Styles Catalog

All pre-1940 styles are considered historic styles, from Gothic to Art Nouveau.

The 1920s was the era of expressionism.

Modernism in architecture flourished between 1945 and 1970.

In the 1960s, the Netherlands wanted to end the enormous housing shortage at all costs.

By the 1970s, many architects had had enough of mass housing built according to modernist principles that were perceived as impersonal and bleak.

Economic malaise and a growing aversion to squishiness among architects meant the end of expensive, small-scale architecture in the late 1970s.

In the second half of the 1980s, young Dutch architects regained interest in the aesthetics of modernism.

Postmodernism is an umbrella term for very different styles in post-1980 architecture.

All buildings that are not residential and cannot be subdivided into another style.

In all postwar eras, non-style housing was created.