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Aldo van Eyck - Wikipedia

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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: [ˈɑldoː vɑn ˈɛik]; 16 March 1918 – 14 January 1999^[1]) was a Dutch architect. He was one of the most influential protagonists of the architectural movement Structuralism.

Family

He was born in Driebergen, Utrecht, a son of poet, critic, essayist and philosopher Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck or van Eijk and wife Nelly Estelle Benjamins, a woman of Sephardic origin born and raised in Suriname.^[2]^[3]^[4]

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.^[5]

Early life and career

His family moved to the United Kingdom in 1919 and he was educated at Sidcot School, Somerset, from 1932 to 1935, after which he finished his secondary school in The Hague between 1935 and 1938, and went to study at the ETH Zurich. He graduated in 1942, after which he remained in Switzerland until the end of World War II, where he entered the circle of many other avant-garde artists around Carola Giedion-Welcker, wife of historian Sigfried Giedion.

He taught at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture from 1954 to 1959 and he was a professor at the Delft University of Technology from 1966 to 1984. He also was editor of the architecture magazine Forum from 1959 to 1963 and in 1967.

Later career

A member of CIAM and 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 magazine Forum between 1959 and 1963, alongside Herman Hertzberger and Jaap Bakema. This helped publicise the "Team 10" call for a return to humanism within architectural design. ^[6]

Van Eyck received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1990.

He died at Loenen aan de Vecht, aged 80.

Structures

Design for village of Nagele, 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-ESTEC restaurant and conference centre, Noordwijk, 1984–1990

Sources

Raphaël Labrunye, L'orphelinat d'Aldo van Eyck ; De la réception de l'œuvre à la genèse du projet, Paris, Métis Presse, 2016, 256 p.

References

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^ "Aldo van Eyck". Team 10 On line. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
^ Wage, H.A. (1979) "Eijk, Pieter Nicolaas van (1887–1954)" in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland
^ Eilers, Marlene A. (1987) Queen Victoria's Descendants, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., ISBN 9163059649, p. 167
^ Fernández-Galiano, Luis (16 January 1999) Fallece Aldo van Eyck, arquitecto clave del estructuralismo holandés. El Pais
^ "Aldo van Eyck". Team 10 On line. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
^ Steigenga, Madeleine (2003). Lessons : Tupker-Risselada : a double portrait of Dutch architectural education, 1953/2003 = Lessen : Tupker-Risselada : dubbelportret van het nederlands architectuuronderwija 1953/2003. Dirk van den Heuvel, Jaap van Triest. Nijmegen: SUN. ISBN 90-5875-051-5. OCLC 55534863.

v t e Laureates of the Wolf Prize in Arts
Architecture	Ralph Erskine (1983/4) Fumihiko Maki / Giancarlo De Carlo (1988) Frank Gehry / Jørn Utzon / Denys Lasdun (1992) Frei Otto / Aldo van Eyck (1996/7) Álvaro Siza Vieira (2001) Jean Nouvel (2005) David Chipperfield / Peter Eisenman (2010) Eduardo Souto de Moura (2013) Phyllis Lambert (2016) Moshe Safdie (2019) Elizabeth Diller / Momoyo Kaijima / Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (2022)
Music	Vladimir Horowitz / Olivier Messiaen / Josef Tal (1982) Isaac Stern / Krzysztof Penderecki (1987) Yehudi Menuhin / Luciano Berio (1991) Zubin Mehta / György Ligeti (1995/6) Pierre Boulez / Riccardo Muti (2000) Mstislav Rostropovich / Daniel Barenboim (2004) Giya Kancheli / Claudio Abbado (2008) Plácido Domingo / Simon Rattle (2012) Jessye Norman / Murray Perahia (2015) Paul McCartney / Ádám Fischer (2018) Stevie Wonder / Olga Neuwirth (2021) György Kurtág (2024)
Painting	Marc Chagall / Antoni Tàpies (1981) Jasper Johns (1986) Anselm Kiefer (1990) Gerhard Richter (1994/5) Louise Bourgeois (2002/3) Michelangelo Pistoletto (2006/7) Rosemarie Trockel (2011) Cindy Sherman (2020)
Sculpture	Eduardo Chillida (1984/5) Claes Oldenburg (1989) Bruce Nauman (1993) James Turrell (1998) Louise Bourgeois (2002/3) Michelangelo Pistoletto (2006/7) Olafur Eliasson (2014) Laurie Anderson / Lawrence Weiner (2017) Fujiko Nakaya / Richard Long (2023)

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