WoonWerkPand Tetterode is a residential and work complex in Amsterdam, occupying the former premises of N.V. Lettergieterij Amsterdam, formerly N. Tetterode, on Bilderdijkstraat and Da Costakade.13 Its buildings were developed in stages by several architects: the article credits Johan W.F. Hartkamp, Jan Frederik van Erven Dorens, Merkelbach & Karsten, Merkelbach & Elling, and K.P.C. de Bazel.13
After the foundry left in 1981, a developer proposed replacing the complex with luxury apartments and shops; squatters occupied it in protest.1 In 1986, five years after the occupation began, Amsterdam had bought the complex, and the squatters—organised as one cooperative—were able to rent the building shell from housing association Het Oosten.1 The project’s development combined collective occupation with a formal arrangement for the building’s continued use as a place to live and work.
Holslag van Nek van Hoek Architekten renovated the complex between 1983 and 1986, making interventions to improve safety.13 A notable change was the removal of part of the roof over the factory hall between the buildings, creating an inner courtyard and an escape route.1 The housing association provided the shell, while residents and users shaped the interior fit-out, a distinction the article relates to architect John Habraken’s ideas about base building and user-created infill.1
The article presents Tetterode as a living-and-working community formed within an existing industrial complex, rather than as a conventional new-build housing development.1 It was published in 2019 by Mikel van Gelderen, an architect and educator affiliated with TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment.12