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  2. Cornelis van Eesteren - Wikipedia

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    Cornelis van Eesteren (4 July 1897 – 21 February 1988) was a prominent Dutch architect and urban planner who was born in Alblasserdam and died in Amsterdam. He worked for the Town Planning department of Amsterdam (1929–1959) and was the chairman of the CIAM (1930–1947). [1] He contributed to the De Stijl movement, with its founder Theo ...

  3. Athens Charter - Wikipedia

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    The concept of the Functional City came to dominate CIAM thinking after the conference in Brussels. At a meeting in Zürich in 1931, CIAM members Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Siegfried Giedion, Rudolf Steiger and Werner M. Moser discussed with Cornelis van Eesteren the importance of solar orientation in governing the directional positioning of low-cost housing on a given site.

  4. Sloterpark - Wikipedia

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    It is the heart of the Westelijke Tuinsteden ("Western Garden Cities"), built between 1958 and 1974 as part of the implementation of the General Enlargement Plan of 1935 (Algemeen Uitbreidingsplan). it is based on the organizational logic desired by Cornelis van Eesteren for his garden cities, built around four axes: housing, employment, leisure and transport.

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    The documentary doesn't specify when Vereen and Minnelli, 78, were an item, but it was likely during the mid '70s, between his marriages to Andrea Townsley and Nancy Bruner, and Minnelli's ...

  6. What has happened since four deaths in a small town? - AOL

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    Exactly one year ago, a small town was left shocked after a neighbourhood became a crime scene. Police arrived at a house in Costessey on the outskirts of Norwich to find the bodies of four people ...

  7. Jakoba Mulder - Wikipedia

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    Mulder's first big assignment was the design of Amsterdamse Bos, a 200-acre space in the city that was three times the size of New York’s Central Park.From 1935 until its completion in 1970, Jakoba Mulder was head of the team of various experts in soil science, water management, flora and fauna, and also in sports, nature education and public health.

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  9. Constructivist International - Wikipedia

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    The concept of the Constructivist International was first proposed at the International Congress of Progressive Artists, held in Düsseldorf, 29-31 May 1922. [1] A few days prior to the Congress, the key actors involved in launching the KI, met together in Weimar: Theo van Doesburg, El Lissitzky, Hans Richter, Werner Graeff, Karl Peter Röhl and Cornelis van Eesteren.