Architecture and democracy

Architecture and democracy: Contestations in and of the open society

van den Heuvel, D. (TU Delft Form, Space & Type)

van den Heuvel, Dirk (editor)

2018

In many ways the work and ideas of Jaap Bakema epitomize the best of the architecture of the post-war Dutch welfare state: it is utterly unapologetic about its modernity as well as its drive to be universal and egalitarian. Bakema firmly
positioned his office and its production at the heart of the Dutch welfare state system. Not only did he, together with his office partner Jo van den Broek, succeed in developing a systemized approach towards housing and planning,
integrated design, construction, and advanced typological research, he also presented the construction of the Dutch welfare state as the opportunity par excellence to recast Dutch society as a forward-looking, humane, modern and
rationalist welfare state society within the new global reality of the Cold War.

modern architecture
architecture history
housing
urban planning
CIAM
Team 10
welfare state

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Archis, Amsterdam

2018-08-22

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Jaap Bakema and the Open Society

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