Aldo van Eyck
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Aldo van Eyck
(b Driebergen, 16 March 1918). Dutch architect, writer and teacher. He attended Dutch and English schools and received his architectural training at the Eidgen?ssische Technische Hochschule in Zurich (1939-43). He worked as an architect in the Publieke Werken, Amsterdam (1946-51), and then established his own office in 1951. Van Eyck was a talented Functionalist of the younger generation and the Dutch delegate to CIAM from 1947, but one of his early concerns was for a freer imagination in architecture in place of the rigid Functionalism of CIAM. Like the Cobra group, he found a source of inspiration in the imagination of children, expressed in the 730 playgrounds he designed in Amsterdam between 1947 and 1974, and in traditional cultures, particularly in Africa. These experiences, and contact with a new generation of modern architects in the Netherlands including Jacob Bakema and Herman Hertzberger, led him to play an important role in TEAM TEN, the group that emerged from CIAM in 1956 to promote the importance of individual architectural and social identity, scale and meaning in place of the mechanical and generalized ideology of CIAM's Charte d'Ath?nes (1933).
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Aldo van Eyck
Aldo van Eyck or van Eijk (16 March 1918, Driebergen, Utrecht, Netherlands - 14 January 1999,[1] Loenen aan de Vecht) was an architect from the Netherlands.
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Family
He was a son of poet, critic, essayist and philosopher Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck or van Eijk and wife Nelly Estelle Benjamins, a woman of Jewish and Latin origin born and raised in Suriname.[2][3][4]
His brother is poet, artist and art restorer Robert Floris van Eyck or van Eijk.
Early life and career
His family moved to Great Britain in 1919 and he was educated at Sidcot School, Somerset 1932–1935 in England during his youth, after which he finished his secondary school in The Hague between 1935 and 1938, and went to study at the ETH Zurich, graduating in 1942, after which he remained in Switzerland until the end of World War II, where he entered the circle of many other avant-garde artists around Carola Giedion-Welcker, wife of historian Sigfried Giedion.
He taught at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture from 1954 to 1959 and he was a professor at the Delft University of Technology from 1966 to 1984. He also was editor of the architecture magazine Forum from 1959 to 1963 and in 1967. Aldo van Eyck was one of the most influential protagonists of the movement Structuralism.
A member of CIAM and then in 1954 a co-founder of "Team 10", Van Eyck lectured throughout Europe and northern America propounding the need to reject Functionalism and attacking the lack of originality in most post-war Modernism. Van Eyck's position as co-editor of the Dutch magazine Forum helped publicise the "Team 10" call for a return to humanism within architectural design.
Van Eyck received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1990.
Selected works
- Design for village of Nagele, Noordoostpolder, 1948–1954
- Housing for the Elderly, Slotermeer, Amsterdam, 1951–1952
- Amsterdam Orphanage, Amsterdam, 1955–1960
- Primary Schools, Nagele, Noordoostpolder, 19??-19??
- Hubertus House, Amsterdam, 1973–1978
- ESA-ESTEC restaurant and conference centre, Noordwijk, 1984–1990
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References
- ^ "Aldo van Eyck". Team 10 On line. http://www.team10online.org/team10/eyck/index.html. Retrieved 9 septembre 2012.
- ^ http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn1/eijk (in Dutch)
- ^ Marlene A. Eilers, Queen Victoria's Descendants (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987), page 167
- ^ http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Fallece/Aldo/van/Eyck/arquitecto/clave/estructuralismo/holandes/elpepicul/19990116elpepicul_6/Tes/ (in Spanish)
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