Abe Bonnema (6 September 1926 – 9 August 2001) was a Dutch

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. He studied

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at the

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. He established his own office for architecture and spatial planning, first in

Leeuwarden Leeuwarden (; fy, Ljouwert, longname=yes /; Town Frisian: ''Liwwadden''; Leeuwarder dialect: ''Leewarden'') is a city and municipality in Friesland, Netherlands, with a population of 123,107 (2019). It is the provincial capital and seat of the ...

, then in

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. He was a functionalist architect. In addition to buildings for care, education and offices, Bonnema has designed more than a thousand homes in Leeuwarden.

Selected works

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, 1991,

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tower,

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Exhibitions of his work took place in various museums, including

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in Rotterdam and the

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in New York.

Legacy

The Abe Bonnema Foundation manages the legacy of the Frisian architect. The Foundation aims to contribute to stimulating the quality of architecture in the Netherlands by awarding the Abe Bonnema Prize. At the same time, the Foundation wishes to draw renewed attention to the ideas and oeuvre of the architect ir. Bonnema in this way.

Fries Museum

Bonnema has left a legacy to the city of Leeuwarden under certain conditions (executory

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). The money had to be spent on a new accommodation for the

Fries Museum The Fries Museum (Frisian Museum) is a museum in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. It has won the Global Fine Art Award which is sometimes nicknamed the Museum-Oscar. History (1881-2012) The museum was founded on 13 April 1881 by the "''Provincial Friesch ...

. This new museum had to be built on the Zaailand and the design had to be made by

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in collaboration with his architectural firm Bonnema Architects. The building has been realized and was opened in 2013.

Abe Bonnema Prize

The Abe Bonnema Prize is an initiative of the Abe Bonnema Foundation. The purpose of the Abe Bonnema Prize is to focus attention on the architects of projects that are exemplary through the application of innovative concepts and aspects, set a new standard or be a model of innovation of the architecture.Abe Bonnema Prize
Retrieved 13 March 2018.

References

Bibliography

*Marijke Martin (2003) ''Abe Bonnema architect''. Uitgeverij 010

External links

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Abe Bonnema Foundation

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