Aldo van Eyck, 1918-1999: The Dutch-born architect and intellectual spent his life trying to achieve a 'new reality' away from theoretical orthodoxy

Article Abstract:

Aldo van Eyck was brought up in Golders Green, North London and attended the progressive King Alfred's School in Hampstead at the age of six. He spent three years at the Technical School in The Hague and went to the Technical High School in Zurich. He move to Amsterdam with his wife in 1946 where he worked at the Public Works Department, designing more than 60 playgrounds in the city. He joined the Dutch CIAM group which resulted in the co-founding of Team 10 with Bakema, Candilis, the smithsons and J Voelcker. He taught at Delft and became involved in the Amsterdam Nieuwmarkt project in 1970. He went into partnership with his wife in 1983 and the ESTEC complex was their major project.

Obituary, Architects, van Eyck, Aldo

---

Dutch courage

Article Abstract:

Modern, imaginative house design is acceptable in the Netherlands. The new town of Almere, 25km from Amsterdam, holds a biennial exhibition of houses for sale or rent. The NWR-Bouw Rai '92 has 36 groups of houses of several different types but all far more adventurous in design than any that would be built in a similar situation in Britain. Few houses are for the conventional two parent-two child family. Many have open plan features, modernistic or unusual feature, and defy normal expectations of internal and external privacy. Several verge on the kitsch but buyers are not deterred.

Netherlands, Housing

---

A sense of hard reality in an empty landscape: a series of original squares and gardens puts the Rotterdam practice West 8 at the forefront of Dutch landscape design

Article Abstract:

West 8 of the Netherlands is at the forefront of Dutch landscape design. The practice was involved in the Binnenrotte market square featuring a simplistic paving pattern, Z section high backed benches and a simple two storey bicyle enclosure. The Schouwburgplein theatre square in Rotterdam is a more ambitious project with the aim of increasing the intensity of its use.

Practice, Landscape architects

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: European unemployment and flexible employment practices. Social reform: some implications for HRM strategy. Research and development and market share
• Abstracts: Manufacturers to aim for quality. Taiwan expands regional investment. Taiwan comes of age
• Abstracts: Grape expectations: New Zealand's wine industry goes from strength to strength. Let there be cash: reforms spur growth of small companies
• Abstracts: The great Arcuk debate. Using a contract consultant. Sustaining consultation: Consultation on the design of Great Notley school highlighted the benefits and pitfalls of the process

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.