The photographs that follow were taken in Amsterdam at the housing project – De Dageraad (1918-1923), designed by the architects Piet Kramer and Michel de Klerk. Part of what is known as the Amsterdam School, they were influenced by the work of Hendrik Berlage, who embraced both modernist and traditional architecture in his work. In fact, De Dageraad is so successful because it creates a complex of housing units that at once feels comfortable and new. It combines a freewheeling shaping of space employing dynamic undulating walls and the familiar materials that have been part of Holland’s building fabric for centuries.
