Movement
Structuralism (Architecture)
Explore in the Atlas →A Dutch movement of the 1960s emerging from Team 10, led by Aldo van Eyck and Herman Hertzberger, that rejected functionalist monotony in favour of humane, configurative built form fostering social encounter, as in van Eyck's Amsterdam Orphanage.
Collectivity Dwelling
Details
- Origin
- Netherlands
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- ReasonLived experience
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Referenced by
- Brutalism influenced
Sources
- Arnulf Lüchinger. Structuralism in Architecture and Urban Planning. Karl Krämer Verlag, 1981.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Structuralism (Architecture)." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/structuralism-architecture/. Accessed July 17, 2026.