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Stuyt was born the son of a cattle farmer. Due to the headmaster of his school, he was employed in 1883 at the office of
Adrianus Bleijs (1842-1912), whose
neo-Romanesque style would strongly influence Stuyt's work.
Career
In 1891 Stuyt joined the
Cuypers office in
Amsterdam, where he became an overseer of the building of the
Cathedral of Saint Bavo in
Haarlem between 1895 and 1898. He then had a short career as an independent architect, during which he built his first church.
In 1899 Stuyt formed a partnership with
Joseph Cuypers, son of Pierre Cuypers, which lasted until 1909. It seems that the architects in this period mostly worked on their own. Jan Stuyt mostly designed neo-Romanesque churches, often decorated with
chessboard-like tile-decorations, which are present in many of the churches both during and after the partnership. Cuypers chose a more neo-Gothic approach, closely related to the work of his father.
Stuyt's style was greatly influenced by
Mediterranean (
Italian,
Byzantine,
Islamic) architecture after his participation in the first Dutch
pilgrimage to
Palestine in 1903. Several of his most important churches were
dome-churches, shaped after the
Hagia Sophia in
Constantinople. His less prestigious designs were often executed in a simple neo-Romanesque style, combining standard elements.
Besides churches Stuyt designed various other buildings and was also active in town planning, especially in the city of
Heerlen. He was an architect for housing corporation
Ons Limburg and in that function designed the
Molenberg neighbourhood.[1] In his profane designs influences from
(neo-)Classicism and the work of
K.P.C. de Bazel are apparent.
Stuyt Jr.
After Stuyt's death, his son
Giacomo C. Stuyt continued the office for several years, apparently with considerably less success, before becoming a diplomat. His first and best known work is the church of
St. Paulus in
Utrecht of 1937, which has been demolished already.