The Making Of The Modern Movement 4

THE MAKING OF THE MODERN MOVEMENT 4

Holland is characterized by its urban tradition as well as by the post cubist movement of D’stijl. Being left out of the First World War, building continueswithout difficulties, and the cultural investigations have time to progress according to the technical progress.

THE DUTCH CONTRIBUTION

There are two trends:
-The School of Amsterdam, fromBerlage, that represents the conservative force with Dudok. -The D´Stijl or NeoPlasticism from Van Doesburg that represents the renewed force with JJP Oud.

Berlage, The Stock Market in AmsterdamJacobus Johannes Pieter Oud

Jacob Johannes Pieter Oud
 He is named, in 1918, chief

architect of Rotterdam City. His first housing projects are the Spangen Neighborhood, in 1918, and theTusschendijken Neighborhood in 1919, where a few D’stijl elements can be found.
Oud accepts symmetry in the uniform housing row repetition, brick walls, and the simplification of each structural element.His next housing project (Mathenesse, 1922) is located in a free triangular block, and Oud, as Berlage, can not find a valid way to solve the composition.

In 1924 he builds his first master work:the row Twin Houses in the Hoek van Holland suburb. Two equal blocks contain two rows of houses in a way that the facade modulates the rhythm; the endings are rounded in order to maintain this rhythmallowing continuity.
Another important work by Oud is the working class neighborhood of Kiefhoek (1925). It was built on an irregular block in the south neighborhood of Rotterdam. The houses areessentially similar: the prototype housing is a two story element in a row in which the windows of the second floor of all houses are at the same level, leaving the windows as a continuous stripe. TheKiefhoek stands out as an architectonic island in the Rotterdam surroundings.

To value the result of Oud’s housing projects the economic aspect cannot be forgotten. Oud showed the possibility to...