Dudok's Hilversum city hall
Europe, Netherlands, Noord Holland, Hilversum, Raadhuis, Wim Dudok (cut from T & B)
Wim Dudok was an influential architect and urbanist. Remarkable is that he wasn’t trained as an architect or urbanist, but as a civil engineer at the Royal Military Academy (the KMA, the Dutch Westpoint). So his domain was the design of forts and other defensive structures. And in his free time he designed buildings
and was influenced by the rationalist architecture of Berlage.
Dudok eventually became director of municipal works of Hilversum (after a short time in a similar position in Leiden), a thru its industry rapidly growing town. And designed most of the ‘uitbreidingswijken’ - new boroughs (both the urban plans and the architecture) there. And many public buildings, including the town hall (1931) displayed here, with its somewhat modernist and Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired play with building volumes and cantilevers.
Dudok's architecture is still popular, more than a few of the residential buildings realized thru the Dutch VINEX / VONAC etc urban expansion plans are retro-Dudok.
This is number 9 of the Hilversum album.
Dudok's Hilversum city hall
Europe, Netherlands, Noord Holland, Hilversum, Raadhuis, Wim Dudok (cut from T & B)
Wim Dudok was an influential architect and urbanist. Remarkable is that he wasn’t trained as an architect or urbanist, but as a civil engineer at the Royal Military Academy (the KMA, the Dutch Westpoint). So his domain was the design of forts and other defensive structures. And in his free time he designed buildings
and was influenced by the rationalist architecture of Berlage.
Dudok eventually became director of municipal works of Hilversum (after a short time in a similar position in Leiden), a thru its industry rapidly growing town. And designed most of the ‘uitbreidingswijken’ - new boroughs (both the urban plans and the architecture) there. And many public buildings, including the town hall (1931) displayed here, with its somewhat modernist and Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired play with building volumes and cantilevers.
Dudok's architecture is still popular, more than a few of the residential buildings realized thru the Dutch VINEX / VONAC etc urban expansion plans are retro-Dudok.
This is number 9 of the Hilversum album.