Amsterdam School buildings

Map of 6 locations in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Between about 1910 and 1930, Amsterdam's housing associations and municipal building service handed their commissions to a group of architects who worked almost entirely in brick and wrought iron: curved facades, ladder windows, towers on corners that carry nothing. Most of what they built was subsidised workers' housing, which is why so much of it is still ordinary residential property with tenants behind the windows, and why only two of these buildings have a front desk. The rest are a school, a church, a community hall and a stadium, all still doing the job they were built for.

Places in this collection

  • Olympisch Stadion — Jan Wils designed the stadium for the 1928 Summer Olympics, and it is the one piece of Amsterdam School work built to be seen by the world…
  • 't Zonnehuis — J.H. Mulder built this as the community hall of Tuindorp Oostzaan in 1932, the social centre of a garden village of municipal housing north…
  • Willem de Zwijgerkerk — C. Kruyswijk's church of 1931 sits on Olympiaweg a short walk from the Olympic Stadium, and at 36 metres its tower is one of the taller Ams…
  • Het Sieraad — Built as the city's Vierde Ambachtsschool, the fourth trade school, to a design by A.J. Westerman, with the Kostverlorenvaart on two sides…
  • Museum De Dageraad — Michel de Klerk and Piet Kramer designed these dwellings for the socialist housing association De Dageraad, built with municipal subsidy an…
  • Museum Het Schip — Michel de Klerk designed this block for the housing association Eigen Haard between 1917 and 1920, with a post office and a tenants' meetin…

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