Michel Hendrik Hamers was born on February 7, 1891 in Amsterdam. At 18, he entered the service for two years after which, in 1911, he began his studies, presumably at the Quellinus hogeschool in Amsterdam (the Art and Drawing School). It is likely that this is where Hamers came into contact with Ed. Cuypers, as the latter offered him a job in the Dutch East Indies at some point. In 1919, Hamers married in Amsterdam and in 1920 the couple moved to Batavia for three years, where Hamers went to work at the architectural firm Hulswit, Fermont & Cuypers. Back in Amsterdam from 1926-1928, Hamers worked as superintendent under architect J.W. Hanrath on the conversion of the Military Hospital in Amsterdam into the Anthoni van Leeuwenhoek House. Around 1930, Hamers worked with a partner on a project for Nationale Nederlanden Vastgoed. He designed a series of semi-detached villas along the east side of the rijksstraatweg from Amsterdam to Amersfoort. Around 1940, Hamers, without a partner, had started building a police station in Velsen. Despite many of the building materials being stolen, Hamers was forced by the Germans to build the station anyway. In 1950, Hamers left for Aruba with his wife. Here he was involved in the construction of the first modern hotel on St. Maarten and in 1957 in the construction of a (Van der Valk) hotel at the Waterfort in Willemstad, Curaçao. After completion, Hamers went back to the Netherlands. He died on March 30, 1961.