Jakoba Mulder is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Jakoba Mulder as Dutch architect and urban planner (1900–1988).
Jakoba Mulder was born at Breda in 1900. Her 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.
She is recorded as architect, urban planner and university teacher.
Her best-known building is Zonnehuis. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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.
Jakoba Mulder died in 1988, aged 88. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Zonnehuis
