Blom won the ‘Prix de Rome’ in October 1962 with his draft for the ‘Pestalozzi’ children’s village. The core of this design was the promotion of living together by means of architecture. Benefiting from the awarded grant, Blom elaborated his perception on house construction, entitled ‘Living as a common urban roof’. Blom presented his vision as a forest of habitats on posts by means of which he returned the ground floor to the city. While, in this period, modernism prevailed, Blom continued to look for a synergy of architecture and urban development, of work and living, humans being the pivotal figures in his drafts.

His first big assignment was the renovation of a farm, transformed into a refectory of theTwente Institute of Technology. A couple of years later, Blom was able to realize his ideas of an urban roof in Hengelo. The ‘Kasbah’ district was his answer to the prevailing two-dimensional monotonous suburban districts.

In 1972 Blom designed theatre ‘’t Speelhuis’ in Helmond, a variation on the ‘Kasbah’, containing 18 cube habitats. Six years later, the cube houses were build at a larger scale in Rotterdam. With this architectural concept, Blom acquired world fame. After the completion of the Minerva Academy in 1984 silence fell around Blom, but ten years later he returned with his romantic designs for ‘het Gasbedrijf’ in Heemskerk and ‘het Russisch Paleisje’. Blom passed away on June 8th 1999 during a holiday break in Denmark.