Jaap Bakema Study Centre

Built Homecoming: The House of Aldo and Hannie Van Eyck. Photo: Petra van der Ree

12 September 2024 - 1 March 2025

Built Homecoming: The House of Aldo and Hannie Van Eyck

The house of architects Aldo and Hannie van Eyck in Loenen aan de Vecht is filled to the brim with the books, films, photographs, drawings and works of art that they collected over half a century. A modest part of this collection is now on display at the Re-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.

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.

Jaap and Sia Bakema: Habitat. Photo: Fred Ernst

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).

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