Abstract
In 1962, Open Het Dorp (Open the Village), the first telethon ever to air in the Netherlands, enlisted the Dutch people in building a village for people with disabilities. Designed by Jaap Bakema, Het Dorp featured a program for atypical users and unusual terrain at its site that provided an ideal opportunity for exploring the local, humanized, and democratic architecture espoused by Team 10. Wanda Katja Liebermann argues that Het Dorp embodied the Dutch welfare state9s expansion in a design based on Team 109s architectural principles. Despite many innovations, however, its design reveals the incompleteness of postwar architectural modernism and its limits in recognizing and planning for human diversity. Analyzing Het Dorp9s form as well as its representations, Humanizing Modernism? Jaap Bakema9s Het Dorp, a Village for Disabled Citizens critiques postwar architecture9s aspiration to design for “human associations” instead of universal and standard formulas.
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