Hendrik Petrus Berlage
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Hendrik Petrus Berlage (21 February 1856 – 12 August 1934) was a well-known Dutch architect.
Life and work
Hendrik Petrus Berlage, the son of Nicolaas Willem Berlage and Anna Catharina Bosscha, was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on February 21, 1856. Johannes Bosscha, a scientist who taught in Polytechnic School te Delft, was Anna Catharina Bosscha's uncle.
Berlage studied architecture at the Zurich Institute of Technology between 1875 and 1878, after which he travelled extensively throughout Europe for three years. In the 1880s, he formed an association in the Netherlands with Theodore Sanders that resulted in a variety of practical and utopian designs. Berlage, a published author, was a member of many architectural organizations, including CIAM I.
Berlage was influenced by Henry Hobson Richardson's Neo-Romanesque brickwork design and the combination of iron columns found with the bricks of the Castle of Three Geckos of Domènech i Montaner's Domination Montaner's Three Geckos. In his architecture for the Amsterdam Commodities Exchange, this influence is apparent, as he would also borrow from Viollet-le-Duc's theories. The 'Hollandse Zakelijkheid''s constituent principles would include load-bearing brick walls and the belief in the primacy of space and wall building as the creators of form.
Berlage's visit to the United States in 1911 influenced his architecture greatly. Frank Lloyd Wright's organic architecture would have a major role from then on. Lectures he delivered on returning to Europe will help disseminate Wright's ideas in Germany.
The 1916 Holland House, which was built as the home of a Dutch shipping company in Bury Street in London, was a major overseas commission (behind Norman Foster's 2003 St Mary Axe).
Berlage's theories, which include the Traditionalists, the Amsterdam School, De Stijl, and the New Objectivists, were cited as the "Father of Modern Architecture" in the Netherlands and the intermediary between the Traditionalists and the Modernists, and the transition between the Traditionalists and the Modernists. In 1932, he received the British RIBA's Gold Medal.
Berlage died in The Hague on August 12, 1934. Hendrik Petrus Berlage, his son, who later became known as an astronomer in the Royal Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia), was immortalized as a lunar crater (Berlage).