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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 ...
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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.
It was nevertheless very influential, also, and especially after WWII, in both architecture and town planning, through the work of, among other, Lotte Stam-Beese and Cornelis van Eesteren. Their work also informed planning theory and practice abroad.
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.
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.
Participants in the International Congress of Progressive Artists (from left to right: unknown boy, Werner Graeff, Raoul Hausmann, Theo van Doesburg, Cornelis van Eesteren, Hans Richter, Nelly van Doesburg, unknown (De Pistoris?), El Lissitzky, Ruggero Vasari, Otto Freundlich (?), Hannah Höch, Franz Seiwert and Stanislav Kubicki).
In the mid-1920s, Van Doesburg worked together with Schwitters and the artist Kate Steinitz to produce a series of children's fairy-tale books that featured unusual typography, including Hahnepeter (Peter the Rooster, 1924), Die Märchen vom Paradies (The Fairy Tales of Paradise, 1924–25), and Die Scheuche (The Scarecrow, 1925). [11]