Piet Blom (; February 8, 1934,
Amsterdam – June 8, 1999,
Denmark
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) was a Dutch architect best known for his 'Kubuswoningen' (
cube house
Cube houses ( nl, kubuswoningen) are a set of innovative houses built in Helmond and Rotterdam in the Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of "living as an urban roof": high density housing with sufficient space o ...
s) built in
Helmond
Helmond (; called ''Héllemond'' in the local dialect) is a city and municipality in the Metropoolregio Eindhoven of the province of North Brabant in the Southern Netherlands.
Helmond is home to several textile and metal companies. The Vlisco f ...
in the mid-1970s and in
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 ...
in the early 1980s. He studied at the Amsterdam Academy of Building-Arts as a student of
Aldo van Eyck
Aldo van Eyck (; 16 March 1918 – 14 January 1999) was a Dutch architect. He was one of the most influential protagonists of the architectural movement Structuralism.
Family
He was born in Driebergen, Utrecht, a son of poet, critic, essayist ...
.
Blom was selected as the Dutch
Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...
recipient in 1962.
Blom, Aldo van Eyck,
Herman Hertzberger
Herman Hertzberger (born 6 July 1932) is a Dutch architect, and a professor emeritus of the Delft University of Technology. In 2012 he received the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Biography
Herman Hertzberger was ...
and others are representatives of the
Structuralism
In sociology, anthropology, archaeology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, structuralism is a general theory of culture and methodology that implies that elements of human culture must be understood by way of their relationship to a broader s ...
movement.
There is a museum dedicated to Blom's works that opened in May 2013 in
Hengelo
Hengelo (; Tweants: ) is a city in the eastern part of the Netherlands, in the province of Overijssel. The city lies along the motorways A1/E30 and A35 and it has a station for the international Amsterdam – Hannover – Berlin service.
Popul ...
, Netherlands.
Piet Blom Museum
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References
External links
Cubic Houses website
Piet Blom Museum
1934 births
1999 deaths
Modernist architects
Structuralists
Architects from Amsterdam
Prix de Rome (Netherlands) winners
20th-century Dutch architects
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