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Willem Marinus Dudok
Información personal
Nacimiento 6 de julio de 1884
Ámsterdam

Defunción 6 de abril de 1974
Hilversum

Carrera profesional
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Premios Medalla de Oro del RIBA
Medalla de Oro del AIA



Ayuntamiento de Hilversum.
Willem Marinus Dudok (6 dejulio de 1884, Ámsterdam - 6 de abril de 1974, Hilversum) fue un arquitecto neerlandés.
Dudok se convirtió en 1928 en arquitecto municipal de la ciudad de Hilversum, donde construyó barrios enteros y docenas de edificios públicos. El más conocido de ellos es el ayuntamiento (stadhuis), terminado en 1931. Se había formado en el estilo de la escuela de Ámsterdam, pero ciertas características deeste edificio, como la asimetría, la rotundidez geométrica, o los finos voladizos, estaban claramente inspiradas en la arquitectura de Frank Lloyd Wright, muy en boga por la publicación de su obra en los Países Bajos. Durante muchos años, hasta la década de los años 1960, siguió construyendo en esta ciudad, llegando a tener fama mundial. Fue reconocido con la Medalla de Oro del RIBA en 1935 y la delAIA en 1955.




Willem Marinus Dudok
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Willem Marinus Dudok
Born 6 July 1884
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Died 6 April 1974 (aged89)
Hilversum, Netherlands

Nationality Dutch
Awards Royal Gold Medal (1935)
AIA Gold Medal (1955)

Work
Buildings Hilversum City Hall

Willem Marinus Dudok (6 July 1884, Amsterdam - 6 April 1974, Hilversum), was a Dutch modernist architect, best known for the brick Hilversum City Hall.


Hilversum City Hall


One of several Hilversum schools designed by Dudok
Dudok becameCity Architect for the town of Hilversum in 1928 and designed and built about 75 houses, public buildings and entire neighborhoods there, best known for the brick Hilversum City Hall (Raadhuis), completed in 1931. Not only did he design the building, but also the interior including the carpets, furniture and even the mayor's meeting hammer.
[edit] Development
Dudok's early style grew out of theAmsterdam School but the dramatic massing, asymmetry, the overhanging eaves and other elements of his landmark City Hall were clearly influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Chicago Prairie School. Dudok continued to produce progressive, Dutch modernist structures in Hilversum for decades, through the 1960s, and had international influence. He received the RIBA Gold Medal in 1935 and the AIA GoldMedal in 1955. He also designed buildings in Paris, the Collège néerlandais in the Cité Universitaire, a cultural centre in Baghdad and a cinema in Calcutta.
[edit] Works (selection)
• City Hall, Hilversum, The Netherlands, 1928–1931
• De Bijenkorf (Department store), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1930 (destroyed during World War II)
• Monument on Afsluitdijk, The Netherlands, 1933
• CitéUniversitaire, Collège néerlandais Paris, France, 1939
• City theatre, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1941
• Exxon Gas stations, The Netherlands, 1953



Town Hall Hilversum, at Hilversum, The Netherlands, 1928 to 1931; designed 1924. * 3D Model *
Utrecht Municipal Theater, at Utrecht, Netherlands, 1937 to 1941
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Willem Marinus Dudok(b. Amsterdam 1884; d. Hilversum, Amsterdam 1974)
Willem Dudok was born in Amsterdam in 1884. After graduating as an engineer from the Royal Military Academy at Breda, Dudok spent the first ten years of his architectural career constructing defensive forts and military barracks for the Dutch army. In 1927 he became the City Architect for Hilversum, near Amsterdam, in The Netherlands. In this...