Holland
I visited Holland in 2011 to look at urban and rural landscapes and to identify similarities and differences with the Norfolk Broads. I was primarily interested in built structures and how their designs reflected their watery surroundings.
Relationships between water and land, the wild and the
man-made, are particularly evident in the wetlands of the Norfolk & Suffolk
Broads and the lowlands of northern Holland.
Sensitivity to the delicate nature of wetland terrain is reflected in
some vernacular architecture and ignored by other idiosyncratic structures that
illustrate real or imagined relationships with water, land and sky.
Some watery
scenes could be in either country but most images illustrate decisions which are
more or less culturally specific and relate to social and political attitudes
towards inhabitants, visitors and the wider environment.
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