Willem Goeree (1635-1711) and the development of a general theory of architecture in The Netherlands ; Willem Goeree (1635-1711) en de ontwikkeling van een algemene architectuurtheorie in de Nederlanden

In his ‘d'Algemene Bouwkunde’ (General Architecture) of 1681 Willem Goeree rightly concluded that in The Netherlands the most general aspects of architecture had hardly been studied, unlike the five orders of architecture. His treatise is in fact the first printed treatise on architecture in the Dutch language in which an attempt was made to find a connection between architecture of classical antiquity and contemporary architecture which surpassed the usual discussions of the columns or the presentation of designs by leading architects such as Post or Vingboons. Moreover, Goeree pointed out to... Mehr ...