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Van Loghem worked as senior architect in the Kemerovo district at the heart of Siberia between April 1926 and January 1927. He was employed by the A.I.K., an autonomous international mining trust led by the Dutch engineer Sebald Rutgers.

In the Netherlands, Van Loghem had a good reputation as architect of villas for rich citizens of Haarlem. In the early twenties he built four social housing districts in Haarlem (i.e. Tuinwijk-Zuid in 1922), inspired by the English garden cities, and was one of the architects of the experimental modernist social housing district Betondorp in Amsterdam.

After his work in the Soviet Union, he came back as a left wing radical. He joined the artist association Opbouw where he preached his new convictions. This didn¹t help him much in his career: his building days were nearly over.

van loghem in 1926