural principles and examination of Dutch architecture take shape, as documented in this volume.
THE Bauhausbücher SERIES
These are the 14 Bauhaus books in the series:
- Walter Gropius, International Architecture >
- Paul Klee, Pedagogical Sketchbook
- Adolf Meyer, A Bauhaus Experimental House >
- Oskar Schlemmer, The Theater of the Bauhaus
- Piet Mondrian, New Design – Neoplasticism, Nieuwe Beelding
- Theo van Doesburg, Principles of Neo-Plastic Art
- Walter Gropius, New Works from the Bauhaus Workshops >
- László Moholy-Nagy, Painting, Photography, Film
- Wassily Kandinsky, Point and Line to Plane
- Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud, Dutch Architecture >
- Kasimir Malevich, The Non-Objective World
- Walter Gropius, Bauhaus Buildings Dessau >
- Albert Gleizes, Cubism >
- László Moholy-Nagy, From Material to Architecture >
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DETAILS
Lars Müller Publishers
Hardcover, 85 pp
