Jacobus van Lokhorst. Photograph taken from the magazine De Opmerker, 1906
Van Lockhorst was the Government Architect for Educational Buildings on behalf of the Department of Art and Sciences of the Ministry of Home Affairs. Together with P.J.H. Cuypers and C.H. Peters, he set a new trend in government building design, proposing the Neo-Renaissance as the national building style. He later built in the Neo-Gothic style, however. Van Lockhorst was one of the most productive government architects of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. His design portfolio consisted mainly of provincial government buildings, university laboratories and archive buildings, but his real specialty was industrial building.
Further reading
Jacobus van Lokhorst / [report drawn up by P. Rosenberg]. - [The Hague] : Government Buildings Agency, 1987. - 56, [40] p. : illustrations, photographs, plans, drawings ; 30 cm. - (Geschiedenis van het rijksbouwen)
“De Rijksbouwkundige Jacobus van Lokhorst en zijn bureau 1878-1906" / G.S. Van Holthe tot Echten. – In Bulletin KNOB 85 (1986) 4, p. 193-209
Saxa Loquuntur. – [Nijmegen : s.n., 1903]. – 54 p. : illustrations, photographs, drawings ; 27 cm.
Dedicated to Jacobus van Lokhorst on the occasion of his 25th anniversary as Chief Government Architect. [photocopy]
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