Piet Blom

Piet (Pieter) Bailey (Amsterdam, 8 February 1934 – Denmark, June 8, 1999) was a Dutch architect. Bailey, son of a greengrocer, graduated in 1959 on the AmsterdamAcademy of architecture as a student of Aldo van Eyck.

The architect is best known for the Bastille of the University of Twente Enschede 1964-1969, the Kasbah in Hengelo (1969-1973) and his cube houses and Theater 't play house in Helmond (1972-1976)[1]  and Rotterdam (1978-1984) and the closed city (1993) in the district kattenbroek in Amersfoort. In all these cases, these are houses and on columns; This creates space underneath for shops and other common facilities.

Partly because Bailey clung to his principles, in the 1980s were not particularly many buildings of its hand-built. He got a few commands In the 1990s, including some houses and a villa in Amersfoort.

His son, Abel Blom, is also for many years at the Office of van Eyck worked. Along with Aldo van Eyck and Herman Hertzberger Piet Blom belongs to the internationally renowned representatives of the structuralism. ==Literature[ Edit] == Hall, Seerp (1984). Piet Blom and the art of building /photos Ger van der Vlugt and others Academie Minerva press, Groningen. 68 p. ISBN 90-232-2086-2. Overview of his work, on the occasion of the official opening of the new building of the Academy of fine arts in Groningen