Museum Het Schip
Amsterdam School expressionist housing block turned museum, famous for its brick turret and social housing history.
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This guide to Museum Het Schip in Amsterdam follows Michel de Klerk, a self-taught draughtsman's son who was commissioned in 1917 by the socialist housing cooperative Eigen Haard to build workers' housing on an awkward triangular plot. You'll hear how he shaped the brick, the turret and the interiors, and what became of him after the building was finished. It closes with a young Belgian art student who arrived in Amsterdam years later and chose this tower over the city's grander landmarks.
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