Fuck Yeah Aldo van Eyck

[johnroeluna]

Aldo van Eyck, Amsterdam Apartment, 1948

[germanpostwarmodern]

Sculpture Pavilion (1965-66) at Park Sonsbeek in Arnhem, the Netherlands, by Aldo van Eyck

[socks-studio]

Human Structures and Architectural Archetypes: Aldo Van Eyck’s Playgrounds (1947 - 1978)

http://socks-studio.com/2018/02/11/human-structures-and-architectural-archetypes-aldo-van-eycks-playgrounds-1947-1978/

A hugely influential Dutch architect and theorist, Aldo Van Eyck conducted a thirty-years-long (1947 – 1978) research through practice designing hundreds of public playgrounds in Amsterdam while working for the Urban Development Department.

Read more on: http://socks-studio.com/2018/02/11/human-structures-and-architectural-archetypes-aldo-van-eycks-playgrounds-1947-1978/

[poetryconcrete]

Sculpture Pavilion, architecture by Aldo Van Eyck, 1965-66, in Arnhem, Netherlands.

[elarafritzenwalden]

Titus Brandsmaschool Nagele, Flevoland, Netherlands; 1954-57

Aldo van Eyck, H. P. Daniel van Ginkel (photographs by Spiess)

see map | more information 1, 2, 3, 4

via “(Das) Werk, 45” (1958)

[poetryconcrete]

City as a playground, by Aldo van Eyck, 1954, in Dijkstraat, Veenendaal, The Netherlands. 

[poetryconcrete]

Orphanage, architecture by And van Eyck, 1960, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

[poetryconcrete]

Playgrounds, by Aldo van Eyck, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

[design-is-fine]

Aldo van Eyck, Schmela Haus, 1971. © 📷 Achim Kukulies © Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf

Alfred Schmela was the first in Germany, who hired an architect for an art gallery, in this case a gallery house.

[sitegalleryplatform]

There is one thing all children grown up in Amsterdam in the ‘50s, 60’s, 70’s have in common: they will tell you they grew up playing in the numerous playgrounds scattered across the city, design by Aldo van Eyck. Not surprising since there were over seven hundred playgrounds in total. 

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Post #1 by A. Van Lingen and D. Kollarova (don’t miss their event at Site Gallery on Saturday 20 September on the playspaces of Aldo van Eyck)

[sosbrutalism]

Sober but stark: Aldo van Eyck: Pastoor van Arskerk, The Hague, Netherlands,  1963–1969 Photos: Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed 2003 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

[niretoi]

“…the coherence of things does not depend on their subordination to a central dominant principle but on their reciprocal relations”

Aldo Van Eyck (via niretoi)

[juliamoutiez]

Aldo Van Eyck, Amstelveenseweg’s Orphanage, 1955

I’m working on my 3rd architecture year report, about body movements, static architecture, playgrounds, appropriation of space and freedom.

[ryuhohosawa]

Aldo van Eyck  Church in the Hague

[generalnotes]

Aldo Van Eyck : Design for Pestalozzi Village,  1962

[architectureofdoom]

Burgerweeshuis (orphanage), Amsterdam, Aldo van Eyck, 1955-60

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[plusarchitekt]

Wheels of Heaven Church in Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Aldo van Eyck via ArchiDialog