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The Vandelay collection

Structuralist architecture

Structuralist architecture organises buildings as flexible frameworks of repeating spatial units — like a city in miniature where individual rooms or zones can be adapted without disrupting the whole.

1 building in this collection · 1 city · 1 country

Featured building
Monte Amiata Housing Complex
Architects
Aldo Rossi · Carlo Aymonino
Monte Amiata Housing Complex, Milan
Monte Amiata Housing Complex Milan

The wider context

Architecture in focus

Structuralist architecture organises buildings as flexible frameworks of repeating spatial units — like a city in miniature where individual rooms or zones can be adapted without disrupting the whole. The movement emerged in the 1960s from Dutch architects Aldo van Eyck and Herman Hertzberger, who rejected both Modernist top-down planning and the anonymity of mass housing.

Hertzberger's Centraal Beheer office in Apeldoorn is the canonical example: a honeycomb of identical concrete units that occupants personalise. The Orphanage by Van Eyck in Amsterdam uses a similar principle at a smaller scale. These buildings treat architecture as a support structure for human activity rather than a finished composition.

Where to explore

Start with the cities with the most documented examples in this collection. Each count refers to buildings tagged Structuralist in Vandelay.

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Architects in this collection

Counts show their documented Structuralist buildings. The links open each architect’s wider collection.

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What does this collection cover?
Vandelay currently documents 1 building tagged Structuralist across 1 city. These counts describe our selected catalogue, not a complete inventory. A building can appear under more than one architectural theme.
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