5 June 2019 – The architect and professor Uwe Schröder, much admired by me, invited me for a lecture in Aachen. The series Werkberichte explores built architecture and its design process. I think I will discuss urban ornaments. Reiff-Museum, Aachen, >>>

4 June 2019 – Yesterday we have assessed the mock-ups of the Persoonshaven facades. The contractor had provided variants with different mortars and joints. Together with Riki Aarden of Woonstad and Bauke Vink and Leon van Dijk of Bouwbedrijf Vink >>>

3 May 2019 – The sustainability of much affordable housing needs to be improved as a matter of urgency. That is a complex task. How do we choose an approach that is both qualitive and affordable? How do respond to >>>

7 March 2019 – The book Street Architecture which our office has published last year has been selected as one of the 33 best designed Dutch book designs. A total of 295 entries were assessed for their distinctive qualities by >>>

7 maart 2019 – Weigeliaplein is a particular urban space in the The Hague Heesterbuurt district. Based on an urban design made by H.P. Berlage, two closed perimeter blocks with a street in between were joined together and redesigned as >>>

6 March 2019 –The exhibition Alternative Histories will be opened shortly. For the occasion, a  group of 84 European architects has made a model which is based on a sketch of a renowned colleague. In my case this was a >>>

29 January 2019 – It is an old desire to draw my housing projects as a consistent catalogue. I have opted for simple diagrams with plans, sections and facades. I find those important for housing: in one glance the functionality, >>>

21 January 2019 – Today, the model has been collected for the exhibition ‘Alternative History’, which is being prepared by Jantje Engels and Marius Grootveld (Veldwerk Architecten, Belgium) in collaboration with Ellis Woodman (Architecture Foundation, UK) and Niall Hobhouse (Drawing >>>

27 December 2018 – At the end of each year the media publish their retrospections. The magazine De Architect reports that housing has dominated the news of 2018 and illustrates that observation with the our successful bid for framework for >>>

18 December 2018 – Architecture on Stage is a series of architects’ talks programmed by the Architecture Foundation in partnership with the Barbican Centre in London. AF’s director Ellis Woodman invited me to speak about recent projects and their engagement >>>

4 December 2018 – Today, Divisare published a chique box set with six booklets on my work. Five of those present photographs taken by my friend Stefan Müller. The sixth volume Contains a revision of the article ‘The Heroism of >>>

30 October 2018 – The November edition of Architectural Review is about tendencies in Dutch architecture. In his article Triple Dutch, the Dutch critic Hans Ibelings elaborates on the developments in the home country of renowned international Starchitects. Ibelings mentions >>>

12 September 2018 – Densification, the architecture centre of Amsterdam, Arcam, organises a debate in which new and realised dwelling concept are discussed within this theme. Arcam called for all innovative architects, clients and developers to submit new housing types, >>>

30 August 2018 – ‘Street Architecture, Work by Hans van der Heijden’ was launched by Ellis Woodman at the AA Bookshop in London. The book has been reviewed positively. Marko Sauer wrote for example: The subtitle suggests that this book is >>>

28 August 2018 – Michelle Kox has not been working for one week in my studio and she already achieved a major success. The Rotterdam Architecture Academy (Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst, RAvB) has nominated her graduation project for the Amsterdam >>>

31 July 2018 – The Swiss magazine Modulør is dedicated to ‘New Dutch’ architecture. The subtitle of the issue which appeared today is: Mind the Context. Modulør presents architects who stayed sober during the excitement about conceptual ‘Superdutch’ architecture. They >>>

16 July 2018 – This spring I had the privilege to tutor two groups of architecture students from Vaduz (Liechtenstein) and Rotterdam (The Netherlands). In the design course we focussed on the urban building type of the Florentine palazzo as >>>

30 May 2018 – The design for the Houses with Many Doors for Old Kent Road in London is on show at the exhibition La Città: Progetti Urbani in Padova. The exhibition was organized by Di Architettura and display proposals >>>

29 May 2018 – The block which in the 2004 urban renewal scheme for Lakerlopen, Eindhoven was rather prosaically referred to as Block 3 will now be built. Last Monday night, the project developer Stam + De Koning presented the >>>

21 May 2018 – There are two kinds of housing typology. The first studies extreme possibilities. I always call it the Sherwood School, after Roger Sherwood who wrote the famous reference book Modern Housing Prototypes. This approach is firmly about experiments >>>

23 April 2018 – The architectural historian Werner Oechslin invited me to contribute to the colloquium Civilian Architecture. We met in Werner’s library in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Surrounded by an impressive amount of antique books, an international company of architects and >>>

9 April 2018 – Hans van der Heijden Architect has been appointed by Travel for London (TfL) and the Greater London Authority (GLA) to the Architecture Design Urbanism Panel (ADUP), which is comprised of twelve practices as part of a >>>

28 February 2018 – It doesn’t happen every day that Dutch social housing, a refurbishment project even, makes it to the Wall Street Journal. The critic Julie Iovine writes about the Splayed Apartment blocks renovation in Rotterdam Ommoord: On the >>>

26 February 2018 – Last weekend I was in New York for the opening of the exhibition ‘Social Housing, New European Projects’ in the Center for Architecture. My contributions were a large model of the refurbishment of the Knikkers in >>>

6 February 2018 – Street Architecture is published. After three and a half years of hard work in my own office, a new portfolio appears and with it, a new monograph. Karin Templin, a London and Florence based expert in >>>

5 February 2018 – We work on a new social housing project at Persoonshaven in Feijenoord, as Rotterdammers say: Upon South. On the occasion of the preliminary design, we made an imaginary vedute from the window of the new houses. >>>

24 January 2018 – Across Europe, a new generation of architecture practices are transforming affordable housing. Responding to continued need, changing clients, and new funding methods, architects are once again addressing how homes can be delivered at scale while piloting >>>