ABSTRACT
Eduard Böhtlingk studied architecture at the Technical University of Delft, and amongst his professors was Tjeerd Dijkstra who later became the Chief Architect for the Netherlands Government. In 1982 Böhtlingk’s newly formed independent
new office building in Oud-Beijerland. He conceived a completely flexible façade that could be altered by unclicking aluminium frames from a sub-system – a flexibility which has been used in the intervening years to make changes in the way the building is used. His practice has since completed many buildings in the Netherlands – in fact, it is this ‘fixed’ work that has supported the continuous experimentation with ‘mobile’ design, even funding the construction of his most significant project, the ‘Markies’.
