Johannes Bernardus (Han) van Loghem (1881–1940) was a Dutch architect, furniture designer and town planner.

Biography

He was born in Haarlem as the son of a bulb grower and after attending high school at the local HBS, he continued his education at the Polytechnical school there for civic engineering. According to the RKD he studied in

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during the years 1905–1909 and was influenced by

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and

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.Johannes Bernardus Loghem
in the RKD After graduation he became an architect in

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where he married the textile artist Berta Neumeier. In 1912 they moved into the house of his own design on the Spaarne river called "Steenhaag". He received many commissions for city planning, including the projects based on the garden city movement, Rosenhaghe (Haarlem),

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(Amsterdam), Ter Cleef, and Tuinwijk-Zuid (Haarlem), which was built on the other side of the street from his own house. One of his patrons was the local electricity company, for whom he designed 80 aggregate transformer buildings. From 1917 to 1919 he was a member of the board of directors of the league of Dutch architects and he taught technical theory at the HBO in Amsterdam from 1916–1925. In 1919 he was one of the founders (which included Berlage, Henriette Roland Holst,

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and the artist Theo van Doesburg) of the League of Revolutionary-Socialist Intellectuals. The league only lasted 3 years, possibly because its members were more artistically than politically engaged. From 1926 to 1928, Van Loghem worked in Siberia on the urban development of an industrial area in central

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, with the mining town of

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as its center. In 1928 he established his office in

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, and joined architecture association 'Opbouw', and would later write for its magazine ''De 8 & Opbouw''. Van Loghem became an ardent advocate of New Objectivity, which he explained in his book ''Bouwen/Bauen/Bâtir/Building'' (Amsterdam: Kosmos, 1932), and exemplified through his designs for private houses, such as ''t Kôrnegoar' in

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(1933), 'Knipscheer' in

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(1937) and 'Hartog' in

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(1937). He died in Haarlem on February 26 1940.

References

J.B. van Loghem
by Wim de Wagt {{DEFAULTSORT:Loghem, Johannes Bernardus 1881 births 1940 deaths Dutch architects Artists from Haarlem