| Online Conference: Pioneers of the Dutch Modern House |
Meet the experts and book your ticket now!
In the run-up to September's Iconic Houses online event, Pioneers of the Dutch Modern House, we introduce leading authorities on architecture in the Netherlands. For the conference, they will present the video series about the Dutch reinvention of the house in the 20th century. These films will complement the live streamed keynote lectures on the same themes.
The thematic videos feature 20 Iconic Houses in the Netherlands. The modules can be joined live online by all architecture lovers, owners of modern homes, architects, preservationists and house museum professionals on the five Thursdays in September: 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 September. Later, the package of recorded lectures together with the videos can be purchased through our webshop to watch on demand.
The benefit of bringing our conference online is that we can visit more houses now than we could have covered physically – 20 in total, spread all over the Netherlands! Also, it’s much easier to attend – the modules are never longer than 90 minutes, and with one a week you can plan your schedule around them. You can also watch modules later, at a time that suits you. Finally, of course, it costs far less to take part because there are no physical tours and no travel and accommodation costs.
CHECK OUT THE FULL PROGRAMME HERE
Register HERE
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| | Home as Self-Portrait: Architect's Houses | Natascha Drabbe is the founder and executive director of the Iconic Houses network. She is the Conference Chair of the 2021 online conference Pioneers of the Dutch Modern House and presents the thematic video about four Dutch houses that architects and an artists couple designed for themselves, putting their theories into practice down to the smallest detail.
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| | Hygiene and Health in the Modern Home | Hetty Berens, an architectural historian and curator, is responsible for the Sonneveld House in Rotterdam. She is also a board member of Iconic Houses and Co-Chair of the upcoming conference. In her video, she'll talk about how improved hygiene made healthier homes, not only in Sonneveld House but also in designs by J.J.P. Oud, Gerrit Rietveld and others.
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| | Palaces for the People | Valentijn Carbo is an architectural historian at the Hendrick de Keyser Association, the leading private trust for the preservation of historic houses in the Netherlands. In the video on social housing, he presents five significant housing projects from the iconic Museum Het Schip. He highlights the differences and similarities in projects by Jan Wils, Cornelis van Eesteren, Lotte Stam-Beese and Gerrit Rietveld.
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| | A Woman’s Place: Clients & Architects | As curator at the Centraal Museum Utrecht, Natalie Dubois is responsible for three Rietveld houses. The video she is presenting is about the influence that women had on three specific iconic houses: architect Lotte Stam-Beese who designed the Karwijhof complex, Hélène Kröller-Müller, who commissioned Berlage for her country residence, and Truus Schröder-Schräder, co-designer of the Rietveld Schröder House.
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| | Experiments with Space | Robert von der Nahmer is an architect and the owner of the Diagoon House in Delft, an experimental home by Herman Hertzberger (and Iconic Houses member). The theme of his episode is the search for architectural and visual ways to guide and intensify our experience of space and time, and experiments involving these. It's about what we call 'wooncultuur' in Dutch – the culture of living in our homes.
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