The architecture of the Dutch Welfare State: the TU Delft Aula ; La arquitectura del Estado del Bienestar en los Países Bajos: el aula de la Tu Delft (1948-1968)

During the Cold War, the confrontation between the western and eastern bloc for world supremacy went beyond the sphere of politics and encompassed areas such as culture or lifestyle. The two systems promised a future of progress and happiness to a society dazzled by science and technology. In Western Europe, the welfare society, once freed from the machinist aesthetic and functionalist inter-war determination, found in the international style the means of expressing its aspirations for equality and modernity. In this sense, brutalism became one of the official architectural languages of the we... Mehr ...