Pieter Lodewijk (Piet) Kramer (Amsterdam, 1 July 1881 – Santpoort, 4 February 1961) was a Dutch architect, one of the most important architects of the Amsterdam School (Expressionist architecture).
From 1903 to 1911 Piet Kramer worked in the architectural practice of Eduard Cuypers, where he came into contact with the architects Johan van der Mey and Michel de Klerk. In 1911 van der Mey received the commission to design the Scheepvaarthuis (Shipping House), a cooperative building for six Dutch shipping companies. Van der Mey sought the assistance of his former colleague-architects Piet Kramer and Michel de Klerk to realize this building. The Scheepvaarthuis (1913–1916) is considered the starting point of the Amsterdam School movement. Later Piet Kramer collaborated with Michel de Klerk on the well-known De Dageraad housing project in Amsterdam South (1919–1923). Outside Amsterdam he built one of his masterpieces, the De Bijenkorf Store in The Hague (1924–1926). After the death of Michel de Klerk in 1923, Piet Kramer was the leading architect of the Amsterdam School until the end of this movement in the beginning of the 1930s.
In the years of economic crisis of the 1930s the expensive architecture of the Amsterdam School was passé. A new architecture and town planning was in process of development in Amsterdam, represented by CIAM-Rationalists like Cornelis van Eesteren and Ben Merkelbach. In the new architecture the principle of spatial corridors between functionalistic blocks was relevant. On the contrary, the Amsterdam School town planning was based on a town structure with streets and places.
De Bijenkorf Store The Hague (1924–1926)
In the second half of his professional life, the main job of Piet Kramer was architect for canal bridges in the municipal public works department in Amsterdam (Gemeentelijke Dienst Publieke Werken). He made the drawings for more than 500 bridges. The total number of realized Piet Kramer bridges is 220, 64 of them in the Amsterdamse Bos park. Besides the bridges he often designed the additional bridge houses, ironwork and landscaping. The sculptural work was generally done by Hildo Krop.
After the death of Piet Kramer in 1961, on the high point of the Rationalist movement, no architectural institution or museum was interested in his Expressionist work. For that reason all his drawings and models were burnt.
Pieter Lodewijk (Piet) Kramer (Amsterdam, 1 July 1881 – Santpoort, 4 February 1961) was a Dutch architect, one of the most important architects of the...
example for architects (published in Forum 9/1960-61). After the death of PietKramer in 1961, no architectural institution or museum was interested in his...
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technology began in 1969 with efforts by Dutch physicists Klaas Compaan and PietKramer to record video images in holographic form on disc. Their prototype Laserdisc...
de Klerk and PietKramer (1920–1923). The architectural contribution by Michel de Klerk is shown in this article. See also PietKramer. Situation plan...
hospital, a large housing association designed by Michel de Klerk and PietKramer called "De Dageraad" (The Dawn) housing complex was built. It was opened...
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architecture should take. Expressionist architects like Michel de Klerk and PietKramer were associated with the Amsterdam School, a modern movement that emphasized...
the Dageraad (‘Dawn’) complex. It was designed by Michel de Klerk and PietKramer for a socialist housing association. It includes buildings at the Pieter...
beside it. In 1926, a second store was built in The Hague, designed by PietKramer, a notable example of Amsterdam School architecture. A third store opened...
because the leaders of this style, Michel de Klerk, Johan van der Mey, and PietKramer, were trained there. Berend Tobia Boeyinga, one of the most important...
Johan van der Mey. The Amsterdam School architects Michel de Klerk and PietKramer also contributed. The design has been described as still holding "the...
the assistance of his former colleague-architects Michel de Klerk and PietKramer, and the architect Adolf Daniël Nicolaas van Gendt was responsible for...
the Scheepvaarthuis by Amsterdam School architects Johan van der Mey, PietKramer and Michel de Klerk are his. After this building, Krop received appointment...
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and engineering, in the building of public works. Initially architect PietKramer, one of the most prominent members of the Amsterdam School, was under...
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in his office considerable autonomy and Boeyinga, Johan van der Mey, PietKramer and Michel de Klerk, all of whom were more experimental than Cuypers...
Passeerdersdwarsstraat, was designed around 1915 by architects Joan van der Mey and PietKramer. Until the summer of 2012 this monumental building housed one of the...
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literature portal Pieter "Piet" Jongeling (31 March 1909 in Broeksterwâld - 26 August 1985 in Amersfoort), also known by the pen name Piet Prins, was a Dutch...
improvements can be found in bridge 307, the result of a collaboration with PietKramer. Double wooden drawbridge established by Jacob Olie in 1891 Daylight...
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