Jacob Berend "Jaap" Bakema (8 March 1914 – 20 February 1981) was a Dutch modernist
architect
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, notable for design of public housing and involvement in the reconstruction of
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"Ne ...
after the
Second World War
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.
Born in
Groningen, Bakema studied at the Groningen Higher Technical College (1931–1936) and the Academy of Architecture in
Amsterdam
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, where he studied among others with
Mart Stam
Mart Stam (August 5, 1899 – February 21, 1986) was a Dutch architect, urban planner, and furniture designer. Stam was extraordinarily well-connected, and his career intersects with important moments in the history of 20th-century Europe ...
. In 1946 he began attending meetings of the
Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne
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, became its Secretary in 1955, and was a core member of its offshoot
Team 10
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.
From 1948 onward, Bakema worked with
Jo van den Broek
Johannes Hendrik ("Jo") van den Broek, (; 4 October 1898 - 6 September 1978) was a Dutch architect influential in the rebuilding of Rotterdam after World War II.
Van den Broek was born in Rotterdam. He joined with Johannes Brinkman in 1936, a ...
in the architectural firm Van den Broek and Bakema. They collaborated to design landmarks and neighborhoods in
Rotterdam
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and around the
Netherlands
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, and participated in the 1957
Interbau
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project in Berlin.
In 1964 Bakema became a professor at
Delft University of Technology
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, and in 1965 became a professor at Staatliche Hochschule in
Hamburg
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References
Jaap Bakema team10online.org
External links
1914 births
1981 deaths
Modernist architects
Structuralists
People from Groningen (city)
Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology
Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne members
20th-century Dutch architects
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