Piet Kramer

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Piet Kramer
Piet Kramer

Pieter Lodewijk Kramer (1881-1961) was a Dutch architect, one of the most important architects of the Amsterdam School.

Kramer collaborated with his friend Michel de Klerk in the architectural practice of Eduard Cuypers. In 1911 he collaborated in the design of the Scheepvaarthuis (Shipping House), with Johan van der Mey and Michel de Klerk. Kramer also collaborated with de Klerk on the P.L. Takstraat/Burgemeester Tellegenstraat complex. Its corner portion is very striking — like the turrets De Klerk incorporated in his Hemburgstraat building, it is purely decorative and not functional.

De Bijenkorf Store, The Hague
De Bijenkorf Store, The Hague

From 1917 to 1952 Kramer was architect at the department for bridges at the Amsterdam Gemeentelijke Dienst Publieke Werken (municipal public works department). In total Kramer designed approximately four hundred bridges, of which around one hundred were for the Amsterdamse Bos park. For these bridges he also frequently designed the associated bridge houses, the ironwork and even the landscape plans. The sculptural work was generally done by Hildo Krop.

Outside Amsterdam Kramer designed, amongst other works, The Bijenkorf department store in The Hague and three villas in Park Meerwijk in Bergen.

[edit] Works (Selected)

  • 1911—1916 - Scheepvaarthuis (Navigation House)
  • 1917—1928 - Over bridges for the Department of public works, Amsterdam
  • 1924—1926 - De Bijenkorf Store, The Hague

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[edit] Sources

the text on this page or an earlier version of it has been taken from the Dutch wiki article at and the Internet site of the BMA, http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl

  • Curl, James Stevens [2006]. A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (Paperback), Second (in English), Oxford University Press, 880. ISBN 0-19-860678-8. 
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