Film and Conference Modules
Pioneers of the Dutch Modern House
This program consists of five modules, each with a keynote lecture and an episode of a series of thematic videos in which twenty iconic houses across the Netherlands are featured: from the Amsterdam School and De Stijl to Postmodernism; from Gerrit Rietveld to Mart van Schijndel and many others. We also offer the five thematic videos as one film of an hour. The film also presents famous examples of social housing, an area in which The Netherlands was particularly rich in the 20th-century.
Hygiene and Health in the Modern Home
Hetty Berens, an architectural historian and curator at Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam, is also responsible for the Sonneveld House in Rotterdam, which has been restored to its original 1930s glory. She is a board member of the Iconic Houses Foundation and Co-Chair of the 2021 conference. In this episode she explains how improved hygiene made healthier homes in The Netherlands.
Houses featured in this episode are:
- De Kiefhoek, J.J.P. Oud, 1930
- Erasmuslaan Model Home, Gerrit Rietveld, 1931
- Sonneveld House, Brinkman & Van der Vlugt, 1933
- Dijkstra House, Ben Merkelbach and Charles Karsten, 1934
- Kraayeveld House, now Chabot Museum, G.W. Baas, 1938