Ideas Competition

Jury panel

Liesbeth van de Pol

Chair, Chief Government Architect, The Netherlands

Liesbeth van der Pol, graduated with honours from the TU Delft in 1988, is Chief Government Architect since 15 August 2008. In 1989 she established her own office; in 1995 she set up Atelier Zeinstra van der Pol jointly with her partner Herman Zeinstra. The practice expanded rapidly and gained a reputation with a wide variety of projects, including housing and cultural and industrial buildings. Atelier Zeinstra van der Pol and Blue Architects merged to become DOK architects in 2007. In her search for the character of the buildings she uses water colour drawings and sketches to bring out the core of the designs. Van der Pol has been and is attached as a guest lecturer to various universities and academies, and she has served on numerous juries. She is the head of Man and Public Space at the Eindhoven Design Academy and participates regularly as a guest speaker in lectures, debates, conferences and workshops. In 1992 Van der Pol received the Charlotte Köhler Prize for architecture from the Prince Bernhard Fund and in 1993 she was awarded the Maaskant prize for young architects in Rotterdam.

Mark Wigley

Architect, Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School, USA

The New-Zealand-born architect and dean of Colombia University, has international fame and is well known in Holland, for his cooperation with Rem Koolhaas and Ole Bouman, with whom he founded Volume Magazine. Wigley wrote many books, amongst others "The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida’s Haunt" (1993), "White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture" (1995), and "Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire" (1998). Wigley co-edited "The Activist Drawing: Situationist Architectures from Constant’s New Babylon to Beyond" (2001). Wigley was awarded the Resident Fellowship, Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism (1989), the Triennial Award for Architectural Criticism (1990) and the Graham Foundation Grant (1997).

Rahul Mehrotra

Architect, Professor Department of Architecture MIT, USA

Rahul Mehrotra studied at the School of Architecture, Ahmedabad and at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. Before being appointed as associate professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mehrotra has taught at The National University of Singapore, (1998). With his office, Rahul Mehrotra Associates, he designed projects ranging from interior design and architecture to urban design, conservation and planning. The Indian-based architect is actively involved with urban conservation projects in the city of Bombay. Mehrotra is also author of several books on Bombay and has written extensively on architecture, urban design and planning in India. From 1994 Mehrotra has been the executive director of the Urban Design Research Institute in Bombay, which promotes research on the city and urban planning policy. Since 1996 Rahul Mehrotra is member of the Board of Governors of the Metropolitan Regional Development Authority's Heritage Society.

Yung Ho Chang

Architect, Professor and Head Department of Architecture MIT, USA

The Beijing-born architect, lecturer and Head of Department of Architecture MIT USA, Yung Ho Chang, is called of the world's most closely watched Chinese architects. Chang has received degrees in environmental design and architecture from U.S. colleges including the University of California, Berkeley. Atelier FCJZ (translated: ‘unusual architecture’) is the first private architectural firm in China, established by Ho Chang in 1993. Projects of the agency range from private residences to large- and small-scale museums, government buildings, urban planning projects, as well as installations at the Venice Biennale and Centre Pompidou in Paris and experimentation in furniture and graphic design. The Graduate Centre of Architecture at Peking University (1999) is one of Changs many projects. Yung Ho Chang was awarded the 2000 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts. Except for his lectures at several schools in the USA Yung Ho Chang held the Kenzo Tange Chair at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.

Herman Hertzberger

Architect, Emeritus Professor TU Delft, The Netherlands

Emeritus professor at TU Delft, Herman Hertzberger is a Dutch architect, who studied at TU Delft, where he graduated in 1958. After his study he established his own agency and joined the editorial team of Forum magazine. Hertzberger lectured at several institutes in Europe the U.S. and Canada. Amongst his designs are various theatres like the Chassé theatre in Breda, and schools. One of his most famous designs is the office building ‘Centraal Beheer’ in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands.

Kees Kaan

Architect, Professor TU Delft, The Netherlands

Kees Kaan graduated at TU Delft in 1987. He has been a practice professor of Architectural Design at the Faculty Of Architecture at TU Delft since 2006. Kaan works as an architect at Claus en Kaan Architecten, established in 1987. Among his designs are the new building of the Netherlands Forensic Institute in The Hague, the city offices in Breda and the Dutch embassy in Mozambique. In 2005 he received the Lensvelt De Architect Interieurprijs and his firm recently won the competition for the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Granada in Spain. At present, he occupies the position of member of the board of the Stichting Architectuur Instituut Rotterdam (foundation).

Ole Bouman

Director of NAi, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

As director of NAI, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Ole Bouman runs the sceptre over the largest architecture institute and museum in the world. Before joining the Nai, Bouman was chief editor of Volume magazine and CEO of Archis magazine. As an author he published the 'The Invisible in Architecture' (2004) and 'De Strijd om Tijd' (2003). As a curator he made exhibitions for Manifesta 3 and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. As a teacher Ole Bouman lectured at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and other famous universities.

Wytze Patijn

Architect, Dean of Faculty of Architecture TU Delft, The Netherlands

Wytze Patijn, dean of the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft since 2006, studied architecture at TU Delft and graduated in 1976. After his studies he worked as an architect in the field of social housing and urban renewal at the municipality of Rotterdam until 1987 and realised several experimental housing projects. In 1987 he started his own firm and realised important projects such as the restoration of the Kiefhoek (J.J.P. Oud) in Rotterdam, the reconstruction of Mercatorplein (J.P. Berlage) in Amsterdam, the Water Filtration Plan in Rotterdam, and the entrance hall of the Academic Hospital in Groningen. Between 1993 and 1995 he was professor of Architectonic Design at the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft. In his capacity of Chief Government Architect (1995-2000) he was the independent primary advisor to the Ministry of Housing, Planning and the Environment for all important new governmental buildings and restoration projects, and the general advisor to the governmental policy on architecture. In 1998 he became next to Ashok Bhalotra director of Kuiper Compagnons, office for urban planning and architecture in Rotterdam en Arnhem, the Netherlands. He was a member of several juries for architectural competitions and did workshops on urban design in the Netherlands and abroad.

Leanne Reynen

Student Faculty of Architecture TU Delft, The Netherlands

Master student architecture, urbanism and building sciences at TU Delft, Leanne Reijnen, has been working on the redesigning of the ‘Lijnbaankwartier’ in Rotterdam. In 2008 she will graduate in the urbanism track. In her role as chairwomen of the ‘Facultaire studentenraad’ of Bouwkunde she was a member of the crisis team, formed after the fire.

Herma de Wijn

Secretary, Architect, The Netherlands

Herma de Wijn, secretary of the jury, studied architecture, and graduated in the restoration track at TU Delft in 1975. She worked as designer on urban conservation and planning and was deputy Chief Government Architect until 2007. She is advisor on architecture at the Netherlands Board for Healthcare Institutions, on European tender procedures on the selection of architects and member of several supervision teams on the appearance of buildings,