Dutch photographer Kim Zwarts photographed the residential house and office by architect Jan de Jong (1917-2001) located in Schaijk, Netherlands, constructed between 1956 and 1983. Jan de Jong House is one of the most remarkable buildings of the Bossche School-architecture and has remained an icon of 20th-century residential modernism in the Netherlands ever since its completion in the late 1960s.
The house and its studio come alive in his book through refined qualities of light and natural shading. The property evokes images of an old Mediterranean cloister. Carefully chosen proportions, based on the theory of ‘the Plastic Number’ a system of proportions developed by the Bossche School, mark the design. In the subtle detailing, the architect makes use of simplification and abstraction. As a result, basic forms and surfaces dominate.