Cornelis van Eesteren

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Cornelis van Eesteren and Theo van Doesburg in their Paris studio in 1923

Cornelis van Eesteren (born July 4, 1897 in Alblasserdam , † February 21, 1988 in Amsterdam ), also known as Cor or Cornelius, was a Dutch architect and town planner .

Life

From 1922/1923 he was a member of the De Stijl artist group . He implemented his idea of ​​the functional city from 1929 to 1960 as an urban planner for Amsterdam , among other things when planning the Jeruzalem housing estate . Van Eesteren was a leading contributor to the constitution of the Athens Charter . From 1930 to 1947 he was chairman of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne .

literature

  • Franziska Bollerey (Ed.): Cornelis van Eesteren, Urbanism between “de Stijl” and CIAM Birkhäuser Verlag, Braunschweig [u. a.] 1999, ISBN 3-528-06103-0

Web links

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