Master Architecture, In-depth Study, Study trip, Semester/Year, SS2022

Dutch Structuralism – The human being at the centre of house and city

The interest of the «In-depth study» team in adopting a thematic and temporal focus to get to the bottom of the paradigm shifts in the history of architecture also formed the basis of their research in the Spring Semester 2022. After examining Swiss architecture around 1968 in the conflicting context of building boom and counter-culture, the students were now looking at the architectural debate in Holland in the 1960s and 1970s.

Lectures

This semester, the following three specialists hold lectures in the in-depth study module: Prof. Herman Hertzberger, Architect and professor at TU Delft, Dr. Alejandro Campos Uribe, Post-doc at TU Delft and Prof. Dr. Annie Pedret, architect SMArchS. Dr. Campos Uribe’s lecture was entitled «Amsterdam’s Orphanage, a house is a small city, a city is a big house» and Prof. Pedret presented her book «Team 10: an archival history».

Prof. Herman Hertzberger

Dr. Alejandro Campos Uribe

Prof. Dr. Annie Pedret

Study trip

The study trip took us to The Netherlands, where we visited important buildings in different cities from the period between 1950 and 1980. In addition to the large-scale urban planning projects of the post-war era, which were in effect the precondition for the structuralist, CIAM critical movement, we focused on the residential and educational buildings of Aldo van Eyck, Herman Hertzberger and Piet Blom. In doing so, we expected not only to reach a deeper understanding of this period’s positions on urban design and human coexistence but also to examine the relevance of these conceptions to the present.

Walking through Amsterdam-Zuid

Aldo van Eyck, Hubertushuis

Group photo with Herman Hertzberger, Amsterdam

Herman Hertzberger, student housing, Amsterdam

Aldo van Eyck, Orphanage, Amsterdam

Herman Herzberger, Apollo School

Herman Hertzberger, Centraal Beheer hoofdkantoor

Ernestinus Groosman, woningbouw Nagele

Jaap Bakema, Auditorium TU Delft

Study trip bag at the beach

Aldo van Eyck, Pastoor van Ars Church

Best works

The module serves to teach scientific working methods and concentrated thinking and writing. It offers the opportunity to reflect in writing on one‘s own actions as a designing architect. The aim is to write an independent in-depth thesis relevant to the topic.

Hertzberger’s vertikaler Strassenraum by Rebecca Baer