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Bijvoet & Duiker.
Dutch architectural partnership founded by Bernard Bijvoet (b Amsterdam, 1889; d Haarlem, 1979) and Johannes Duiker (b The Hague, 1890; d Amsterdam, 1935) in 1913 and active until 1935. They met at secondary school and studied architecture together at the Technische Hogeschool in Delft. Both graduated in 1913 and worked until 1918 in Rotterdam in the office of Henri Evers, one of their teachers at Delft; during this period they entered several competitions. The first in 1913 was for a village church, and their strong, simple vernacular design won first prize, as did their project of 1918–19 for the Karenhuizen home for the elderly in Alkmaar, which reflected the ideas of H. P. Berlage; it was their first executed building. Their next project, again awarded first prize, was for an academy of fine arts in Amsterdam (1917–19; unexecuted); the new influence of Frank Lloyd Wright is evident in both the plan and the interior perspectives. Their striking entry in the competition for the Chicago Tribune Tower (1922; see COMPETITION, fig. 3) in Chicago also paid homage to Wright, with a series of balconies cantilevered far out over the window bands of the lower stories, and suggests as well an interest in De Stijl.
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