The Complete Works

J.J.P. Oud

1 8 9 0 - 1 9 6 3 The Complete Works

With contributions of:

Ed Taverne Dolf Broekhuizen

Cor Wagenaar Bernard Colenbrander

Martien de Vletter Maartje Taverne

Sander van Wees

Contents

Formative Years

Preface 9 Introduction 1 1

Lonely Explorations along

the Horizon of our Times

J.J.P. Oud and the Modern Movement 15

/] i.

Education: Amsterdam, Delft and Munich 55

Aspiring Architect: Purmerend,

Beemster, Aalsmeer and Heemstede 60 62 1 / Oud-Hartog House Purmerend, 1906-1907 63 2 / Beets House Purmerend, 1910 64 3 / Beerens House Purmerend, 1912 65 4 / Moerbeek House Purmerend, 1913-1914 66 5 / Project for a Country House

with Architect's Office Location unknown 1915 67 6 / Alterations to Two Shops

with Upstairs Rats Purmerend, 1914 68 7 / Brand House Beemster, 1912 70 8 / Houtman House Beemster, 1914 72 9 / G.J. Oud House Aalsmeer, 1912

74 1 0 / Shop with Upstairs Flat (Van Lent)

Heemstede, 1913 75 1 1 / Shop with Dwelling

(Van Bakel) Heemstede, 1914 77 1 2 / Essen-Vinckers Villa

Blaricum, 1915-1916

79 1 3 / House for Mr & Mrs Blaauw Alkmaar, 1916

80 1 4 / Design for Three Villas Velp, 1916

8 1 15/ Stable Purmerend, 1911

82 1 6 / Building Complex for the 'Vooruit' Working Men's Club Purmerend, 1911-1912 87 1 7 / Schinkel Cinema

Purmerend, 1912

90 1 8 / Competition Design for a Village School

1913

9 1 1 9 / Extension to Wed. G. Oud Liqueur Distillery

Purmerend, 1916

Established Architect at Leiden 93 95 2 0 / Renovation of Rappard House

Leiden, 1917

96 2 1 / Housing, Leiderdorp Leiderdorp, 1914-1915 103 2 2 / Leidsch Dagblad Building

Leiden, 1916-1917

104 2 3 / Competition Design for a Museum of Indonesian Art Notional location, 1914 105 2 4 / Competition Design for an

Old People's Home Hilversum, 1915

Pioneer of the

'New Architecture'

107 2 5 / Competition Design for a Military Hostel

Den Helder, 1915

109 2 6 / Competition Design for Public Baths

The Hague, 1914-1915 110 2 7 / Project for the 'Helder'

Junior Technical School Den Helder, 1917

De Stijh Van Doesburg and Mondrian 112

124 2 8 / De Geus House Broek in Waterland, 1916 127 2 9 / Villa Allegonda

Katwijk aan Zee, 1916/1917-1928 139 3 0 / De Vonk Holiday Hostel

Noordwijkerhout, 1917-1919 145 3 1 / Seafront Terrace Housing

(Strandboulevard) Scheveningen, 1917 150 3 2 / Design for Factory and

Warehouse

Purmerend, 1919-1920 158 3 3 / Studio in the Dunes

Katwijk aan Zee, 1919 J.J.P. Oud and H.P. Berlage 159

The Gemeentelijke Woningdienst in Rotterdam 191

198 3 4 / Subdivision Plan for Varkenoordsche Polder Rotterdam, 1920 200 3 5 / Subdivision Plan for

Mathenesser Polder Rotterdam/Schiedam, 1920

Standardization 202

274 4 5 / Kiefhoek Workers' Housing Rotterdam. 1925-1930

286 4 6 / Kiefhoek Church Rotterdam. 1927

290 4 7 / Five Row Houses in the Weissenhofsiedlung Stuttgart, 1926-1927

304 4 8 / Blijdorp Municipal Housing Rotterdam. 1931-1932

204 3 6 / Design for Standard Housing 312 4 9 / Project for the Kallenbach Types / Street Composition House

1919 Berlin, 1921-1922

Reinforced Concrete Rotterdam, 1919

215 3 8 / Design for Emergency Housing Below a Railway Viaduct Rotterdam. 1918

Material and Colour 216

218 3 9 / Spangen Municipal Housing Scheme, Blocks I & V

Rotterdam. 1918-1920

227 4 0 / Spangen Municipal Housing Scheme, Blocks Vlil and IX

Rotterdam. 1919-1920

319 5 0 / Design for Three-Family House Brno. 1928

320 5 1 / House for Mrs H.H. Johnson Pinehurst, USA. 1931

332 5 2 / Gravestone, E.T.J. Dinaux Heemstede. 1925

333 5 3 / Gravestone Driehuis. 1932

Oud and the Public Building 334 336 5 4 / Design for the

Volksuniversiteit Rotterdam, 1924-1927 239 4 1 / Tusschendijken Municipal 340

Housing Scheme, Blocks I, HI & V Rotterdam. 1920-1924

347 247 4 2 / Oud-Mathenesse Municipal

Housing Scheme (Witte Dorp)

Rotterdam. 1922-1924 350 256 4 3 / Oud-Mathenesse Site Manager's Hut Rotterdam. 1923 5 5 / Cafe De Unie Rotterdam. 1925 5 6 / Hotel Stiassni

Brno. 1926

260 4 4 / Hoek van Holland Housing Scheme

New Architecture

in Crisis

Oud's Designs after Leaving 386 the Woningdienst 365

367 5 8 / Cover for Het Overzicht 389

1924

368 5 9 / Cover for Rotterdam.

