Film and Conference Modules
Pioneers of the Dutch Modern House
This program consists of five modules, each with a keynote lecture and an episode of a series of thematic videos in which twenty iconic houses across the Netherlands are featured: from the Amsterdam School and De Stijl to Postmodernism; from Gerrit Rietveld to Mart van Schijndel and many others. We also offer the five thematic videos as one film of an hour. The film also presents famous examples of social housing, an area in which The Netherlands was particularly rich in the 20th-century.
Module 2
Palaces for the People
Video on demand.
Lecture: English. Video: Dutch spoken and English subtitles.
Keynote address by Valentijn Carbo and video presented by Valentijn Carbo.
Palaces for the People
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 the 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.
In his lecture, Valentijn explores social housing in The Netherlands, and the impact of the 'Woningwet' ('Housing Act') of 1901.
Valentijn Carbo also presents the thematic video. In the Model Home of Museum Het Schip he explains what building for the masses in the 1920s and 50s looked like and connects the projects either by their differences or similarities.
Houses featured in this episode are:
Model Home in Museum Het Schip, Michel de Klerk (and the slum dwelling), 1921
De Papaverhof, Jan Wils, 1921
Van Eesteren House Museum, Nielsen Spruit & Van de Kuile, 1952
Polman House,Lotte Stam-Beese and Ernest Groosman, 1956
Robijnhof Model Home, Gerrit Rietveld, 1958