Amsterdam School
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The Amsterdam School is a style of architecture that arose from 1910 through about 1930 in the Netherlands. The Amsterdam School movement is part of international Expressionist architecture, sometimes linked to German Brick Expressionism.
'Het Schip' apartment building in Amsterdam, 1917-20 (Michel de Klerk)
'Het Schip' apartment building, Zaanstraat
'De Dageraad' housing estate, P.L.Takstraat in Amsterdam, 1920-23 (Piet Kramer)
'De Bijenkorf' department store in The Hague, 1924-26 (Piet Kramer)
Expressionist architecture
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Expressionist architecture was an architectural movement in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century in parallel with the expressionist visual and performing arts that especially developed and dominated in Germany. Brick Expressionism is a special variant of this movement in western and northern Germany, as well as in the Netherlands.
Einstein Tower in Potsdam near Berlin, 1919–22 (Erich Mendelsohn)
Goetheanum in Dornach near Basel Switzerland, 1924–28 (Rudolf Steiner)
Dutch expressionism (Amsterdam School), Het Schip apartment building in Amsterdam, 1917–20 (Michel de Klerk)
Bruno Taut (1910)