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Jaap Bakema

1914 - 1981

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Jacob Berend "Jaap" Bakema (8 March 1914 – 20 February 1981) was a Dutch modernist architect, notable for design of public housing and involvement in the reconstruction of Rotterdam after the Second World War. Born in Groningen, Bakema studied at the Groningen Higher Technical College (1931–1936) and the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, where he studied among others with Mart Stam. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jaap Bakema has received more than 39,476 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Jaap Bakema is the 380th most popular architect (down from 337th in 2019), the 674th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 556th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Dutch Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Jaap Bakema ranks 380 out of 518. Before him are Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis, Lipót Baumhorn, Clemens Holzmeister, Jan Wils, Victor Baltard, and Diébédo Francis Kéré. After him are Alessandro Antonelli, Alberto Palacio, Shelley McNamara, Kaare Klint, Paolo Soleri, and Vannoccio Biringuccio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Jaap Bakema ranks 249. Before him are Adolf Urban, Orhan Kemal, Sven Jacobsson, John Ireland, Oscar Heisserer, and Renato Olmi. After him are Zainul Abedin, Ehrenfried Patzel, Rosalyn Tureck, Alan Bullock, Claude Mauriac, and Dmitry Lavrinenko. Among people deceased in 1981, Jaap Bakema ranks 155. Before him are Francis Hunter, Ernesto Prinoth, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Yury Trifonov, Lev Atamanov, and Juan Trippe. After him are Mikhail Zharov, László Raffinsky, Mark Donskoy, Beulah Bondi, Tadeusz Kotarbiński, and Jack Northrop.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jaap Bakema ranks 674 out of 1,646. Before him are Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper (1890), Harry Vos (1946), Bep Voskuijl (1919), Jan Wils (1891), Peter Aerts (1970), and Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt (1816). After him are Janwillem van de Wetering (1931), Gerbrand Bredero (1585), Hans van Manen (1932), Wim Jonk (1966), Simon Tahamata (1956), and Richard Krajicek (1971).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Netherlands

Among architects born in Netherlands, Jaap Bakema ranks 14. Before him are Pieter Post (1608), Salomon de Bray (1597), Pierre Cuypers (1827), Willem Marinus Dudok (1884), Tylman van Gameren (1632), and Jan Wils (1891). After him are Michel de Klerk (1884).

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