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22 January 2021 – Today’s arrival: the special issue which the web platform A. ZINE published on women in architecture. The title is Mrs. Architect.
>>>16 January 2021 – Bricks all over… The jury of the Fritz Höger Preis 2020 gave us the Special Mention Award for our project Kloosterbuuren,
>>>14 January 2021 – Economy Class is a one-day symposium curated by Richard Hall, who invited me to contribute with a lecture called: ‘Housing as
>>>30 December 2020 – The end-of-year-lists… Our design for the Houses with Two Doors at Persoonshaven appears to be heading the list of NRC’s architecture
>>>24 September 2020 – Apparently, it is important: the conference in Padua will go ahead. In Italy, of course, they know everything about Corona. Nevertheless,
>>>9 September 2020 – I was rather taken to be nominated as Architect of the Year 2020. Below you can read why. British/American Karin Templin
>>>31 August 2020 – Blown away … great news. There is appreciation for my housing desging work and that feels well. I am going back
>>>22 May 2020 – They have not been idle during the Lockdown at the Architecture Foundation. The British architecture centre, led by Ellis Woodman has
>>>22 April 2020 – In January I gave a lecture at the Aachener Tagung – Identität der Architektur. This is a yearly conference where architects
>>>17 April 2020 – Upon invitation of my colleague Antje Freiesleben I wrote an article about her architectural practice Modersohn Freiesleben in Berlin. I accepted
>>>18 March 2020 – The design with which we earned our place on the ADUP shortlist, the typological study to the renewal of Old Kent
>>>8 August 2019 – Following the exhibition of Alternative Histories in London last spring, the exhibition travels to Belgium this September. Acknowledging that architecture is a
>>>5 June 2019 – The architect and professor Uwe Schröder, much admired by me, invited me for a lecture in Aachen. The series Werkberichte explores
>>>29 April 2019 – One weekend ago, the daily newspaper De Volkskrant published an interview about the position of architecture in The Netherlands. The conversation
>>>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,
>>>27 December 2018 – At the end of each year the media publish their retrospections. The magazine De Architect reports that housing has dominated the
>>>19 November 2018 – Rotterdam will get 26 new affordable houses. Rotterdam City Council has issued the permits for the construction of the so-called BeBos (beneden-
>>>30 October 2018 – The November edition of Architectural Review is about tendencies in Dutch architecture. In his article Triple Dutch, the Dutch critic Hans
>>>28 August 2018 – Michelle Kox has not been working for one week in my studio and she already achieved a major success. The Rotterdam
>>>16 July 2018 – This spring I had the privilege to tutor two groups of architecture students from Vaduz (Liechtenstein) and Rotterdam (The Netherlands). In
>>>30 May 2018 – The design for the Houses with Many Doors for Old Kent Road in London is on show at the exhibition La
>>>29 May 2018 – The block which in the 2004 urban renewal scheme for Lakerlopen, Eindhoven was rather prosaically referred to as Block 3 will
>>>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,
>>>9 April 2018 – Hans van der Heijden Architect has been appointed by Travel for London (TfL) and the Greater London Authority (GLA) to the
>>>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
>>>26 February 2018 – Last weekend I was in New York for the opening of the exhibition ‘Social Housing, New European Projects’ in the Center
>>>6 February 2018 – Street Architecture is published. After three and a half years of hard work in my own office, a new portfolio appears
>>>5 February 2018 – We work on a new social housing project at Persoonshaven in Feijenoord, as Rotterdammers say: Upon South. On the occasion of
>>>24 January 2018 – Across Europe, a new generation of architecture practices are transforming affordable housing. Responding to continued need, changing clients, and new funding
>>>15 January 2018 – The scaffoldings on the construction site of Churchillpark in Leiden are being taken down. Now it shows how beautiful the repeating
>>>6 July 2017 – Yesterday evening I had the pleasure to present Post Piraeus, the publication we made with 10 architects about Hans Kollhoff’s renowned
>>>27 June 2017 – On the Archined website Elmar Koers discusses the Kloosterbuuren project. ‘The spatial quality of the new ensemble is high. In masterly
