Jacob Berend "Jaap" Bakema (8 March 1914 – 20 February 1981) was a Dutch modernist

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, notable for design of public housing and involvement in the reconstruction of

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after the

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. Born in Groningen, Bakema studied at the Groningen Higher Technical College (1931–1936) and the Academy of Architecture in

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, where he studied among others with

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. In 1946 he began attending meetings of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne, became its Secretary in 1955, and was a core member of its offshoot Team 10. From 1948 onward, Bakema worked with Jo van den Broek in the architectural firm Van den Broek and Bakema. They collaborated to design landmarks and neighborhoods in

and around the

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, and participated in the 1957

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project in Berlin. In 1964 Bakema became a professor at

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, and in 1965 became a professor at Staatliche Hochschule in

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References

Jaap Bakema
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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 {{Netherlands-architect-stub