J.J.P. Oud was a famed modern architect; his European
contemporaries are Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies
van der Rohe. In Leiden in 1917, Oud, with the Dutch artist Theo
van Doesburg and the expatriate Hungarian Vilmos Huszar, and fellow
Hollanders Jan Wils and Bart van der Leck formed a collaboration
between artists and architects a movement they called "De Stijl."
The loose knit group slowly disintegrated, but in terms of
architectural style the movement sought a unity between art and
society that flirted with Constructivism, developed theories of
Neoplasticism, and what Oud called Cubism. Although these
intellectualized theories seldom resulted in architectural
realities, the realized projects were spectacular and they include
Oud's director's hut at the Oud-Mathenesse housing development,
1923, and the facade of the Cafe De Unie, Rotterdam, 1925. This
annotated bibliography documents not only the literature on Oud but
also Oud's own writings. A biographical essay, this book examines
the place afforded Oud in the international literature of
architecture and traces his career which spanned fifty-seven
years.
Architectural students and scholars will benefit from this guide
to the major archives, minor collections, and listing of Oud's
projects and the books in his own professional library.
Bibliographic entries are alphabetically arranged, by books and
monographs and by journals, within chronological divisions. Entries
are cross-referenced to a works list and index.
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