Aldo van Eyck

In thisDutch name,thesurnameisvan Eyck,notEyck.

Aldo van Eyck
Aldo van Eyck in 1970
Born	(1918-03-16)16 March 1918 Driebergen,Netherlands
Died	14 January 1999(1999-01-14)(aged 80) Loenen aan de Vecht,Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Alma mater	ETH Zurich
Occupation	Architect

Aldo van Eyck(Dutch pronunciation:[ˈɑldoːvɑnˈɛik];16 March 1918 – 14 January 1999) was a Dutcharchitect.He was one of the most influential protagonists of the architectural movementStructuralism.

Family

He was born inDriebergen,Utrecht,a son ofpoet,critic,essayistandphilosopherPieter Nicolaas van Eyckor van Eijk and wife Nelly Estelle Benjamins, a woman ofSephardicorigin born and raised inSuriname.

His brother was poet, artist and art restorer Robert Floris van Eyck or van Eijk. He was married to Hannie van Rooijen, also an architect. She assisted him in several projects.

Early life and career

His family moved to the United Kingdom in 1919 and he was educated atSidcot School,Somerset, from 1932 to 1935, after which he finished his secondary school inThe Haguebetween 1935 and 1938, and went to study at theETH Zurich.He graduated in 1942, after which he remained inSwitzerlanduntil the end ofWorld War II,where he entered the circle of many other avant-garde artists aroundCarola Giedion-Welcker,wife ofhistorianSigfried Giedion.

He taught at theAmsterdamAcademy of Architecture from 1954 to 1959 and he was aprofessorat theDelft University of Technologyfrom 1966 to 1984. He also was editor of the architecture magazineForumfrom 1959 to 1963 and in 1967.

Later career

A member ofCIAMand then in 1954 a co-founder of "Team 10",Van Eyck lectured throughout Europe and northern America propounding the need to reject Functionalism and attacking the lack of originality in most post-war Modernism. Van Eyck was as co-editor of the Dutch magazineForumbetween 1959 and 1963, alongsideHerman HertzbergerandJaap Bakema.This helped publicise the "Team 10" call for a return to humanism within architectural design.

Van Eyck received theRIBARoyal Gold Medalin 1990.

He died atLoenen aan de Vecht,aged 80.

Structures

Municipal Orphanage in Amsterdam, 1960 (Aldo van Eyck)

• Design for village ofNagele,Noordoostpolder, 1948–1954
• Housing for the Elderly,Slotermeer,Amsterdam, 1951–1952
• Amsterdam Orphanage,Amsterdam, 1955–1960
• Primary Schools, Nagele, Noordoostpolder, 1954–1956
• Hubertus House,Amsterdam, 1973–1978
• ESA-ESTECrestaurant and conference centre,Noordwijk,1984–1990