In the history of building, Luzia Hartsuyker-Curjel is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Luzia Hartsuyker-Curjel as Dutch architect and urban planner (1926–2011).
Luzia Hartsuyker-Curjel was born at Karlsruhe in 1926. Her recorded nationality is Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
She is recorded as architect and urban planner.
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.
Luzia Hartsuyker-Curjel died in 2011, aged 85. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
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