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November 9, 2005

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Kempe and Thill dispel the myth
On Friday October 28 the Rotterdam Maaskant Prize for Young Architects 2005 was presented to Oliver Thill, one of the two architects who head up the Rotterdam-based ‘expat’ office Atelier Kempe Thill. In this interview they dispel the myth that the Netherlands offers a favourable climate for young architects.
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‘André was born in 1968, I in 1971 – that’s why.’ This is prize-winner Oliver Thill’s laconic reply to the suggestion that statutory reasons alone meant that the Maaskant Prize was awarded to him personally – winners must be aged 35 yea…

April 2, 2004

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Elusive Identity
The exhibition YIBANEH! Jewish Identity in Contemporary Architecture opened in Amsterdam a fortnight ago. The title (Hebrew for ‘it will be built’) refers to the numerous Jewish institutions built in recent years, from the late twentieth century till the present day. The subtitle refers to identity, a concept whose meaning is not easy to pinpoint.
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The first architect mentioned by name in the history books - as we learn in architecture classes - is Daedalus. He it was who designed the labyrinth for King Minos in Crete (1700-1400 BC). Yet there is another candidate: Bezalel B…

March 2, 2003

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Architecture with a flavour
Last Monday Erick van Egeraat gave a lecture on landscape and architecture in Theater Het Oude Raadhuis in Hoofddorp. In attendance at the lecture, organised by the Podium for Architecture in the municipality of Haarlemmermeer, were both architects and others from outside the profession. Reason enough, therefore, for Erick van Egeraat to outline in somewhat populist yet certainly flamboyant style his views on architecture and landscape as a ‘big impact on a small scale’.
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Architecture with a flavour The first part of his lecture focused on what makes architecture 'good'. For Van Egeraat it is precisely the unnecessary accessories and decorative elements that give architecture its particular flav…