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NOORDER CEMETERY HILVERSUM

W.M. DUDOK, 1927-1930, Laan 1940-1945 2, Hilversum

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Willem Marinus Dudok

RENOVATOR:
EGM
Yvonne van der Pluijm

BUILDING TYPE:
Cemeteries

STATE:
Y.P.J. van der Pluijm (EGM) (rest. 1994-1996)


RELATED BUILDINGS:
Dudok in Hilversum
Cemetery De Zuiderhof

Willem Marinus Dudok was first director of Public Works (1915-1928) and then City Architect to Hilversum (1928-1954). In both capacities he set an indelible stamp on the architecture and planning in that city. Obviously this is most legible in the monumental, visually defining https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/628" class="inline_link">city hall which has become almost synonymous with Hilversum. But his many housing projects, schools and other municipal buildings have exerted a more fundamental influence. Among the few Dudok buildings in a functionalist-modernist idiom may be included this cemetery and the Wildschut pavilion (1936). It is in this cemetery, tautly organized rather than in the traditional landscape style and with a white-rendered abstract pavilion cum caretaker's lodge, that the master lies buried.