Karel de Bazel

Karel Petrus Cornelis de Bazel (Den Helder, 14 February 1869—Amsterdam, 28 November 1923) was a modern Dutch architect, engraver, draftsman, furniture designer, carpet designer, glass artist and bookbinding designer. He was the teacher of Adriaan Frederik van der Weij and the first chairman of the Bond van Nederlandse Architecten (BNA; the Association of Dutch Architects), beginning in 1909. De Bazel came from a modest background and his formal education as a youth only extended through primary school.

Mature architectural work, 1900–23 The De Bazel building, former headquarters of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij and later ABN-Amro bank, has housed the Amsterdam City Archives since 2007. Photo: bma.amsterdam.nl. thumbnail Interior of the Synagogue of Enschede. In 1904 De Bazel founded the famous Amsterdam furniture studio De Ploeg with his brother-in-law Kees Oosschot and Klaas van Leeuwen. Along with Hendrik Petrus Berlage, he pioneered the Dutch architectural rationalism that would become characteristic of national practice during and after the First World War. Berlage included De Bazel's designs in his 1908 Expansion Plan for The Hague but this was never directly realized, either. De Bremstruik ("The Broomstick") villa for KJL Alberdingk Thijm, in Baarn (1900—01) Office building for Joannes van Woensel Kooy at Flevolaan 67, Huizen (1903) Hofstede dairy farm, Naarden (1904) Houses at Koningslaan 14 and 16, Amsterdam (1904) Moltzer-Boeke House, Wilhelminalaan 4, Alkmaar (1904—05) Ideal project for the "World Capital" at The Hague (1905—06) Woudoord villa in Oranjewoud, Heerenveen (1908) Restoration of the Rembrandt House, Jodenbreestraat 4, Amsterdam (1908—11) Villa at Beethovenlaan 29, Hilversum (1910) Heerenpoort railway station in Leiden (1911) CJ and J. Pabst House, Steenbergen 6, Laren (1911) Villa Meentwijck, Groot Hertoginnelaan 34A, Bussum (1912) JC Loman House, Johannes Vermeerstraat 14, Amsterdam (1912) Project for Rotterdam City Hall (1912—13) Nederlandse Heidemaatschappij in Arnhem (1912—14) House at Dam 81, Amsterdam (1913) De Boschkamp Farm greenhouse and coachhouse (1913) Villa at Oudwijkerlaan 47, Utrecht (1914) Steens Zijnen House, Van Lawick van Pabststraat 31, Arnhem (1916) Redelé villa at Parklaan 56, Eindhoven (1916) Workers' houses in the Spaarndammerbuurt in Amsterdam (1918—23) De Wyk villa for G. Mesdag, Haren (1919) Office building for the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij in Amsterdam (1919—26) New residential area, the Brediuskwartier, in Bussum (1921) Sliedrecht Town Hall (1921—23) Synagogue of Enschede (after 1923) Workers' housing complex at Rijswijkseweg 340, The Hague (1923—25)

Other design work Stamp design for Amsterdam City Archives, ca. 1900 Cover for Wendingen, vol. 2, no. 1 (January 1919)

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