The life and work of Thomas Karsten
By: Joost Coté, Hugh O'Neill ; and Pauline K.M. van Roosmalen, Helen Ibbitson Jessup
Contributors: O'Neill, Hugh; Roosmalen, Pauline K. M. van; Jessup, Helen Ibbitson
Publisher: Architectura & Natura Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9789461400598
Subjects: Architects; Biography; City planners; Dutch
Description: Thomas Karsten (1884 - 1945) was one of a small group of modern Dutch architects that included men like Henri Maclaine Pont and C.P. Wolf Schoemaker who developed their careers in the Dutch East Indies in the first half of the twentieth century. Karsten laid the foundations of modern urban Indonesia with work represented in Semarang, Solo, Padang, Palembang and Medan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.