Outlines of Extension and Housing 395

1925

370 6 0 / Writing Paper, Envelope and Cover for De Opbouw, 396 democratlsch tijdschrift voor

Nederland en Indie

1935-1936

397 3 7 1 6 1 / Piano Lamp / Giso 404

1927

6 8 / Interiors for Dr. D. Hannema Rotterdam, 1934,1937

6 9 / Interior of SS Nieuw Amsterdam

1936-1938

7 0 / Dining Room interiors for MS Zaandam and MS Noordam

1937-1938

7 1 / Design for a Standard Holiday Cottage

Renesse, 1933-1934 7 2 / Design for a House on a Deep Site

1933

Oud and the Public Building 405 Ornament 406

408 8 0 / Competition Design for the Amsterdam Town Hall

Amsterdam, 1936-1937

4 1 1 8 1 / Head Office of the Bataafsche Import Maatschappij (Shell) The Hague, 1937-1942, 1946-1948 (restoration)

372 6 2 / Cabinet for the Domela Nieuwenhuis Collection Rotterdam, 1925

398 7 3 / Project for a Row of Six Houses

1934 374 6 3 / Design for Royal Begeer

Silver Factory

1934

399 7 4 / Project for a Private House for the Dinaux Family

Haarlem, 1934 375 6 4 / Furniture Designs for

Metz & Co 1933-1934 379 6 5 / Knitting Chair

1950

380 6 6 / Interior of M.J.I, de Jonge van Ellemeet's Study

Rotterdam, 1930-1931

Design Process and Office Organization

382

384 6 7 / Architect's study Rotterdam, 1933-1935

400 7 5 / Studio Dwellings

1935

4 0 1 7 6 / Project for a Private House in Blaricum

Blaricum, 1935

402 7 7 / Design for a Private House for Mr & Mrs Pfeffer de Leeuw Blaricum, 1935-1936

403 7 8 / Design for a Holiday Cottage for Mr & Mrs Pfeffer de Leeuw Laren, 1935

404 7 9 / Director's House,

Maatschap De Wilhelminapolder Wilhelminapolder, 1936-1937

4 War and Recovery

Wartime Reconstruction 425 429 8 2 / Hofplein Design

Rotterdam, 1942-1945

Oud and the Visual Arts 434

436 8 3 / The Spaarbank Rotterdam, 1942-1957 448 8 4 / Design for Shops and

Dwellings for Olveh Rotterdam, 1942

449 8 5 / Meddens & Zoon Store Rotterdam, 1944

Commemoration 450

451 8 6 / Design for a Monument for De Nederlanden van 1845 The Hague, 1943-1945 453 8 7 / Grebbeberg National Army

Memorial

Rhenen, 1948-1953 457 8 8 / National Monument on

Dam Square

Amsterdam, 1946-1956

462 8 9 / Alternative Restoration Plan for Sint Laurenskerk

Rotterdam, 1950

465 9 0 / Polder Tower Competition Emmeloord, 1951

474 9 2 / Design for Standard Type Workers' Dwellings

1947

476 9 3 / 360 Dwellings at Arnhem Arnhem, 1951-1953

480 9 4 / Design for a Double House for the De la Court Family Overveen, 1950

482 9 5 / Design for Gatekeeper's Lodge, Hoge Veluwe National Park Otterlo, 1957

484 9 6 / Design for Plate House Voorburg, 1960

487 9 7 / Competition Design for the Head Office of Nederlandse Hoogovens & Staalfabrieken Umuiden/Velsen, 1947-1948 488 9 8 / Main and Service Buildings

for the Dutch Reformed Church

The Hague, 1949-1959

Rotterdam, 1947-1950 494 1 0 0 / Facade NV Chemische

Industrie De Adelaar Office Apeldoom. 1950-1952

495 1 0 1 / Design for Development on Velperplein in Arnhem

Arnhem. 1951-1953

500 1 0 4 / Rhenen Town Hall Rhenen, 1958-1960 503 1 0 5 / Almelo Town Hall

Almelo, 1962-1973 De Stijl- Then and Now 507

510 1 0 6 / Bio Convalescent Centre for Children

Arnhem, 1952-1960 522 1 0 7 / Glass Room, Haags

Gemeentemuseum The Hague, 1954 523 1 0 8 / De Utrecht Rotterdam, 1954-1961 532 1 0 9 / Tweede Vrijzinnig Christelijk Lyceum The Hague. 1949-1956 Library Order 540

542 1 1 0 / Design for Kiefhoek District Library

Rotterdam. 1956-1957 544 1 1 1 / Netherlands Congress

Centre

The Hague, 1956-1963

Struggle for a 'Fresh Architecture' 468 496 1 0 2 / Competition for Zuid-Holland Provinciehuis 472 9 1 / Urban Design and Supervision The Hague, 1951-1952

of Vredenburg/ Jaarbeurs Site

Utrecht, 1949-1961 499 1 0 3 / Design for an Extension to Groningen Town Hall

Groningen. 1948

553 List of Original Documents 555 Index of Personal Names 558 Index of Place Names 559 Bibliography

567 Published Articles by J.J.P. Oud 575 Colophon