Amsterdam 1850-1940

This app shows the development of Amsterdam between 1850 and 1940 based on thousands of buildings. More than 15,000 images show the work of well-known architects such as Cuypers, Berlage and De Klerk, but also of lesser gods such as the many nineteenth-century contractors. -architects. Cultural history is amply covered: in the descriptions of the buildings and in themes, including social housing, harbour, bathhouses, trams, cinemas, churches and schools.

All major architectural movements will pass by: from neo-styles via art nouveau, rationalism and the Amsterdam School to the Nieuwe Bouwen.

* 4000 structures
* 1500 images
* timeline
* 80 themes
* 200 biographies
* extensive search function
* interactive maps
* bookmarks

The second Golden Age, as the period around the turn of the century of 1900 is called. It was the time when a new era dawned for the city, after the stagnation of the eighteenth century and the economic disaster of the French era. Innovations such as trams, telephony, railways and electricity made economies of scale and specialization possible.

The city expanded considerably: first with the nineteenth-century belt around the overcrowded old city centre, and further in the twentieth century with new neighborhoods in South, West and North.

Most of the buildings from that time are still there today. They are the silent witnesses of the dawn of modern times.