Indepth Arts News: | "Conversation Pits and Cul-de-sacs: Dutch
Architecture in the 1970s" 2004-06-19 until 2004-10-03
Netherlands Architecture Institute Many Dutch people will still
recall the 'cul-de-sac', the 'conversation pit' or the
combination of orange, brown and purple. But buildings such as
the Centraal Beheer by Hertzberger, the Kasbah by Piet Blom and
urban planning projects by Ben Loerakker and Paul de Ley are
also typical of Dutch architecture of the 1970s. The NAI
exhibition 'Conversation Pits and Cul-de-Sacs' shows material
from the NAI's own collection which will be supplemented both
with loans from architects and with art works, films and
photographs from other collections. A typical 1970s living room
and a real sunken seating area will give an impression of how
the interiors of the period looked. The 1970s witnessed enormous
change. The decade began with flower power and ended with disco
and punk. The optimism of the revolutions of 1968 had given way
by 1980 to nihilism and slogans such as 'n