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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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The beer magnate Freddy Heineken came up with this idea during a journey around the... Designers: N.J. Habraken |
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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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‘Our buildings are born naked and must then be dressed,’ state Neutelings and Riedijk. Contrary... Client: Gemeente Brugge Designers: Jo Coenen, Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk |
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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 principles for the Nieuwmarkt neighbourhood The 1970s were the years of ‘building for the neighbourhood’, of democratisation, public consultation and... Client: Gemeente Amsterdam Designers: Theo Bosch, Aldo van Eyck and Paul de Ley |
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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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House and interiors at the Weissenhofsiedlung In the 1920s, numerous providers of social housing visited the Weissenhofsiedlung, a model residential district... Client: Gemeente Stuttgart en Deutsche Werkbund Designers: Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud |
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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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Interiors and exteriors by Zocher After centuries dominated by classicism, Zocher experimented with a new style: the Gothic Revival. This... Designers: Jan David Zocher |
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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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Van stoel tot stad (From chair to city) manuscript Van stoel tot stad (From chair to city) is a passionate appeal to reconcile rapid... Designers: Jacob Berend Bakema |
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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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There lies the new world: spick and span and cheerful. From the air, the rational...
