Amsterdam's Seventeen Playgrounds: Aldo van Eyck's Neglected Legacy
The Dutch Structuralist architect Aldo van Eyck left his mark in Amsterdam ? not only in the form of buildings but also, perhaps surprisingly, in the form of urban playgrounds. Over the course of his career he created a network of more than 700 playgrounds throughout the capital. Today, only a handful of these remain intact. A special publication, compiled by Denisa Kollarova and Anna van Lingen, revisits the seventeen remaining Van Eyck playgrounds in Amsterdam?s city centre. The following extract from the book seeks to introduce the project, and describe its urgency.
© Seventeen Playgrounds
The Dutch Structuralist architect Aldo van Eyck left his mark in Amsterdam ? not only in the form of buildings but also, perhaps surprisingly, in the form of urban playgrounds. Over the course of his career he created a network of more than 700 playgrounds throughout the capital. Today, only a handful of these remain intact. A special publication, compiled by Denisa Kollarova and Anna van Lingen, revisits the seventeen remaining Van Eyck playgrounds in Amsterdam?s city centre. The following extract from the book seeks to introduce the project, and describe its urgency.We live in an era in which there are not many carefully constructed playgrounds. We don?t like what we see. Have we?city decision makers, architects, designers, parents, friends ?forgotten to be critical"There are so many architects, artists and thinkers of the past who have proven that a...
© Seventeen Playgrounds
The Dutch Structuralist architect Aldo van Eyck left his mark in Amsterdam ? not only in the form of buildings but also, perhaps surprisingly, in the form of urban playgrounds. Over the course of his career he created a network of more than 700 playgrounds throughout the capital. Today, only a handful of these remain intact. A special publication, compiled by Denisa Kollarova and Anna van Lingen, revisits the seventeen remaining Van Eyck playgrounds in Amsterdam?s city centre. The following extract from the book seeks to introduce the project, and describe its urgency.We live in an era in which there are not many carefully constructed playgrounds. We don?t like what we see. Have we?city decision makers, architects, designers, parents, friends ?forgotten to be critical"There are so many architects, artists and thinkers of the past who have proven that a...
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