(1890–1963)
Architect. Oud studied in Amsterdam and Delft. After working in the archi tectural firm of Petrus Cuypers and Jan Stuyt (1868–1934) in Am sterdam, Oud became an independent architect. Together with Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian, in 1917 he founded the periodi cal De Stijl in Leiden, but he withdrew in 1922, not accepting the dogmatic ideas of the paintersas being useful for an architect. In the meantime, he had contacted his colleagues at the Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar Germany. With Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius, he became famous as an adherent of the International Style. He designed and constructed many buildings, houses, and residential areas in Rotterdam, The Hague, and other places. Oud wrote one of the Bauhaus books, Number 10, Hollandis che Architectur (1926).
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