BERLAGE, HENDRIK Dutch architect, received his technical training at Amsterdam and Zurich and eventually settled at The Hague. As his career progressed he broke away from the Renaissance and Gothic styles which he had originally followed and finally succeeded in expressing the conception of beauty prevailing in his own time. Under the influence of these new ideas architecture in Holland reached an important stage of development. The chief characteristics of Berlage's style are simplicity of form, severity of line and a preference for brick as a material. In later years he was actively concerned with urban extension, and in this connection became architectural adviser to the cities of Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam.