Jan Duiker

by Jan Molema

Jan Duiker (1890-1935), an independent architect associated with the modern movement in Holland, had a great personal interest in social welfare, an issue which exercised his architectural talents in writings and schemes aimed at creating a better world.

This profusely illustrated and throughly documented book presents Duiker`s work in its entirety, from the first houses in The Hague (1918-1922), to one of his most complex and influential buildings, the Zonnestraal sanatorium in Hilversum (1926-1928), through to his last projects, such as the Cineac cinema (1933) and the Winter department stores (1934), both in Amsterdam, and the Gooiland hotel and theatre (1934-1936) in Hilversum.

200 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1992

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good series of small monographs. Rhyme or reason seems to be lacking amongst the selections (from Jacobsen through Rossi to Meier...without numerous other logical candidates). The images are grainy and minuscule and the text is adequate to serve as a primer. These are nonetheless cheap enough to justify getting the whole series (in addition to Gustavo Gili there's a Princeton Arch. Press version as well as a Chinese version}and I particularly like the humble white covers.