Bakema in Nagele: Empty polders and stark details

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Abstract

In the staged footage of meetings, the designers led by Cornelis van Eesteren and Ben Merkelbach are shown busily debating, seated at a table covered with drawings, models, coffee cups and full ashtrays. The walls of the room are hung with drawings and sketches of the virtually endless series of variants of the village layout. Jaap Bake ma is prominently shown, seated at the centre of the table, although, like the other designers, he is not referred to by name. In another scene, recorded in his own studio, Aldo van Eyck, again not referred to by name, explains the underlying ideas of the village layout. Subsequent clips go on to show Bakema and the other designers, at meeting and drawing tables, instructing their employees in the working out of the building plans. […]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationJaap Bakema and the Open Society
EditorsDirk van den Heuvel
Place of PublicationAmsterdam
PublisherArchis
Pages200-207
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)978-90-7796-657-0
Publication statusPublished - 2018

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