Aldo van Eyck
Seventeen Playgrounds Amsterdam
concept, text and photography Anna Van Lingen and Denisa Kollarova

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Author(s)

Anna Van Lingen, Denisa Kollarova

Editor(s)

Anna Van Lingen, Denisa Kollarova

Publication, year

Eindhoven : Uitgeverij Lecturis, 2016

Scope

96 Pages, illustrated, 16 cm.

ISBN

9789462261570

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With his distinctive playground designs, Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck has left his mark on generations of children in Amsterdam. Over the years, he created a network of more than 700 playgrounds throughout the city, their minimalistic design intended to stimulate imagination and curiosity. Today, only a handful of these are still intact, the others having been removed or transformed to share space with brightly coloured slides and swings. This special publication revisits the seventeen remaining playgrounds in Amsterdam’s centre created by Van Eyck, including that of the Rijksmuseum. Play / spelen / playgrounds

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Person as subject

Aldo van Eyck

Location

Cabinet 16 - 2: Architecten

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;