Main entry:

Hoff, Robert van 't, 1887-1979.

Title & Author:

Robert van't Hoff : architect of a new society / Dolf Broekhuizen (editor) ; Evert van Straaten ; Herman van Bergeijk.

Publication:

Rotterdam : NAI, 2010.

Description:

167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo from Apr. 2-Aug. 29, 2010.
Translated from Dutch.
Includes texts by Robert van't Hoff.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / Dolf Broekhuizen -- Essays -- All or Nothing Robert van 't Hoff 's Battle for a Better Society / Dolf Broekhuizen -- Family Pictures -- Robert van 't Hoff's Study The Acquisition of an Unknown Work / Evert van Straaten -- Well-Known/Unknown Robert van 't Hoff and the International Critics / Herman van Bergeijk -- Work -- Design for the facade of a semidetached house, motto Toekomst?' -- Landhuis Løvdalla (formerly De Lindt) -- Farmstead De Zaaier -- Studio house for Augustus John -- Design for a house with museum for John Quinn -- Verloop Summer House -- Villa A.B. Henny, Huize Nora -- Houseboat De Stijl -- Chair for houseboat De Stijl -- Newel post -- Design of a studio house for Bart van der Leck -- Renovation De Ligt house -- Design for a townhouse -- Design for a house for four families -- Design for blocks of flats, mass construction designs -- House Robert van 't Hoff -- Cabinet and bed -- Settee -- House for H.J. van 't Hoff -- House Robert van 't Hoff -- Design for commune Àpril Farm' Co-operative Association -- William Thompson bookcase -- Retrospective in a box -- Design for a residential community in Coventry -- Design for Chapel, Bashley -- Study New Milton -- Texts -- Architecture and Its Development [part 1] -- Architecture and Its Development [part 2] -- Architecture and Its Development [part 3] -- Technical Notes Private House at Huis ter Heide -- Technical Notes Summer House at Huis ter Heide -- Hotel, Restaurant and Bar D̀e Dubbele Sleutel' -- Notes on Appendix XX -- Jaarbeurs voor Kunstnijverheid -- Letter from Rob. van 't Hoff -- Rectification: Van 't Hoff -- March 7 1931 -- Design for an Apartment Building -- abolition.

Summary:

Architect and architecture theorist Robert van 't Hoff (1887-1979) made a highly idiosyncratic contribution to Dutch architecture of the twentieth century. Van 't Hoff was associated with De Stijl, one of the most important innovative forces in Dutch art and architecture of the early twentieth century. His buildings, writings and, for example, his financial support of De Stijl meant he was a pivotal member of the Dutch avant-garde. Van 't Hoff was fairly extreme in his views about the role of the architect. For instance, as the projects architect, he personally stood on the scaffolding during the construction of his renowned Villa Henny, a "white-collar worker" shoulder to shoulder with the "manual workers", in order to realize the new society with its greater social equality and well-being in combination with less private ownership. Besides designing for a new society he drew the logical conclusions of such ideologies for how he pursued his own life. Van 't Hoff won international fame for the Villa Henny (1915-1919).

ISBN:

9789056627508
9056627503

Subject:

Hoff, Robert van 't, 1887-1979 Exhibitions.
Hoff, Robert van 't, 1887-1979 Expositions.
Hoff, Robert van 't, 1887-1979
Hoff, Robert van t' 1887-1979
De Stijl (Art movement)
Architects Netherlands.
De Stijl (Mouvement artistique)
Architectes Pays-Bas.
Architects
Netherlands

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
Catalogues raisonnés.
Writings.
Fiction
Exhibition catalogs
Romans.

Added entries:

Broekhuizen, Dolf (Adolf), 1965-
Straaten, Evert van (Everard Jozef)
Bergeijk, Herman van.
Broekhuizen, Dolf
Straaten, Evert van
Hoff, Robert van 't, 1887-1979
Kröller-Müller Museum

Holdings:

Location: Library main 268735
Call No.: NA44.H698.9 R6 2010
Status: Available