Saturday,  May 25th, 2024

Saturday is devoted to the 20th century. While elsewhere the wealthy were building their extraordinary villas, in Amsterdam a series of visionary architects, employed by forward-thinking housing associations, were creating palaces for the people: avant-garde modernist apartments designed for ordinary working folk. We explore 20th-century developments from the early modernist icons of the Amsterdamse School, with their extraordinary expressionist brickwork, to the live/work complex Tetterode, a survivor of the 1980s squatters movement and an experiment in alternative forms of co-living.

 

Modern House Museums in Amsterdam (3 house tours)

• Live/Work Building Tetterode, Merkelbach en Karsten (Da Costakade), 1950

• Van Eesteren House Museum, Nielsen, Spruit & Van de Kuile, 1952

• Museum Het Schip, Michel de Klerk, 1921

Lunch 

Amsterdam's Most Vibrant Contemporary Residential Icons (3 tours)

• The Skyskraper, J. F. Staal 1932

• Museum De Dageraad, Michel de Klerk, 1923

• Zomerdijkstraat Artits' Studio Houses, Zanstra, Giesen and Sijmons, 1934

Dinner by individual arrangement

 

FOLLOW THIS LINK for photos of all the house museums and privately owned houses that are included in the tour program.

 

For the latest information on the program, please consult our website: www.iconichouses.org. 

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