Mart Stam

Mart Stam (Purmerend, 5 August 1899 – Zurich, 21 February 1986) was a Dutch architect, urban planner and designer. 

Stam studied in Amsterdam, then worked as a draughtsman until 1922. In Zurich in 1923 he met Hans Schmidt, El Lissitzky and Hannes Meyer and with them founded the magazine «ABC».
Between 1926 and 1930 he contributed to the design, together with Lendert van der Vlugt, of the Van Nelle factory, a manifesto work of a new functionalist trend in the modern movement carried forward by a younger and more politicised generation than Gropius and Le Corbusier, ……Wikipedia…>>