Hans Ibelings

Unmodern Architecture
Contemporary Traditionalism in the Netherlands
Fascinations 15

Design: Joseph Plateau, Illustrated (b/w), Paperback, sewn, 144 pages, Size: 12 x 20 cm
Text in English, ISBN 90-5662-352-4, € 21.00
Dutch edition, ISBN 90-5662-351-6

In the Netherlands, for decades a bastion of modernism, neomodernism and supermodernism, a contemporary traditionalism has been causing a stir since the 1990s. Instead of innovation, today's traditionalists tap into what is already there, drawing from the past and preferring means that have already proved their worth. In Hans Ibelings's book contemporary traditionalism, stripped of all populistic and moralistic arguments for and against, is analysed from different angles. Ibelings places contemporary traditionalism in an international and historical perspective. In so doing, the book answers the question of what contemporary traditionalism has to offer a 21st-century society.