Van Eesterenmuseum Amsterdam

An exhibit about the famous urban designer Cornelis van Eesteren (1897-1988), one of the authors of the new areas of Amsterdam built after the World War II on the outskirts of the city. Son of a building contractor and a city official in Ablasserdam in South Holland, Van Eesteren became himself an architect, won several prizes for his designs, was a colleague of world pioneers of modern urbanism as Le Corbusier and van Doesburg and a member of the Dutch De Stijl group. Van Eesteren was one of the architects instrumental in the creation of The Athens Charter - the document written by the Swiss architecture genius Le Corbusier in 1933 and proclaimed again in 1944, conveying ideas of modern urban planning.