Th.J. Lammers (1890-1972) Th.J. Lammers has an extensive body of work to his name and as an Amsterdam architect he meant a great deal to the city. From the limited information available about him, Lammers emerges as a modest and amiable man, with a great love for his profession. This image is confirmed by the multifaceted and impressive nature of his oeuvre. The homes, stores, offices and schools he designed can be found all over Amsterdam and in a few places outside. Lammers started his education at the Quellinusschool in Amsterdam, where he entered the world of architecture together with J.J.P. Oud. The Quellinusschool was a practical workshop, which carried out commissions for restoration sculpture and ornament work for buildings and churches.He then attended the "Rijks Normaalschool voor Teekenonderwijzers," where his teachers included Willem Kromhout. However, Lammers reverses his decision to become a teacher and goes to the Städtische polytechnische Lehranstalt in Friedberg (Hesse, Germany), Department of Architectur-Hochbau, for further studies. Upon returning to the Netherlands, he goes to work at the architectural firm of G. van Arkel and then at the firm of the Baanders brothers, where De Klerk and Blaauw are also employed. At the office of Warners he collaborates on the plans for a storey house, presumably for the project 'Lorna' (1914) on the Lairessestraat in Amsterdam. As an independent architect, he receives his first commission in 1913. For the first decade he worked together with architect Th. Groenendijk. Together they designed a large number of houses and villas in and around Willemspark in Amsterdam South. Their first commission was a villa at Prins Hendriklaan 1 in Amsterdam. During the interwar period, Lammers was involved in the construction of houses in H.P. Berlage's Uitbreidingsplan Zuid (Stadionbuurt and Rivierenbuurt), the main structure of which had been adopted by the city council in 1917. Lammers' architecture, along with that of some forty architects, represented the Second period of the Amsterdam School, the period that dawned after the death of Michel de Klerk, "the creative brain of the Amsterdam School. More commissions soon followed, ranging from homes to school and office buildings. Among other things, he built the Physiological Laboratory for the Free University on Valeriusplein in Amsterdam (1916-1917) and the modern hotel 'Seinpost' (1920) in the seaside resort of Zandvoort, where mass tourism was beginning to emerge. In Bergen he realizes the School building for primary education and extended primary education for the 'Berger Schoolvereeniging' on the Rondelaan (1925) in the style of the Amsterdam School and the boarding house 'De Hertenkamp' on the Van Reenenpark (1926). Lammers also participated in public housing construction, including in the Rivierenbuurt in Amsterdam, where he realized several housing complexes between 1923 and 1937. After World War II, Lammers designed housing complexes in Tuinstad Slotermeer in the typical post-war style, preserving his meticulous detailing. East of Plein '40-'45 is a complex on S. Kuiperplantsoen, A. Bontekoeplantsoen and J. Schippersplantsoen. On Slauerhoffstraat stands a block of porch apartments he designed. In the same period he designed a complex of "single-family houses for socially unadjusted families" on the C. Outshoornstraat in Tuinstad Geuzenveld. By his hand are also known projects in Zandvoort, Bergen NH and in Haarlem. His last assignment was an extensive housing project in Amsterdam-Buitenveldert (Nederstigt e.o., 1962-1963). This project he did in collaboration with architect J.A. Riesener. Education: Quellinusschool//Amsterdam;Städtische Polytechnische Lehranstalt//Friedberg