Charles Prosper Wolff Schoemaker

The Villa Isola in Bandung, designed by Wolff Schoemaker

Charles Prosper Wolff Schoemaker (25 July 1882 – 22 May 1949)[1] was a Dutch architect who designed several distinguished Art Deco buildings in Bandung, Indonesia, including the Villa Isola and Hotel Preanger.[2] He has been described as "the Frank Lloyd Wright of Indonesia,"[2] and Wright had a considerable influence on Wolff Schoemaker's modernist designs.[3] Although he was primarily known as an architect, he was also a painter and sculptor.

  1. ^ "Wolff Schoemaker, Charles Prosper" (in Dutch). Nederlands Architectuurinstituut. Retrieved 28 July 2010. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ a b Jan van Dullemen (2010). "Tropical Modernity: Life and Work of C.P. Wolff Schoemaker". SUN architecture. Archived from the original on 25 September 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
  3. ^ Vu, Tuong; Wongsurawat, Wasana (2009). Dynamics of the Cold War in Asia: Ideology, Identity, and Culture. Macmillan. p. 64. ISBN 9780230621947.