Piet Blom, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Piet Blom

Dutch architect

Date of Birth: 08-Feb-1934

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 08-Jun-1999

Profession: architect

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Piet Blom (Dutch pronunciation: ['pid 'bl?m]; February 8, 1934, Amsterdam – June 8, 1999, Denmark) was a Dutch architect best known for his 'Kubuswoningen' (Cube houses) built in Helmond in the mid-1970s and in Rotterdam in the early 1980s.
He studied at the Amsterdam Academy of Building-Arts as a student of Aldo van Eyck. Piet was selected as the Dutch Prix de Rome recipient in 1962. Piet Blom, Aldo van Eyck, Herman Hertzberger a.o.
are representatives of the movement Structuralism. There is a Museum dedicated to Piet Blom's works that opened in May, 2013 in Hengelo, The Netherlands.