Kees Christiaanse

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Kees Christiaanse (2011)

Kees Christiaanse (* 1953 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch architect and professor emeritus for architecture and urban planning at the ETH Zurich .

Education and activity

Christiaanse studied architecture at the Technical University of Delft together with Art Zaaijer, with whom he realized the Kavel 25 project in The Hague from 1989 to 1992 as a diploma thesis. This order not only included the residential building with 44 residential units for social housing , but also the urban planning framework. For this work he was awarded the Dutch architecture prize Berlage Vlag in 1991 .

In 1988 Christiaanse completed his studies in Delft with a diploma in architecture and became a partner in the office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam, where he had worked since 1980. In 1989 he became self-employed and founded the Kees Christiaanse Architects & Planners (KCAP) office in Rotterdam, one year later together with Peter Berner, Oliver Hall and Markus Neppl ASTOC Architects & Planners in Cologne (since 2003 GmbH & Co. KG).

With his offices he is primarily concerned with planning tasks in architecture and urban development and works for public and private clients.

From 1993 to 1996 he was the design director of the Dutch state building department in The Hague.

In 1996 he was appointed professor for architecture and urban planning at the TU Berlin . He held the chair until 2003 when he accepted the chair for architecture and urban development at the ETH Zurich .

In 2009 he was curator of the Internationale Architectuur Biënnale Rotterdam (IABR) . From mid-2012, until the work was stopped, he was one of the six members of the IBA Berlin 2020 Board of Trustees .

Project selection

  • 1994–1997, GWL-terrein Amsterdam : Master plan and supervision for an ecological and car-free quarter with 600 apartments, senior and disabled residential groups , studio apartments and a neighborhood center
  • 1994 – today, Holzhafen Hamburg : First prize in the competition and execution of the East Office and the residential tower
  • 1996–2002, Stadstuinen Rotterdam : 600 apartments, senior citizens' housing complex , office and commercial space, parking spaces
  • 1996–2000: Emerald residential building, Delft : 60 apartments, shopping center and parking spaces; Senior housing complex, medical facilities and commercial spaces
  • 1997–2002, Breevaarthoek Gouda : 25 apartments and 28 single-family houses on the Reeuwijk lakes
  • 1998 – today, Noorderplassen West, Almere : Master plan for a residential and recreational area with 3,000 residential units surrounded by lakes and forests
  • 1998 – today, Pakhuizen Compartment C, Oostelijke Handelskade, Amsterdam : master plan, design of office building, residential building and a garage with 450 parking spaces
  • 1999 – today, Fountainhead, Borneo Sporenburg, Amsterdam : Residential building with 97 loft apartments with additional urban use (swimming pool, exhibition rooms) and 229 parking spaces
  • 1999 – today, Amstel III plot 206A, Amsterdam : urban planning design and supervision for 120,000 m² offices; Design of an urban deck and a garage with 1400 spaces, design of a bridge
  • 1999 – today, Hafen City, Hamburg : First prize in the competition, elaboration of the master plan for 5,000 apartments and 20,000 workplaces on an area of ​​155 hectares, function plan Dalmannkai
  • 2000, Christiania-Bjorvika, Oslo : Urban planning study for a new district on the waterfront of Oslo on an area of ​​45 ha with 100,000 apartments, urban functions and the development of a train station for public transport
  • 2000 – today, Science Park, University of Amsterdam : Master plan, supervision and design of the public space for a new science park with 100,000 m² of classrooms, 320,000 m² of offices, congress facilities and 660 apartments
  • 2001 – today, Eindhoven Airport : Master plan, design of an airport terminal with plaza, hotel, commercial space and parking spaces
  • 2005, building for a branch of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed in Lelystad
  • 2007, so-called city ​​balcony , station forecourt in Groningen
  • 2009, “The Red Apple” in Rotterdam, multifunctional high-rise
  • 2010 – today, Zalmhaven Complex in Rotterdam, building project with luxury apartments and shops

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1997 Germany-Netherlands, Aedes Gallery, Berlin
  • 2003–2004 traveling exhibition The City as Loft . Various collective exhibitions in Germany and the Netherlands

Publications (selection)

  • Situation , Basel: Birkhäuser, 2005
  • Suburbia in Holland Berlin: TU, University Library, 1997,
  • OMA , Berlin: Aedes, Gallery for Architecture a. Space, 1981

Web links

Commons : Kees Christiaanse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Videos

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ christiaanse | Kees Christiaanse's retirement in summer 2018. Accessed March 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ (nl) Architectuur: Woongebouw Kavel 25 , on architectuur.org
  3. ↑ (en, nl) Kees Christiaanse - curator 4th IABR: Open City , on iabr.nl
  4. ^ The IBA Board of Trustees , archive: IBA Berlin 2020 - Documentation of the preliminary work , Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing , on stadtentwicklung.berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Christiaanse, Kees
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch architect and professor for architecture and urban planning at the ETH Zurich
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam