Showing posts with label architect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architect. Show all posts

Jacob Gustaaf Erik Luyt (1914-2000) Architect

Jacob Luyt was a Dutch architect born in The Hague. He was attached to the architects 'Roosenburg Verhave and Luyt'.

He was Co-Author of 'Plan 2000' in The Hague.

Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) Architect

Edwin Lutyens was an English architect. His work stood out from the artistic application of the classical style. He started as an architect of residence, but later on he built town houses and in the period between the first and tweed world war many bank buildings. Along with Gertrude Jekell he did the landscaping revive. After the first world war, he was responsible for the design of a number of war memorials.

Main achievements
Crooksbury Heathcote (1890).
Ilkley in Yorkshire (1906).
Brittannic House Bank.
Finsbury Circus in London (1926-1929).
Midland Bank building.
Gladstone Hall in Yorkshire, built according to the English tradition.
Middleton Park Oxfshire, built according to the English tradition.
Government Buildings in New Delhi (1930).
Cenotaaph in Whitehall, War Memorial of the First World War.

Henri de la Lussant the Sabloniere (1907-2002) Architect and engineer

Henri de la Lussant the Sabloniere was a Dutch architect and structural engineer.

Main achievements
Restoration of the Empire Abbey Buildings in Middelburg (destroyed during WWII).
Restoration of the Provincial Registry and the National Archives, together with prof. Ir. JF Berghoef.

André Lurçat (1892-1970) Architect

André Lurçat was a French architect. He was a supporter of the New Objectivity. He built many homes in and outside Paris. In his later years he built kindergartens, nurseries, holiday camps and numerous other public buildings. He was also responsible for the remediation of the St. Denis-district in Paris and the reconstruction of Maubeuge.

Main achievements
Cité Seurat, a center for art, here the roof terraces are remarkable.
Outdoor School in Villejuif, just outside Paris.

Adolf Loos (1870-1933) Architect

Adolf Loos was an Austrian architect. He worked from 1893-1897 in America, then from 1898-1913 in Vienna and from 1924-1928 in Paris. As an innovator in architecture, he had a major influence in building Austrian buildings. He worked for a practical and simple construction. He was against ornaments. His work therein against excels by the choice of the material and by the proper proportions.

Main achievements
Shop on the Michaelerplatz in Vienna (1910).

John Jacobs Loghem (1882-1940) Architect

John Loghem was a Dutch architect. He built a lot of buildings in and around Haarlem.

Main achievements
Tuinwijk Zuid in Haarlem.
Tuinwijk North in Haarlem
Mansion 'The Stone Hague' in Haarlem.
Sportfondsenbad in Haarlem.

Thomas Arthur Lodge (1888-1967) Architect

Thomas Lodge was an English architect. He was from 1922 part of the architects 'Lanchester and Lodge'. Besides many schools and homes he built many important buildings.

Main achievements
University building in Leeds, this modern style with a tower in the middle and a large library (Brotherton Library).
Buildings University of Oxford,
University Buildings Cambridge
Buildings University of Sheffield
University Buildings of Belfast.
St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London
Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
Palace of Rajah of Jodhpur.

Johannes Jacobus van der Linden (1907-1993) Architect

Johannes Jacobus van der Linden was a Dutch architect. He realized numerous manors.

Main achievements
Rebuilding of the Industrial School for the female youth in Amsterdam, along with Knijtijzer H. (1950).
Boathouse for the student rowing club 'Nereus'.

Jean Marie de Ligne (1890-?) Architect and urban planner

Jean Marie de Ligne was a Belgian architect and town planner. He was also a teacher in architecture at the High School of Architecture La Cambre in Brussels. He was also Laureate of the International competition for the League of Nations Palace in Geneva.

Main achievements
Taste Labs Remy factories in Weygmael (1930).
Garden Districts in Zaventhem, Auderghem, Woluwe and St. Peter's.
Laboratories and administrative buildings of the mines and foundries of the 'Vieille Montage' in Baelen.

J. William H. Leliman (1879-1921) Architect

William Leliman was a Dutch architect. He built a number of houses and was editor of the Construction World and author of several books about houses and homes in the Netherlands. He also reworked Gugel's History of architectural styles. From 1919 he was a member of the National Commission for the Conservation.

Main achievements
Domestic science in Amsterdam (1907-1909)
Villa de Breay in Laren (1908)
Bussum Villa Dennenhoeve in Bussum (1909)
Villa Dennenrode in Hilversum (1910)
Diepenbrock villa in Laren (1910)
Villa Broad Avenue 11 in Bussum (1911)
North South Holland Coffee Shop in Amsterdam (1911)
Israelite Kinderhospitium Zandvoort (1912)
Villa 't South End in Hilversum (1912)
Villa Loenen Martinet Houses (1912)
Social housing in Vogelbuurt - Meeuwenlaan - Hawk Hitting - Leeuwerikstraat located in Amsterdam (1913-1914)
Social housing in Vogelbuurt - Meeuwenlaan - Koekoeksplein - Fazantenweg - Wielewaalstraat located in Amsterdam (1913-1914)
Villa Small Elswoud in Houses (1914)
Villa 't Loover in Houses (1918)
Villa de Zonnetop in Blaricum (1920)
Women's vocational school in Zutphen (1920)
Two villas in Ulft (1920)
Main Maurits mine in Geleen (1922-1924)

Albert Laprade (1883-1978) architect, engineer and town planner.

Albert Laprade was a French architect, engineer and town planner. He was especially active in building dams in Rhône. He was one of the architects entrusted with the reorganization of the Ilot 16, the section of Paris, where the first to remediation has passed after the Second World War.

Main realisatis
He worked in the construction of the dams in the Rhone between Geneva and the Mediterranean Sea, commissioned by the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône.
Dam and related buildings in Génissiat (1938).

Johannes Antonius van der Laan (1896-1966) Architect and building engineer.

Johannes van der Laan was a Dutch architect and building engineer.

Main achievements
The Roman Catholic Church "The Good Shepherd" in Wassenaar (1931).
Building C. and A. Brenninkmeyer in Utrecht (1938).
City Hall in Eindhoven, this design Johannes van der Laan was awarded following a competition in 1938.
Elderly House St. Joseph in Beverwijk
St. Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven
Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in The Hague (1954)
Mary Foundation in Haarlem
RK Industrial and Domestic Science Mons Aurea in Haarlem (1951-1960)
St. Stanislas Chapel in Delft (1955-1956)
Great Ziekengasthuis' s-Hertogenbosch
St. Joseph Church in Leiden (925)
Leonard's Church in Leiden (1925)
Vroom & Dreesmann Leiden (1936)
Urban plan for the Nijmegen University
Radboud Hospital in Nijmegen
C & A buildings in Amsterdam, Breda, Dordrecht, Gouda, Haarlem, Hoogeveen, Oosterhout, Roermond and Rotterdam.

Clemens Klotz (1886-1969) Architect

Clemens Klotz was a German architect.
NS Ordenburg Vogelsang
He first realized many homes in his hometown Cologne.
When the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, Clements Klotz was recorded, in the circle of 'Vertrauensarchitekten of DAF. He created large projects that served for the martial arts.

Main achievements
House Regierungsrat Dr. Rhein Dorff, Köln-Marienburg (1922)
Heckmann house in Cologne-Marienburg (1923).
Director Property Farbwerke Hosfelt in Cologne-Braunsfeld (1923).
House Sauerwald house in Cologne-Lindenthal, along with Fielth (1924-1925).
Klotz house in Cologne-Marienburg (1925).
Youth for the Catholic Church Community St. Anna in Cologne-Ehrenfeld (1925)
Youth for the Catholic Church Community St. Joseph in Cologne-Braunsfeld (1925-1926).
Hochpfortenhaus in Cologne together with Fieth (1930).
NS Ordensburg Vogelsang in Bauabschnitt (1933-1935) (military barracks).
NS Ordensburg Crössinsee in Bauabschnitt (1934-1936) (military barracks).
KdF-Seebad Prora Hotel in Rügen (1935-1939).
Residential and retail Neumarkt in Cologne (1952).

Auke Komter (1904-1982) Architect

Auke Komter was a Dutch architect. He built houses in numerous places. He also designed numerous chairs including the "Easy Chair" in 1935.

Main realistaties
Storehouse Amsterdam, together with M. Duintjer (1938).
Boathouse for "The Hope" (1951).
Boathouse for "Nereus" (1953).
Town hall in Zweeloo.
New Reformed Church in Maasdijk.
War Memorial in Damplantsoen, Amsterdam, along with AJ van der Steur).
Cemetery in Bloemendaal, along with GH Holt.
Home for the elderly "The Klokkenbelt in Amelo (1952).
Easy Chair in (1935).

Bernardus Joannes Koldewey (1895-1958) Architect

Bernard Koldewey was a Dutch architect. He was first a textile merchant, but he felt more for buildings and architecture. Therefore he followed a free course architecture at the Technical University in Delft.

Main achievements
Hospital 'St. Antoniushove "in For Bridge (1927).
Sanatorium 'Berg and Bosh' in Bilthoven, together with CM van Moorsel (1931-1933).
Monastery of Our Lady to Eem 'in Amersfoort (1932).

Carl Koch (1912-1998) Architect

Carl Koch was an American architect. He works temporarily with Edward D. Stone and with the office of Gropius and Breuer. Together with Eward Stone, he won the first prize for a competition of the Pittsburgh Glass Manufactory in 1939.

Main achievements
Group of 8 houses on Snake Hill in Belmont, Massachusetts (1940-1942). The houses were integrated in a special way in the landscape.
Acorn House (1948).
Staff accommodation for the US Embassy in Belgrade (1956).
The houses Techcrete Academy (1962).
Eliot House at Mount Holyoke College (1962).
Lewis Wharf Condominiums (1972-1973), residential renovation of a Boston Waterfront granite warehouse that was built in 1840 on the site of Paul Revere's silversmith shop and John Hancock's warehouses.

Ralph Knott (1879-1922) Architect

Ralph Knott was an English architect. At the age of 29 he won the competition for the London County Hall (1912-1922), in which almost all prominent architects participated. However, he died before the building was finished, therefore it was finished by GG Scott. The building was erected in a classical style and is especially notable for the many windows.

Hermanus van der Kloot Meyburg (1875-1961) Architect

Hermanus was a Dutch architect. He was known for building many houses and farms in Voorbrug and Wassenaar. He renovated lots of buildings.

Main achievements
Restoration of the New Church in Delft.
Restoration of St. Martin's church in Alkmaar (1923-1927 and 1940-1949).
The 'Long John' in Middelburg, with Ir. A. Rotshuizen, of which only the torso remained after the Second World War (1946).

Jan Piet Kloos (1905-2001) Architect

Jan Kloos was a Dutch architect.

Main achievements
Rijnlands Lyceum in Wassenaar.
Gnome House in Amsterdam.
Sports Pavilion in Aardenburg.
Hospital in Terneuzen.

P.V.J. Klint (1853-1930) Architect and Building engineer

P.V.J. Klint was a Danish building engineer and architect. He was an outstanding mathematician and a nature lover. He was full of admiration for the geometric construction of natural things, such as one cochlea. He found an organic development of the architecture of the utmost importance. All of his buildings are derived from the old Danish architecture.

Main achievements
Grundtvig Memorial Church: This was also his last work. It has a threefold speed above the entrance, with outposts match located behind ships. It is formed with mathematical consequence. Both outside and inside you find the same yellow brick. What you would not expect is that the interior is not totally about mechanically, this by the variety of the incidence of daylight. In the tower is a spiral staircase in brick masonry, it is constructed as beautiful as the cochlea that he studied in his youth.