Michel de Klerk belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Michel de Klerk as Dutch architect (1884-1923).
Michel de Klerk was born in 1884. 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, postage stamp designer and designer.
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.
Michel de Klerk died in 1923, aged 39. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
