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Piet Blom'S Rotterdam. New life at the Old Harbour | Jaap Hengeveld | 9789079369027

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Piet Blom's Rotterdam

New life at the Old Harbour

Author:Jaap Hengeveld

Publisher:Jaap Hengeveld

ISBN: 978-90-7936-902-7

  • Paperback
  • Dutch, English
  • 160 Pages

Piet Blom (1934-1999) grew up in the Amsterdam Jordaan quarter. Between 1956 and 1962 he studied architecture at the Amsterdam Architecture Academy. Blom found the dull mono functional architecture of the post-war housing estates highly unsympathetic. While he was still studying he made a number of designs that had a great influence on his later design career. Although the development around the Old Harbour forms the core of this book, 'Piet Blom's Rotterdam', Blom's student period and certain projects preceding the Rotterdam design are also examined.

In his preparatory and higher vocational education projects 'De steden zullen dorpsgewijs bewoond worden' [Cities will be inhabited like villages], 'De ark van Noach' [Noah's Ark] and his study 'Wonen als algemeen stedelijk dak' [Habitation as a universal urban roof], we become acquainted with an architect who had developed strong ideas about habitation and who continued to pleas for a mixing of uses. Together with certain designs from the 1960s and '70s, they form the basis of his greatest project: the Blaak Bridge and Spaanse Kade in Rotterdam. If you venture to look beyond the appearance of the daring design you will discover a vision of urbanisation and living that is still relevant today.

Piet Blom (1934-1999) grew up in the Amsterdam Jordaan quarter. Between 1956 and 1962 he studied architecture at the Amsterdam Architecture Academy. Blom found the dull mono functional architecture of the post-war housing estates highly unsympathetic. While he was still studying he made a number of designs that had a great influence on his later design career. Although the development around the Old Harbour forms the core of this book, 'Piet Blom's Rotterdam', Blom's student period and certain projects preceding the Rotterdam design are also examined.

In his preparatory and higher vocational education projects 'De steden zullen dorpsgewijs bewoond worden' [Cities will be inhabited like villages], 'De ark van Noach' [Noah's Ark] and his study 'Wonen als algemeen stedelijk dak' [Habitation as a universal urban roof], we become acquainted with an architect who had developed strong ideas about habitation and who continued to pleas for a mixing of uses. Together with certain designs from the 1960s and '70s, they form the basis of his greatest project: the Blaak Bridge and Spaanse Kade in Rotterdam. If you venture to look beyond the appearance of the daring design you will discover a vision of urbanisation and living that is still relevant today.

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