Laatste Kans Cornelis van Eesteren – Sandra Guarda

The celebrated Dutch architect and urban planner Cornelis van Eesteren is most famous for his work on the Amsterdam General Extension Plan (AUP), dating from 1934 and implemented after the Second World War, and for his role as the chairman of the International Congress for Modern Architecture (CIAM) from 1930 to 1947. He was a pioneer, and a highly influential figure of modernist urbanism.
During his less known ‘coming-of-age’ years in the 1920s, an exceptionally exciting period in the cultural history of t…