Jaap Bakema Study Centre

3 October 2020 - 5 June 2021

Art on Display 1949-69

How do we present art? And how do we look at it, as museum visitors? Art on Display 1949-69 brings together some of the most progressive post-war exhibition designs by architects in the form of 1:1 reconstructions.

12 October 2019 - 1 March 2020

Animal Encounters

A spatial installation by Studio Ossidiana explores how architecture might mediate between all sorts of creatures, making room for a variety of encounters and setting the stage for interactions between humans and non-humans.

18 October 2018 - 9 March 2019

Habitat: Expanding Architecture

Habitat: Expanding Architecture captures a key moment in the history of architecture and urban planning: the tenth CIAM conference at Dubrovnik in 1956. Here the concept 'habitat' was a central theme: a broader understanding of architecture through a new ecological approach.

21 September 2014 - 10 January 2015

Structuralism

Dutch Structuralism is a movement in architecture in the late '50s and early '60s that renounced the technocratic planning that characterised the post-war reconstruction of the country. Instead, its proponents asked space for the poetic and emotional aspects of architecture, in order to come to a truly dignified living environment

6 June 2014 - 22 November 2014

Open: A Bakema Celebration

The Dutch entry at the 14th International Architectural Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia examines the work and ideas of the architect Jaap Bakema. Open: A Bakema Celebration critically reflects on the idea of the open society through Bakema's work and research.

27 June 2014 - 4 October 2014

Jaap and Sia Bakema: Habitat

Whereas the Dutch show at the 2014 Venice Biennale of Architecture highlighted the public facets of the architect Jaap Bakema (1914-1981), in Rotterdam the attention was turned towards the private life of Bakema and his creative collaboration with his wife and artist Sia Bakema (1919-2006).

Sonneveld House

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