Albert Aalbers

Albert Frederik Aalbers is a Dutch architect who created elegant villas, hotels, and office buildings in Bandung, Indonesia, during Dutch colonial rule in the 1930s. Albert Aalbers worked in the Netherlands between 1924 and 1930 and then migrated to the Dutch East Indies, after which he returned to the Netherlands in 1942 due to World War II and political circumstances following Indonesian independence. During his stay in Bandung, in a period when the city was dubbed the city of architecture laboratory, a number of his buildings were considered architectural masterpieces. Aalbers' style was inspired by expressionist Frank Lloyd Wright and modernist Le Corbusier. In Bandung, the DENIS bank in Braga Street and the Savoy Homann Hotel in Asia-Afrika Street, still carry Aalber's ocean wave ornamentation.

13 December 1897

Born on the same birth date (13 December 1897): Drew Pearson (journalist)

Born on the same birth day (13 December): Elizabeth Alexander (scientist) • Hanna-Maria Seppälä • Heinrich Heine • Hellen Obiri • Howard Brenton • Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner • Lucía Sánchez Saornil • Morris Day • Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira • Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark • Talcott Parsons • William Drummond of Hawthornden

Born in the same month (December 1897): Alfredo Bracchi • Drew Pearson (journalist) • Fletcher Henderson • Gershom Scholem • Hermione Gingold • Ivan Bagramyan • Kurt Schuschnigg • Margaret Chase Smith • Nunnally Johnson • Rewi Alley • Robert Redfield • Ronald Skirth • Ville Pörhölä • Väinö Sipilä • William Gropper