Felix Versten

Felix Versten (23 July 1920 - 12 January 2019) was a Brunanter post-war architect and urban planner. He is the founder of Brunanter minimalist architecture.

Biography
Born in Drenthe, Versten studied architecture at the Royal University of Koningstad. After the Second World War, Koningstad had to be expanded. The capital's population increased strongly and Versten designed several apartment buildings and social housing estates in the newly founded Inter District. For the neighborhood's construction, Versten was also responsible for the urban design plan; he designed a neighborhood centrally around four main streets and a square.

In the 1950s, Versten also designed buildings in the Industriestad area. He is best known, however, for his work in the U-Stad district of Grijzestad. He designed most of the student residences, which are still used by the Grijzestad University as of today. Felix Versten mainly designed residential buildings, but he is also known for some larger iconic buildings, including the Hendrik Neyt Primary School (1962) and the National Museum of Science and Nature (1965).

In 1963, Versten started working as a professor of architecture at the Grijzestad University.

Versten retired from designing buildings in the early 1980s, and from teaching in 1994. He died in 2019.