Dirk Roosenburg belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Dirk Roosenburg as Dutch architect (1887–1962).
Dirk Roosenburg was born at The Hague in 1887. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of the Netherlands. He trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris and Delft University of Technology.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect, furniture designer and goldsmith.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Kingdom of the Netherlands shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Dirk Roosenburg died in 1962, aged 75. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris and Delft University of Technology
