Amsterdam’s East­ern Har­bour Dis­trict con­sists of a num­ber of arti­fi­cial penin­su­las con­struct­ed around 1900. When the once-flour­ish­ing port lost its func­tion, the deci­sion was made to turn the dis­trict into a promi­nent res­i­den­tial area. Diverse urban plans were devised for the var­i­ous sec­tions of the dis­trict. Vir­tu­al­ly every Dutch archi­tect of stand­ing and renown con­tributed to the archi­tec­tur­al real­iza­tion of these plans, mak­ing the East­ern Har­bor Dis­trict not only a pleas­ant and high­ly sought-after res­i­den­tial area, but also a true sam­pling of the Dutch hous­ing con­struc­tion of recent decades.