Piet Blom

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Head bust by Piet Blom on the cube houses in Rotterdam
“Cube Houses”, Rotterdam

Piet Blom (born February 8, 1934 in Amsterdam , † June 8, 1999 in Denmark ) was a Dutch architect . He studied in 1959 at the Amsterdam Academie van Bouwkunst as a student of Aldo van Eyck . He is best known for the De Kasbah project in Hengelo (1969–1973) and his unusual cube houses in Helmond and Rotterdam . Piet Blom, Aldo van Eyck and Herman Hertzberger are the best-known Dutch representatives of the architectural movement structuralism .

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