Career

He worked in Amsterdam and the His good contacts with businessmen earned him commissions for offices, shops and houses. Instead, he designed a few dozen railway stations, which were mostly built in the north of the country, several hospitals and many houses. Cuypers and his employees also designed pieces of furniture and other objects for interiors, such as lamps.

In 1905 Cuypers published Het Huis, Oud & Nieuw (The House, Old and New), a magazine for interior design that was published until he died in 1927.

He was buried at Zorgvlied cemetery. The office of Eduard Cuypers is considered as the origin of the Amsterdam School because the leaders of this style, Michel de Klerk, Johan van der Mey and Piet Kramer, were all trained there.

After Cuypers died in 1927, his office was continued by others The current name is A/Doctorate Amstel Architects.

Cuypers opened an agency in the to work on major projects such as the headquarters and branch office of De Javasche Bank in Indonesia.

With Marius J. Hulswit, Cuypers opened the largest architectural agency in the East Indies, then called Hulswit-Fermont, Batavia and Cuypers, Amsterdam.