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Het Shell-Gebouw Van J. J. P. Oud Ontwerp En Receptie = J. J. P. Oud's Shell Building Design and Reception by Dolf Broekhuizen, Ed Taverne (1996, Paperback) 
Het Shell-Gebouw Van J. J. P. Oud Ontwerp En Receptie = J. J. P. Oud's Shell Building Design and Reception by Dolf Broekhuizen, Ed Taverne (1996, Paperback)
Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc
Publication Date: 1996-09-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 9072469739
ISBN-13: 9789072469731
Product ID: EPID329239
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Publication Date:1996-09-01

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Length:168 pages
Height:11.3 in
Width:9.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:30.4 oz

Publisher's Note
"The construction of the Shell building was a seminal moment in the career of legendary architect J.J.P. Oud. After years of barely managing to release a design, this strikingly classical office building suddenly appeared in The Hague in 1942. The Shell's design ignored the conventions of Modernism as its symmetrical composition and reinforced ornament were seen as a return to the principles of traditional monumental architecture. Many of Oud's contemporaries were shocked and he was accused of abandoning his own avant-garde roots. This book documents Oud's design process through drawings, photographs, and written sources, and then explores the worldwide discourse that ensued in reaction to the building and its designer.

The Shell Building was an important moment in the career of J.J.P. Oud. After years in which he had barely managed to realize a design, suddenly in 1942 this strikingly classical office building appeared in The Hague - a design that seemed to ignore the conventions of modernism. The first part of the book provides a reconstruction of the design process of the Shell Building, using many drawings, photographs, and written sources. The second part describes the reception of the building in architectural publications from the Netherlands, England, Switzerland, and, in particular, the United States, and how Oud reacted to them. In so doing, the book not only offers a comprehensive outline of a main theme of the international postwar debate on architecture; it also makes an essential contribution to a renewed concept of Oud's development.

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