>>>23 May 2017 – Imagination, the word does not always have a nice resonance. Yet, the Dutch state architect Floris Alkemade used the word quite
>>>19 May 2017 – Mock-ups of the brickwork were made at the construction site of Churchillpark. The brightly red bricks of the atrium block appear
>>>19 April 2017 – My colleague Machiel Spaans invited me for a key note lecture at the Conference ‘Crafting the Façade’ at the University of
>>>29 March 2017 – The renovation project for the splayed apartment blocks in Rotterdam Ommoord features in a new reference book on social housing design
>>>14 March 2017 – This year, the artists of the Bluecoat in Liverpool are celebrating the 300th anniversary of their building. In 1717, Bryan Blundell
>>>18 January 2017 – Ever more people like city living. There is ample space available, yet many people do not find a proper place. Especially
>>>16 December 2016 – German architecture schools still offer courses in Building Studies. At the university of Kaiserslautern the students Sandra Brand and Eric Schindler
>>>24 september 2016 – My designs for Berlin feature in the book WerkBundStadt Am Spreebord which presents the location for the new WerkBundStadt, comments on
>>>7 September 2016 – Because city living becomes ever more popular in Groningen, the City Council is organizing the event City Heart Dwelling. Together with
>>>10 August 2016 – The website of the magazine De Architect opens with a picture that I took of one of the most beautiful buildings
>>>3 August 2016 – Ten years after completion of the so-called Starter Homes in Pleinen, Hoofddorp the project is topical again. This month, the magazine
>>>11 July 2016 – I am going to build in Berlin. Together with 30 other architects I was invited by the Berliner Werkbund to contribute
>>>7 July 2016 – The first design of Hans van der Heijden Architect will start on site shortly. Amvest has reached an agreement with Bouwbedrijf
>>>6 July 2016 – I am invited by AM to work on the Drie Hoefijzers, the new district behind the railway station of Breda. Next
>>>20 June 2016 – Once a year the so-called City Dialogue takes place in Bremen, Germany. Representatives of social housing trusts, real estate managements, city
>>>25 May 2016 – After twenty years, a new monograph on the work of my Flemish colleagues De Smet Vermeulen Architects is now available. Critical
>>>3 May 2016 – Some weeks ago, together with my colleague-architect Hugh Strange, I re-visited the housing project at Oranjeboomstraat in South Rotterdam. As a
>>>12 April 2016 – The Yearbook Architecture in the Netherlands 2015-2016, which I am an editor of, is finished. This year again I have studied hundreds
>>>23 March 2016 – The tasks for design of the model housing estate at the river Spree have been divided. The 34 participating architects drew
>>>1 February 2016 – The social houses at Oranjeboomstraat have drawn attention in Switzerland. The magazine Werk Bauen + Wohnen published an article by the
>>>28 December 2015 – The book ‘Brick, an Exacting Material’ edited by Jan Peter Wingender is out. As visiting professor at the Amsterdam School of
>>>21 December 2015 – Last Wednesday the Rotterdam Architecture Price 2015 was awarded. My ‘houses with two doors’ at Oranjeboomstraat were nominated for the price
>>>13 October 2015 – Chief editor of the magazine De Architect Harm Tilman went on a field trip together with my friends Floris Cornelisse, Job
>>>8 October 2015 – Alderman Joris Wijsmuller led the ground breaking ceremony of the second phase of my Kloosterbuuren project by drilling the ‘first pile’
>>>16 July 2015 – On 7 August I will be flying with Jan van Grunsven and Wouter Veldhuis to London to chair a panel
>>>3 August 2015 – The renovation of the Splayed Apartment Blocks in Ommoord feature in a special edition of The Architect’s Journal: Exemplary Housing Estate
>>>25 June 2015 – In the newspaper De Volkskrant of today Kirsten Hannema gives four stars to the ‘social mansions’ at Oranjeboomstraat. She wrote a
>>>21 mei 2015 – Vorige jaar rond deze tijd keken collega-architect Reimar von Meding en ik elkaar aan bij een docentenlunch op de Rotterdamse Academie
>>>6 May 2015 – I have just presented the preliminary design of the housing at Churchillpark in Leiden to the Design Review Committee. The project
>>>25 February 2015 – My Architecture Yearbook-collegue Tom Avermaete has organised a debate on the significance of such a book. Participants are the editors of
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