Central theme of this book: significance Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier (1887-1965) for Dutch architecture. Komter worked at Le Corbusier's office in Paris during the year 1930 in Paris and collaborated on Cite de Refuge, Centrosoyous and Pavillon Suisse. During his internship in Paris, Auke Komter created a design for a tall apartment building, which was entirely on pilotis, had a ramp to the basement and featured strip windows and a roof terrace. Also described is his 1933 design for the single and double villa at Aerdenhout. This is characterized by prismatic forms with partly floating building volumes and the roof terraces with brises-soleils.| The book was published as a catalog to accompany the exhibition Le Corbusier and the Netherlands from 1985/09/23 to 1986/01/12 at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem. A week after Le Corbusier's visit to the Netherlands, a group of 10 Amsterdam architects organized themselves into the architecture association Groep'32. A. Staal was one of the members most vocal (p.44). He made a competition design in 1932 for an architect's house with studio in typical Corbusian cube form; in 1934 he made a design for a country house on the Kaag. In 1935, A. Staal was awarded the Prix de Rome for an association building for artists. The conflict within "the 8" is mentioned in the book. Furthermore, Staal's fashion warehouse in Den Helder is mentioned; Articles about Staal are mentioned on pp.43-48; 51; 103.