Planning History of a Dutch New Town: Analysing Lelystad through Its Residential Neighbourhoods

This article seeks to analyse the reciprocal influence between the post-war urban planning policies and the development of residential neighbourhoods in Lelystad between 1965 and 1990. This city has been designed ‘from scratch’ as the urban centre of the IJsselmeer Polders, the largest land reclamation project of the Netherlands. Lelystad’s...

Revitalisation of the gallery apartment building

Thirty-one percent of all the energy used in the Netherlands is used by households. Considering the fact that it is technically easily possible to built energy neutral dwellings this quite big percentage. But with the speed we are currently constructing houses, we will build less than 10 percent of the currently existing building stock in the...

Ruimte + Ritme = IJsselmeer

Het IJsselmeer bestaat uit ongeveer 200 kilometer aan kust met een zeer uitgesproken kwaliteit: openheid. De vele ruimte en de ligging aan het water zijn een aantrekkelijke locatie voor allerlei soorten projecten. Deze hebben door de eeuwen heen overal in het gebied een plekje proberen te vinden. Het resultaat is een opeenstapeling van allerlei...

Cultivated landscapes as new cathedrals

Cornelis van Eesteren plays an instrumental role in the history of urbanism education in the Netherlands. He is regarded as a modernist, as a counterpart to the more traditional M.J. Granpré Molière. His expansion plans for Amsterdam earned him a reputation even before World War II, but as well as focusing on the IJsselmeer polders, his post-war...

Van Lohuizen and Van Eesteren: Partners in Planning and Education at TH Delft

This small booklet contains the inaugural speeches of Th. K. van Lohuizen and Cor van Eesteren on their appointments as professors at the Technical College of Delft. The texts provide novel insights into their respective teaching programs, and appear here for the first time in English. An analytical reflection on their work by the architectural...

Slotermeer: Laat je het hof maken!

This graduationproject deals with an early post-war neighbourhood of Slotermeer, in Amsterdam Nieuw-West. The major problem in these neighbourhoods is a lack of social security which causes poor liveability. This lead to a study investigating which architectural and urban tools can influence social security and how these tools can be used to...

Unknown history: Le Corbusier in front of the 'Academism' of Jan de Ranitz in the preparations for the new United Nations Headquarters at New York (1946)