Forum voor Architectuur en Daarmee Verbonden Kunsten has been the quintessential post-war architectural magazine in the Netherlands, most famously during the editorship of Aldo van Eyck and Jaap Bakema from 1959, which popularised the movement of Dutch Structuralism.
Van Eyck and Bakema led Forum's editorial board from 1959 to 1967, with the young architect Herman Hertzberger serving as editorial secretary from September 1959. Across this period the editors produced 23 issues grouped into four volumes, using the magazine as the principal platform for the Dutch wing of Team 10 — the group that broke with CIAM's functionalist orthodoxy in favour of an architecture grounded in human relationships and "patterns of association."
The first issue coordinated by this editorial team and the journal's final issue under their direction shared the same title, "The Story of Another Idea" (Het verhaal van een andere gedachte), framing their tenure as a single, sustained argument. Other members of the editorial board during this period included D.C. Apon, Gerrit Boon, Joop Hardy, and Jurriaan Schrofer.
This archive holds the 1959–1961 run produced under the van Eyck/Bakema editorship, plus a scattered handful of later issues (1972–1993). The journal's full publication history beyond these years has not yet been fully reconstructed.
No projects have yet been extracted from this title into the database. Forum extensively documented the work of Aldo van Eyck, Jaap Bakema, and Herman Hertzberger, among others — extraction is planned but not yet complete.
This list reflects the journal's best-documented period, 1959–1967, under van Eyck and Bakema. Earlier and later editorial staff have not yet been fully researched.
Dutch architect and a founding member of Team 10; used Forum as the principal platform for his ideas on Structuralism and "patterns of association."
Principal of Van den Broek en Bakema; a leading post-war Dutch architect and, with van Eyck, a central figure in the transition from CIAM to Team 10.
Joined as secretary of the editorial board in September 1959, working alongside van Eyck and Bakema on 23 issues across this period.
Scans of the issues held in this archive were digitised, paginated, OCR-processed, and assembled into PDF booklets by the Architectural Periodicals Database team.
Copyright status has not yet been fully researched for this title. Under EU law (Directive 2006/116/EC), protection for a named author's work lasts 70 years after that author's death. Aldo van Eyck died in 1999 and Jaap Bakema in 1981, meaning their individually authored contributions remain in copyright in the EU until 2069 and 2051 respectively. The Architectural Periodicals Database does not assert ownership of the original creative content, only of the database itself. If you are a rights holder and believe your work has been used without appropriate permission, please contact us at info@architecturalperiodicals.com.