Thursday, 9 September, 2021

Module 2 - Palaces for the People 

Lecture and video together will approximately take 1,5 hour.

09:00 – 10:30 a.m. PDT/LA 
12:00 – 01:30 p.m. EDT/NY
06:00 – 07:30 p.m. CEST/Europe

Keynote Address: Valentijn Carbo

Valentijn Carbo is an architectural historian at the leading private trust for the preservation of historic houses in the Netherlands, the Hendrick de Keyser Association. He currently runs their ‘Museum Houses’ project. After his graduation at Utrecht University, Valentijn joined Museum Van Loon in Amsterdam as a curator. He currently runs their project ‘Museum Houses’. This ambitious project is opening and displaying 35 of the association’s most important houses. 
His role has been both practical and conceptual in setting up the project. Valentijn is a board member of the Dutch Interior Foundation and participates in the interior platform of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands.

 

Thematic Video - Palaces for the People 

Expert presenter: Valentijn Carbo

Valentijn Carbo is an Architectural Historian at Hendrick de Keyser Association. Valentijn Carbo will tell in the Model Home of Museum Het Schip what building for the masses in the 1920s and 50s looked like. He connects them either by their differences or similarities. Houses featured in this video are:

- Museum Het Schip Model Home and slum house, Michel de Klerk, Piet Kramer, 1921                                                                      - Museum De Dageraad, Michel de Klerk, 1923
- De Papaverhof, Jan Wils, 1921
- Van Eesteren House Museum, Nielsen Spruit & Van de Kuile, 1952                                          - - Museum House Polman, architect Lotte Stam-Beese, 1956
- Robijnhof Model Home, Gerrit Rietveld, 1958

 

Interviews with our speakers and experts can be found on our website: www.iconichouses.org.

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