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21 sty 2019 · Dutch Architect Aldo van Eyck built the Amsterdam Orphanage in 1960. His design focused on a balance of forces to create both a home and small city on the outskirts of Amsterdam.
Aldo van Eyck (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑldoː vɑn ˈɛik]; 16 March 1918 – 14 January 1999 [1]) was a Dutch architect. He was one of the most influential protagonists of the architectural movement Structuralism.
1 dzień temu · The creation of Tripolis, a trio of idiosyncratic office buildings of 11,000, 8,000, and 6,000 square meters, was inextricably linked to Van Eyck's masterpiece, the Amsterdam Orphanage. Completed ...
17 gru 2012 · Many of Van Eyck’s most exciting projects stem from his younger years, from the playgrounds in the 1940s, to his two other masterpieces from the mid-1960s: a pavilion for a 1966 sculpture exhibition in Arnhem (recently reconstructed in the gardens of the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo), and a church that is both spatially and liturgically ...
21 sty 1999 · In the Hubertus House, Amsterdam (finished 1978), a home for children and parents in need of help, van Eyck achieved an anarchic yet considered intervention in an old context. In 1983 he went into partnership with Hannie, his wife. Their major project was the estec complex at Nordwijk (finished 1989).
As a member of CIAM (International Congress of Modern Architecture) and later founding member of Team 10, van Eyck held strong views on postwar architecture. The Amsterdam Orphanage was the architect’s opportunity to put his views into practice through his first large-scale large-scale project.
Dutch Architect Aldo van Eyck built the Amsterdam Orphanage in 1960. His design focused on a balance of forces to create both a home and small city on the outskirts of Amsterdam. As a member of CIAM and then a founding member of Team 10, van Eyck held strong opinions on post-war architecture.
