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A new architecture has been made possible by computer-assisted design. It stimulates experimentation and results... Designers: Asymptote |
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It cannot be denied that Wijdeveld’s attitude was experimental. Especially in the latter years of... Designers: Hendrik Wijdeveld |
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Shortly after the First World War there was a serious shortage of cheap housing, skilled... Designers: K.J. Greiner |
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In 1965, Enrico and Luzia Hartsuyker launched Biopolis: a model for a new urban culture.... Designers: Enrico en Luzia Hartsuyker |
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In 1926, Hans Arp and Sophie Tauber commissioned Van Doesburg to decorate and furnish Aubette,... Designers: Theo van Doesburg |
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Competition design for the development of Rokin In 1924, Amsterdam municipal council organised a competition for the redevelopment of Rokin street, in... Designers: Cornelis van Eesteren |
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Counter-construction / Maison Particulière This study for a house is radically innovative and is still spectacular almost a century... Designers: Theo van Doesburg and Cornelis van Eesteren |
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Design variants for the Zigzag and Folding Chair The Zigzag Chair is an international design classic. Rietveld executed the initial models in cardboard... Designers: Gerrit Rietveld |
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Mathieu Lauweriks was an influential figure in the period between Jugendstil and the Bauhaus. He... Designers: J.L. Mathieu Lauweriks |
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Rotterdam’s general post office opened in 1923, reinforcing the position of Coolsingel road as the... Designers: Gustav Cornelis Bremer |
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Gispen company catalogue cover As a designer, W. H. Gispen greatly respected traditional beauty and craftsmanship, but he gradually... Designers: Willem Hendrik Gispen |
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This house is a design that Van Eesteren made for his parents in Alblasserdam. They... Designers: Cornelis van Eesteren |
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The detailing of the residential quarters that Michel de Klerk designed for Amsterdam around 1920... Designers: Michel de Klerk and Piet Kramer |
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Every fashion is succeeded by a subsequent trend. That is not only a commercial truth... Designers: Viervant |
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International Competition for Bruges Concert Hall In readiness for 'Bruges 2002, Cultural Capital of Europe’, Bruges city council holds a competition... Client: Gemeente Brugge Designers: Jo Coenen, Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk |
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Modern Homes: the Weissenhofsiedlung Around 1926, the Deutsche Werkbund invited Oud to design a number of model dwellings for... Client: Gemeente Stuttgart en Deutsche Werkbund Designers: Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud |
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This office building was realised according to a completely new concept: organic forms instead of... Designers: Ton Alberts and Max van Huut |
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Roof of Amsterdam Central Station Construction of the Central Station began in 1882. Until then, it was customary for stations... Designers: P.J.H. Cuypers |
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The Socialist J.C. Van Epen (1880-1960) wished to provide working people with improved living surroundings... Designers: Johannes Christiaan van Epen |
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Urban Design Plan to Revivify the Nieuwmarkt In 1980, Amsterdam city council adopts the definitive design for the city’s Nieuwmarkt area; however,... Client: Gemeente Amsterdam Designers: Theo Bosch, Aldo van Eyck and Paul de Ley |
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The pursuit of innovation
Without experiment, the built environment would be a boring, dead space. Innovation in architecture is often driven by a few convinced protagonists of an ideology or idea. The experimental passion of Dutch architects is internationally renowned: from the Functionalists who made the structure the starting point for their designs around 1920 to the conceptual design bureaus which attracted global interest in the 1990s. This vanguard makes a strong case for transforming their ideas into tangible designs. A great many tryouts are produced during that process, sometimes even buildings that are actually built. Society maintains its vitality by experimenting. But is our architecture still experimental? Should the discipline rely on innovation platforms or look to inspired individuals?
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The board of De Nederlandsche Bank in Amsterdam decided in 1948 that a new bank...
