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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlandsen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1917-1921 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorKlerk, Michel deen_US
dc.date1917-1921en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-17T20:12:50Z
dc.date.available2014-12-17T20:12:50Z
dc.date.issued1917-1921en_US
dc.identifier251974en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 3057en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/167531
dc.descriptionWest elevation of post office where it meets the taller housing block; play on Dutch gambrel roof (gable end at the right); This five-storey building with 102 dwellings, a post office (2 storeys), a meeting hall for residents and the annexed school is the best example of what was termed a "worker's palace" in Amsterdam. There are 18 different floor plans for the units. In 1917 the housing association Eigen Haard commissioned de Klerk again for a block in the Spaarndammerbuurt neighborhood. A few years earlier a school had been built near the triangular site on Oostzannstraat and de Klerk was required to include it in the plan. At the apex of the triangle is the post office, resembling a huge piece of sculpture. De Klerk also designed the interior of the post office; the counters, seats and even telephone booth. At the center of the triangular block are private gardens and the school playground. It is not by chance that all the formal comparisons for the building, ranging from ship to locomotive, suggest, together with associations with movement and power, an organic entity with identifiable components. Today the Museum Het Schip is housed in the post office, with an extension in the school. Source: Casciato, Maristella, ed.; The Amsterdam School, Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1996 (9064502463) (accessed 6/10/2014)en_US
dc.format.mediumred and purple brick; black clay roof tiles; wooden_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectCity planningen_US
dc.subjectsocial housingen_US
dc.subjectpublic housingen_US
dc.subjectBrick Expressionismen_US
dc.subjectAmsterdam schoolen_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.subjectExpressionisten_US
dc.titleHet Schipen_US
dc.title.alternativeThe Shipen_US
dc.title.alternativeHousing block with post office for Eigen Haarden_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-MDK-TS-C14en_US
vra.culturalContextDutchen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypehousing projecten_US
vra.worktypeapartment houseen_US
vra.worktypepost officeen_US
dc.contributor.displayMichel de Klerk (Dutch architect, 1884-1923)en_US


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