Jo van den Broek belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Jo van den Broek as Dutch architect (1898-1978).
Jo van den Broek was born at Rotterdam in 1898. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of the Netherlands. He trained at 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 and university teacher.
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.
Jo van den Broek died in 1978, aged 80. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Delft University of Technology
