Hendrik Petrus Berlage is one of the most important figures in 'modern' Dutch architecture. His career spanned more than fifty years between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. Not only internationally recognized as the creator of various extraordinary buildings, he also ventured successfully into the field of urban planning creating historically significant developments in various cities. He formulated a body of theories which were to help inspire different movements in Dutch architecture such as the De Stijl and the Amsterdam School in the 1910s and 1920s and the Nieuwe Zakelijkheid of the 1930s.
This welcome new edition of Sergio Polano's study is the most comprehensive ever made about Berlage studing all aspects of his work both theoretical and constructed and contains a complete analytical list of his works, a catalogue raisonné of his writings and a bibliography including close to four hundred titles.