Van den Broek & Bakema: Vigorous protagonists of a functionalist architecture at the TH Delft

Evelien van Es studied architecture history at the Free University of Amsterdam and is specialized in architecture and urban planning of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Her master thesis dealed with the reconstruction of the seaside resort of Scheveningen. After graduation Evelien worked as curator for the collection of the Netherlands Architecture Institute. In 2003 she started her own research office and worked for various clients including the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, municipalities and architecture offices. She wrote articles on a wide range of topics in the field of architecture and town planning, advises in the field of cultural heritage and is guest tutor at the Department of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology. Recent projects include research for and editing of the publication Atlas of the Functional City. CIAM and Comparative Analysis; a research project on urban renewal in Dutch cities during the 70’s and 80’s; and cultural historic analyses of several Rotterdam city quarters.

Carola Hein is Professor and Head, Chair History of Architecture and Urban Planning at TU Delft. She has published widely on topics in contemporary and historical architectural and urban planning — notably in Europe and Japan. Among other major grants, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to pursue research on The Global Architecture of Oil and an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship to investigate large-scale urban transformation in Hamburg in international context between 1842 and 2008. Her current research interests include transmission of architectural and urban ideas along international networks, focusing specifically on port cities and the global architecture of oil. She serves as Editor for the Americas for the journal Planning Perspectives and as Asia book review editor for the Journal of Urban History. Her books include: The Capital of Europe. Architecture and Urban Planning for the European Union (2004), The Routledge Handbook of Planning History (2018), Port Cities: Dynamic Landscapes and Global Networks (2011), Brussels: Perspectives on a European Capital (2007), European Brussels. Whose capital? Whose city? (2006), Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945 (2003), and Cities, Autonomy and Decentralisation in Japan. (2006), Hauptstadt Berlin 1957-58 (1991). She has also published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, books, and magazines.

Herman van Bergeijk is an architectural historian who studied in the Netherlands (Groningen) and Italy (Venice). After working abroad and teaching at many universities in the United States, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands he obtained his Ph.D. in 1995 with a study into the work of the architect and town planner W.M. Dudok. In 1997 he was appointed at the University of Technology in Delft. In 2003 he taught a year at the Bauhausuniversität in Weimar. Since 2004 he has been an Associate Professor in Architectural History in Delft. He has curated many exhibitions and published extensively on 17th and 20th Dutch and Italian architecture. Recent publications include: Het handschrift van de architect. Schetsen van Nicolaas Lansdorp en tijdgenoten (together with Michiel Riedijk)(2014), Aesthetic Economy. Objectivity in Dutch architecture (2014), and Jan Duiker, bouwkundig ingenieur (1890-1935). Van warm naar koud (2016). In the moment he is studying the more traditional architects in the 20th century, especially the work of A.J. Kropholler. He is an editor of the cultural magazine Eigenbouwer.