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Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Papaverhof Housing, The Hague,

It is difficult to say what is De Stijl architecture and what is not.  Its influence is both everywhere in The Netherlands and also there are few pure examples.  

  The Papaverhof Housing is a neighborhood of 128 middle-class semi-detached housing built between 1919 and 1922 in Den Haag.  It was designed by J. Wils for a cooperative housing association.  Van Doesburg, the editor of De Stijl magazine,  lived in one of the houses in 1922.  There is a communal central garden park.

  Here is what the book "De Stijl in the Netherlands" says, in part:
"Like Robert van t'Hoff and J.J.P. Oud, the other two architects at the birth of De Stijl, Jan Wils was influenced by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright.  Papaverhof has often been compared, now without justification, to Wright's housing for employees of the Larkin Company in Chicago.  When the neighborhood was restored in 1989, all dwellings were given an outer coating of insulation and untreated stucco and the door and window frames regained their original colors." [blue and yellow]












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