Aldo van Eyck (1918–1999) was a Dutch architect, one of the most influential figures of Structuralism and a leading voice against the narrow functionalism of post-war modernism. Born in Driebergen, he grew up in England from 1919 and finished school in The Hague before studying at ETH Zurich, graduating in 1942 and staying in Switzerland until the war's end. A member of CIAM, he co-founded Team 10 in 1954 and, with Herman Hertzberger and Jaap Bakema, edited the magazine Forum from 1959 to 1963, calling for a return to humanism in architecture. He taught at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture and from 1966 to 1984 was a professor at Delft. He often worked with his wife, the architect Hannie van Rooijen, and received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1990 and the Wolf Prize in 1996.
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His early work included the plan for the new village of Nagele on the Noordoostpolder and its primary schools. Then came the Amsterdam Orphanage (Burgerweeshuis) (1960), the Pastoor van Arskerk in The Hague (1969), Hubertus House in Amsterdam (1978) and, later, a restaurant and conference centre for the European Space Agency at Noordwijk.
