{"id":9126,"date":"2025-01-04T06:33:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T11:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=9126"},"modified":"2025-01-04T07:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T12:04:18","slug":"kroller-muller-museum-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/kroller-muller-museum-the-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller Museum, The Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/vaneyck_1000px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/vaneyck_1000px.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/vaneyck_1000px-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/vaneyck_1000px-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/vaneyck_1000px-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Aldo van Eyck Pavilion, Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller Museum, The Netherlands \u2013 \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Aldo van Eyck pavilion at the far end of the Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller sculpture garden is well worth seeking out. It is actually a reconstruction of a temporary exhibition space for sculpture built in 1966. Van Eyck is not well-known in the United States, but his influence as an architect and theorist extends well beyond the Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I was walking around the pavilion I was struck by its similarity to Louis Kahn\u2019s bath house in Trenton, New Jersey. The cinder block material, the way in which the roof was suspended above the walls, and the juxtaposition of geometric forms, all reminded me of Kahn\u2019s temple of utilitarian changing rooms and showers. I photographed it some years ago before and after its restoration.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kbh0001_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kbh0001_lg.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kbh0001_lg-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kbh0001_lg-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kbh0001_lg-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Louis Kahn Bath House, Trenton, New Jersey \u2013 \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out that the two architects met here at the Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller in 1959. Robert McCarter, architect and professor writes in a 2018 essay: \u201cThe paths of these two architects &#8211; the Second-Generation modernist Kahn, then 58 years old, and the Third-Generation modernist Van Eyck, then 40 years old &#8211; parallel in so astonishingly many ways, crossed here for the first time, deeply affecting them both at a time of critical transition in their respective practices and thought.\u201d<br \/><br \/>https:\/\/krollermuller.nl\/en\/aldo-van-eyck-aldo-van-eyck-pavilion<br \/>https:\/\/dialnet.unirioja.es\/descarga\/articulo\/6865075.pdf (PDF)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aldo van Eyck pavilion at the far end of the Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller sculpture garden is well worth seeking out. It is actually a reconstruction of a temporary exhibition space for sculpture built in 1966. 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