Projects

Studies of houses on the Keizersgracht and Herengracht

After his sojourn in Belgium and Paris, Leliman looked at Amsterdam’s ring of canals through...

Amsterdam, 1860 | Curious

Designers: J.H. Leliman

Studio Design for a Family Dwelling

For several years in the 1960s, painter Joost Baljeu and architect Dick van Woerkom collaborated...

1961 | Restrained

Designers: Joost Baljeu and Dick van Woerkom

Studio houses

These residential/work units at Zomerdijkstraat were the first complex of studio houses in the Netherlands....

Amsterdam, 1934 | Restrained

Designers: Piet Zanstra

Studio Residence Van Woerkom

Van Woerkom designs a studio and home for himself and his family; his studio residence...

1987 | Restrained

Designers: Dick van Woerkom

Study of a Cliff Face

What is a Dutch architect doing in Africa? Herman Haan had travelled across this continent...

Bandiagara, Mali, 1964 | Curious

Designers: Herman Haan

The Cityless City

The feverish, uncontrolled proliferation of contemporary cities motivates the conception of new design strategies to...

1927 | Makeable

Designers: Hendrik Wijdeveld

The ‘core’ house

Throughout almost his entire working life, Gerrit Rietveld attempted to put the idea of the...

1929 | Together

Designers: Gerrit Rietveld

Travel sketch, detail of the Houses of Parliament

This wispy blue sketch by Pierre Cuypers represents a way of life. Cuypers travelled a...

Londen, 1882 | Curious

Designers: P.J.H. Cuypers

Travel Sketches of the Prix de Rome Trip

In the late 1930s, architect Arthur Staal (1907-1993) made two trips: one to the Mediterranean...

1940 | Curious

Designers: Arthur Staal

Troelstra resort

The socialist J.C. Van Epen (1880-1960) enters his Troelstra resort scheme in a limited competition...

1925 | Together

Designers: Johannes Christiaan van Epen

University Hall Amsterdam

1923 | Open

Designers: Theo van Doesburg and Cornelis van Eesteren

Urban Design Master Plan for Euralille

In the early 1990s, there are plans for transforming the town of Lille, in Northern...

Lille, 1992 | Curious

Designers: Office for Metropolitan Architecture

Urban Design Plan to Revivify the Nieuwmarkt

In 1980, Amsterdam city council adopts the definitive design for the city’s Nieuwmarkt area; however,...

Amsterdam, 1980 | Experimental

Client: Gemeente Amsterdam

Designers: Theo Bosch, Aldo van Eyck and Paul de Ley

Urban Re-Identification

The ninth CIAM conference in Aix-en-Provence in 1953 was the first at which the so-called...

1953 | Together

Designers: Alison and Peter Smithson

Vaillantlaan

In the 1980s, when urban renewal threatens to turn part of the Schilderswijk into a...

Den Haag, 1993 | Together

Client: Gemeente Den Haag

Designers: Jo Coenen

Van Nelle factory

The Van Nelle factory was designed according to the principles of the Nieuwe Bouwen movement....

Rotterdam, 1930 | Experimental

Designers: Johannes Andreas Brinkman and Leendert Cornelis van der Vlugt

Van stoel tot stad (From chair to city) manuscript

Van stoel tot stad (From chair to city) is a passionate appeal to reconcile rapid...

1964 | Experimental

Designers: Jacob Berend Bakema

Villa Het Reigersnest

On 2 April 1920 during a modest ceremony, the final stone of villa Het Reigersnest...

Oostvoorne, 1918 | Restrained

Designers: Pieter Vorkink

VipCity / The Unadapted City

VipCity is part of a larger project in which Belgian architect and conceptual artist Luc...

2004 | Makeable

Designers: Luc Deleu

Westhove multi-storied house

"Westhove' (1922) is one of the multi-storied houses that F.A. Warners built in Amsterdam. In...

Amsterdam, 1922 | Together

Designers: Filip Anne Warners