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Alexander Polder housing development How far can you go as a designer? What are the limitations to increases in... Designers: Jacob Berend Bakema and Johannes Hendrik van den Broek |
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Gerrit Rietveld made efforts to have this idea implemented for almost his entire working life:... Designers: Gerrit Rietveld |
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There lies the new world: spick and span and cheerful. From the air, the rational... Designers: Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud |
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With his design for De Peperklip (in the form of an opened-out paperclip), Carel Weeber... Client: Gemeentelijk Woningbedrijf Rotterdam Designers: Carlos José Maria Weeber |
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Drienerlo student accommodation For the student housing on the campus in Drienerlo, architect Jan Verhoeven devised a clever... Designers: Jan Verhoeven |
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Things could not be permitted to become overly minimal. Prior to the Second World War,... Designers: J.P. Kloos |
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First municipal housing estate Willem Dudok created housing for workers that was more than decent. The garden-city district in... Client: Gemeente Hilversum Designers: Willem Marinus Dudok |
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Homes as an urban roof (Kasbah housing complex) A wonderful chaos, vitality and a whole range of opportunities to bump into someone for... Designers: Piet Blom |
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Residents, squatters and other pressure groups protested fiercely against the rigorous reconstruction plans for the... Designers: Theo Bosch |
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‘Palaces for the workers’ is how these homes were known. The residential blocks by De... Designers: Michel de Klerk |
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This architectural model is literally a box of building bricks. You construct a street frontage... Client: Gemeente Den Haag Designers: Jo Coenen |
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Westerdok Strip / Bicker’s Island housing For the Bicker’s Island slum clearance area, the young architects Paul de Ley and Jouke... Designers: Paul de Ley |
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Cooperation is a virtue
Everyone feels unique, yet is part of a community. Pure individuality is almost non-existent. Since our births we have been influenced by society, which moulds us and teaches us how to live together. Most especially, collective housing development creates cohesion and makes life within a community visible. Dutch residential districts are carefully composed spaces, in which the component parts and the whole form a unified entity. The social housing of the Netherlands is famous far beyond the country’s borders, but is it still as forceful and as communal as a century ago?
There lies the new world: spick and span and cheerful. From the air, the rational...