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#27 - Peter Drijver, Scala Architecten: the Birth of & Battle for New Traditional Architecture in the Netherlands & Modernist Power Games

The Aesthetic City

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The History of Traditional Architecture

From 1969 on, it was hardly possible to get a traditional training at the University of Delft. Modernist professors more or less kicked out the traditional professors that were hanging around since the 50s. So it's just something for the past, it's not something for the future. And I think you cannot just cope with your very individual ideas or feelings to give that form. Yeah. Building a house or building a street or building an area is something that you don't do for yourself.

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