Meet Aldo Van Eyck

Aldo van Eyck is a Dutch architect born on the 16th of March 1918.

He was the son of the poet Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck and grew up in Golders Green in London. He then graduated from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, where he met his wife Hannie van Roojen, who is also an architect.

In 1949, Van Eyck was asked by Willem Sandberg to organize the Cobra exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In 1951, he started an architectural firm, and a year later, together with Constant Nieuwenhuijs, he designed a space for the exhibition 'Man and House' of 1952-1953 in the Stedelijk Museum. Then, from 1971 to 1982 he worked with architect Theo Bosch, and from 1982 until his death together with his wife under the name A. & H. van Eyck. The agency was subsequently continued by Hannie van Eyck.

Van Eyck was also an extraordinary professor at Delft University of Technology from 1966 to 1976; he sat on the editorial board of the Forum magazine from 1959 to 1963; and, in 1953, he was one of the founders of "Team 10".

He still is one of the first and most influential representatives of structuralism.

Aldo van Eyck died in 1999 at the age of eighty.