The conservation of modernist urban ensembles

The conservation of modernist urban ensembles: Case studies from Amsterdam

Clarke, Nicholas (TU Delft Teachers of Practice; University of Pretoria)

Hein, Carola (editor)

2016

Urban conservation, notably in Western Europe, grew from a reaction to the large Modernist monofunctional sub-urban expansion projects and programmes aimed at rationalising messy multifunctional historic cities. Conservationists responded reactively by celebrating the diversity and multi-layered character of the historic city. In the Netherlands a pragmatic urban conservation approach was developed which found its most clear expression in the Town- and City renewal programmes of the last quarter of the Twentieth Century. Concurrent to this a new dynamic was emerging: an awakening appreciation of Modernist ensembles, built according to the principles of the Modern Movement and the CIAM. The same pragmatic approach has helped to ensure the conservation of these expansive areas, albeit through somewhat radical means. This paper explores in brief the history of the urban conservation movement in the Netherlands, following which novel approaches to the conservation of Modernist utopian townscapes will be presented through recent and current projects from Amsterdam.

Urban conservation
The Netherlands
Modernist social housing ensembles
energy sustainability
Amsterdam
Landlust
Bosleeuw
Jeruzalem-Frankendaal
Slotermeer

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b297991c-3e21-45ce-bcdc-be20ee192b85

https://doi.org/10.7480/iphs.2016.5.1310

TU Delft OPEN Publishing

978-94-92516-06-0

History Urbanism Resilience: Historical Perspectives

17th IPHS Conference History-Urbanism-Resilience, 2016-07-17 → 2016-07-21, Delft, Netherlands

International Planning History Society Proceedings, 2468-6948, 17 (5)

Institutional Repository

conference paper

© 2016 Nicholas Clarke