"Whatever space and time mean, place and occasion mean more.”
The series of before and after photos show a sad bombed-out city coming back to life...recuscitation by playground. Architect Aldo van Eyck (1918-1999) became world-famous for his design of the Municipal Orphanage in Amsterdam. The roughly 730 playgrounds that the designed for the city between 1947 and 1978 have been rather forgotten, but are at least as important and interesting a part of his oeuvre. They illustrate his vision on the use of the city, in which unsightly oddments of urban space were transformed into usable and architecturally interesting playgrounds, including the integration of existing elements such as walls and window patterns.
Playground is a place which can cohere people and improve human association.
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