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How a bright concept was lost

OTYPE=R : roostercompleet.txt : 00077 | The author describes the way in which the clear urban design concept of Van Tijen and Van Embden was lost, partly due to the intervention of Blom's radical vision. Van Tijen and Van Embden sought precisely to stimulate the architectural debate, which was taking place in the Dutch architectural world around 1960, on the Campus. The discussion between the followers of Het Nieuwe Bouwen (Van Tijen) and the Forum generation was provoked by inviting the "angry young men" P.Blom, H. Haan and J. van Stigt (p. 40). About Haan, the author says: "First, Herman Haan was invited to design a complex for student housing. This became the patio complex, now considered one of the finest examples of structuralist architecture in the Netherlands. After this he made an intimate housing complex for girls..."

How a bright concept was lost

OTYPE=R : roostercompleet.txt : 00077 | The author describes the way in which the clear urban design concept of Van Tijen and Van Embden was lost, partly due to the intervention of Blom's radical vision. Van Tijen and Van Embden sought precisely to stimulate the architectural debate, which was taking place in the Dutch architectural world around 1960, on the Campus. The discussion between the followers of Het Nieuwe Bouwen (Van Tijen) and the Forum generation was provoked by inviting the "angry young men" P.Blom, H. Haan and J. van Stigt (p. 40). About Haan, the author says: "First, Herman Haan was invited to design a complex for student housing. This became the patio complex, now considered one of the finest examples of structuralist architecture in the Netherlands. After this he made an intimate housing complex for girls..."