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Lotte Stam-Beese. Van 'Entwurfsarchitektin' tot stedenbouwkundig architecte ; Lotte Stam-Beese (1903-1988) : from 'Entwurfsarchitektin' to urban-planning architect
The Silesian-born urban-planning architect Lotte Stam-Beese became famous not only in the Netherlands, but also in CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne) circles, for her designs for modern post-war housing districts in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. The path she travelled to get there was a fascinating one, and shows how the course of her life was determined by her training, work, love affairs and relationships during the 1920s and 1930s. This article takes a closer look at her career, with special emphasis on her work at Bohuslav Fuchs’s architectural firm in Brno from 1930 to 1932 and her other activities in Czechoslovakia. It will attempt to show how this period and these circumstances helped shape her personal development and the choices she made in her life. This paper is based on various sources consulted in archives in the Czech Republic, Germany, Ukraine, the United States and the Netherlands, as well as literature research. Lotte Beese – her maiden name – grew up in the countryside near what was then the German city of Breslau (now Wrocław in Poland) in a lower-middle-class Protestant family. In those days few girls from such a background received a secondary education. After doing several minor jobs, she persuaded her parents that a course at the Bauhaus in Dessau was the right choice for her. When she began studying there in the 1926-1927 academic year she was already 23, making her one of the older students. In 1928 the Swiss architect Hannes Meyer had been asked to set up an architecture course at the Bauhaus, entitled die neue baulehre (‘the new way of building’). Inspired by Functionalist design and Marxist thinking, Meyer saw architecture and building as an elementary process, in which people’s biological, mental and physical needs were crucial to the design of housing, and hence of living. Lotte Beese was keen to take the new architecture course. Meyer, who not only set up the course but a year later also succeeded Gropius as director of the Bauhaus, was less prejudiced than his ...
Lotte Stam-Beese. Van 'Entwurfsarchitektin' tot stedenbouwkundig architecte ; Lotte Stam-Beese (1903-1988) : from 'Entwurfsarchitektin' to urban-planning architect
The Silesian-born urban-planning architect Lotte Stam-Beese became famous not only in the Netherlands, but also in CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne) circles, for her designs for modern post-war housing districts in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. The path she travelled to get there was a fascinating one, and shows how the course of her life was determined by her training, work, love affairs and relationships during the 1920s and 1930s. This article takes a closer look at her career, with special emphasis on her work at Bohuslav Fuchs’s architectural firm in Brno from 1930 to 1932 and her other activities in Czechoslovakia. It will attempt to show how this period and these circumstances helped shape her personal development and the choices she made in her life. This paper is based on various sources consulted in archives in the Czech Republic, Germany, Ukraine, the United States and the Netherlands, as well as literature research. Lotte Beese – her maiden name – grew up in the countryside near what was then the German city of Breslau (now Wrocław in Poland) in a lower-middle-class Protestant family. In those days few girls from such a background received a secondary education. After doing several minor jobs, she persuaded her parents that a course at the Bauhaus in Dessau was the right choice for her. When she began studying there in the 1926-1927 academic year she was already 23, making her one of the older students. In 1928 the Swiss architect Hannes Meyer had been asked to set up an architecture course at the Bauhaus, entitled die neue baulehre (‘the new way of building’). Inspired by Functionalist design and Marxist thinking, Meyer saw architecture and building as an elementary process, in which people’s biological, mental and physical needs were crucial to the design of housing, and hence of living. Lotte Beese was keen to take the new architecture course. Meyer, who not only set up the course but a year later also succeeded Gropius as director of the Bauhaus, was less prejudiced than his ...
Lotte Stam-Beese. Van 'Entwurfsarchitektin' tot stedenbouwkundig architecte ; Lotte Stam-Beese (1903-1988) : from 'Entwurfsarchitektin' to urban-planning architect
Oosterhof, J. (Autor:in)
01.05.2017
Oosterhof , J 2017 , ' Lotte Stam-Beese (1903-1988) : from 'Entwurfsarchitektin' to urban-planning architect ' , Architektúra & Urbanizmus , vol. 51 , no. 1-2 , pp. 94-105 .
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Lotte Stam-Beese: 'een persoon met een dergelijke kwaliteit'
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