In the history of building, Hendrik Wijdeveld is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Hendrik Wijdeveld as Dutch architect and graphic designer (1885-1987).
Hendrik Wijdeveld was born at The Hague in 1885. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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, graphic designer and draftsperson.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
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.
Hendrik Wijdeveld died in 1987, aged 102. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
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