![]() ![]() Van Gool was sceptical of what was sometimes described as this 'soft' architectural culture and concerned that the social dimension of the subject was taking priority over the professional business of design.10 In his own work there is a lightness and optimism about the Het Breed housing in Amsterdam (1966) with its curving precast balconies, but his reputation for toughness is more evident in the paired - but not quite identical - six-storey office blocks at Wetteringschans in Amsterdam these were completed in 1979 to cries that they were Amsterdam's ugliest architecture. ![]() Van Gool, who had worked on the Lijnbaan centre, left the practice in 1959, the year Bakema, Herzberger, Aldo van Eyck and others became editors of the journal Forum and began to promote 'another idea', one redressing what they saw as architecture's technocratic bias in favour of a close relationship between an individual and his or her environment. Van den Broek occupies a special position in any consideration of Dutch Rationalism, not only because of his work during the period of reconstruction, but also because of two architects of the next generation who worked in his office (a partnership with Bakema after 1951): Frans van Gool and Jan Hoogstad. ![]()
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