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The Most Famous

ARCHITECTS from Netherlands

This page contains a list of the greatest Dutch Architects. The pantheon dataset contains 424 Architects, 15 of which were born in Netherlands. This makes Netherlands the birth place of the 10th most number of Architects behind Switzerland and Austria.

Top 10

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Dutch Architects of all time. This list of famous Dutch Architects is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Dutch Architects.

1. Rem Koolhaas (1944 - )

With an HPI of 66.17, Rem Koolhaas is the most famous Dutch Architect. His biography has been translated into 48 different languages on wikipedia.

Remment Lucas Koolhaas (Dutch pronunciation: [rɛm koːlɦaːs]; born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He is often cited as a representative of Deconstructivism and is the author of Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. He is seen by some as one of the significant architectural thinkers and urbanists of his generation, by others as a self-important iconoclast. In 2000, Rem Koolhaas won the Pritzker Prize. In 2008, Time put him in their top 100 of The World's Most Influential People. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2014.

2. Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527 - 1607)

With an HPI of 58.51, Hans Vredeman de Vries is the 2nd most famous Dutch Architect. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.

Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527 – c. 1607) was a Dutch Renaissance architect, painter, and engineer. Vredeman de Vries is known for his publication in 1583 on garden design and his books with many examples on ornaments (1565) and perspective (1604). The Vredeman de Vries family included a number of artists and musicians.

3. Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856 - 1934)

With an HPI of 57.25, Hendrik Petrus Berlage is the 3rd most famous Dutch Architect. His biography has been translated into 28 different languages.

Hendrik Petrus Berlage (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɛndrɪk ˈpeːtrʏs ˈbɛrlaːɣə]; 21 February 1856 – 12 August 1934) was a Dutch architect and designer. He is considered one of the fathers of the architecture of the Amsterdam School.

4. Jacobus Oud (1890 - 1963)

With an HPI of 56.81, Jacobus Oud is the 4th most famous Dutch Architect. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages.

Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud (9 February 1890 – 5 April 1963) was a Dutch architect. His fame began as a follower of the De Stijl movement. Oud was born in Purmerend, the son of a tobacco and wine merchant. As a young architect, he was influenced by Berlage, and studied under Theodor Fischer in Munich for a time. He worked together with W.M. Dudok in Leiden, which is where he also met Theo van Doesburg and became involved with the movement De Stijl. Between 1918 and 1933, Oud became Municipal Housing Architect for Rotterdam. During this period when many laborers were coming to the city, he mostly worked on socially progressive residential projects. This included projects in the areas of Spangen, Kiefhoek and the Witte Dorp. Oud was one of a number of Dutch architects who attempted to reconcile strict, rational, 'scientific' cost-effective construction technique against the psychological needs and aesthetic expectations of the users. His own answer was to practice 'poetic functionalism'. In 1927, he was one of the fifteen architects who contributed to the influential modernist Weissenhof Estate exhibition. In America Oud is perhaps best known for being lauded and adopted by the mainstream modernist movement, then summarily kicked out on stylistic grounds. As of 1932, he was considered one of the four greatest modern architects (along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier), and was prominently featured in Philip Johnson's International Style exhibition. Johnson maintained a correspondence with Oud, tried to help him get work, commissioned a house for his mother (never built), and sent him socks and bicycle tires. In 1945, after the end of World War II allowed photographs of Oud's 1941 Shell Headquarters building in The Hague to be published in America, the architectural press sarcastically condemned his use of ornament ("embroidery") as contrary to the spirit of modernism.After World War II, Oud designed the Dutch National War Monument in Amsterdam and the monument of the Military War Cemetery Grebbeberg. By then, he had mostly let go of any Stijl influences. He continued to take a highly individualistic stance against mainstream modernism. He designed projects such as the Spaarbank in Rotterdam, office-building De Utrecht in Rotterdam and the Children's health-centre in Arnhem (Bio-herstellingsoord). Oud's brother, Pieter Oud was mayor of Rotterdam. Oud died in 1963 at the age of 73 in Wassenaar.

5. Jacob van Campen (1596 - 1657)

With an HPI of 55.80, Jacob van Campen is the 5th most famous Dutch Architect. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages.

Jacob van Campen (2 February 1596 - 13 September 1657) was a Dutch artist and architect of the Golden Age.

6. Mart Stam (1899 - 1986)

With an HPI of 54.97, Mart Stam is the 6th most famous Dutch Architect. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages.

Mart Stam (August 5, 1899 – February 21, 1986) was a Dutch architect, urban planner, and furniture designer. Stam was extraordinarily well-connected, and his career intersects with important moments in the history of 20th-century European architecture, including the invention of the cantilever chair, teaching at the Bauhaus, contributions to the Weissenhof Estate, the Van Nelle Factory, (an important modernist landmark in Rotterdam), buildings for Ernst May's New Frankfurt housing estates, followed by work in the USSR with the idealistic May Brigade, to teaching positions in Amsterdam and post-war East Germany. Upon return to the Netherlands he contributed to postwar reconstruction and finally retired, (or rather self-isolated), in Switzerland, where he died. His design philosophy was inspired by both functionalism and scientific communism and his style of design is in line with the New Objectivity, an art movement formed during the depression in 1920s Germany, as a counter-movement and an outgrowth of expressionist architecture.

7. Aldo van Eyck (1918 - 1999)

With an HPI of 54.08, Aldo van Eyck is the 7th most famous Dutch Architect. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages.

Aldo van Eyck (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑldoː vɑn ˈɛik]; 16 March 1918 – 14 January 1999) was a Dutch architect. He was one of the most influential protagonists of the architectural movement Structuralism.

8. Pierre Cuypers (1827 - 1921)

With an HPI of 52.29, Pierre Cuypers is the 8th most famous Dutch Architect. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.

Petrus Josephus Hubertus "Pierre" Cuypers (16 May 1827 – 3 March 1921) was a Dutch architect. His name is most frequently associated with the Amsterdam Central Station (1881–1889) and the Rijksmuseum (1876–1885), both in Amsterdam. More representative for his oeuvre, however, are numerous churches, of which he designed more than 100. Moreover, he restored many monuments.

Pantheon has 15 people classified as architects born between 1527 and 1944. Of these 15, 1 (6.67%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living architects include Rem Koolhaas. The most famous deceased architects include Hans Vredeman de Vries, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, and Jacobus Oud. As of April 2022, 2 new architects have been added to Pantheon including Michel de Klerk and Jan Wils.