2011

may 27th Crimson celebrated the casco opening of the MINI MALL in the former Station Hofplein in Rotterdam

february 3 lecture Wouter Vanstiphout at the Architectural Association, London

Wouter Vanstiphout hoogleraar Ontwerp en Politiek

director International New Town Institute

general management for Hofbogen BV (de Hofbogen)



2010

Inauguration speech Wouter Vanstiphout, june 9, 2010 - 15.00: Aula, TU Delft

cultural & historical analysis "De Constant Rebecque Kazerne, Cultuurhistorische analyse van de kazerne als stedenbouwkundig ensemble".

Wouter Vanstiphout hoogleraar Ontwerp en Politiek

director International New Town Institute

general management for Hofbogen BV (de Hofbogen)



2009

22 october: Wouter Vanstiphout hoogleraar Ontwerp en Politiek.

9 october / 7 february 2010: Exhibition ’Insiders - practices, customs, know-how’, Bordeaux, France. WiMBY!

7 october: Michelle Provoost in Conversation with Lars Lerup at the Berlage Institute.

25 september / 10 january 2010: Exhibition ’4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam: Designing Coexistence’, Rotterdam

16 june: lecture Michelle Provoost, New Towns from the Cold War Era to Neoliberal Reality, Berlage Institute, Rotterdam

17-27 may: New Town excursion to Caracas and Ciudad Guyana, Venezuela

5 march: Symposium Open City; Designing Coexistence, ETH Zurich

8-17 februari: New Town excursion to Beijing, China

director International New Town Institute

Subcurator Rotterdamse Architectuur Biennale 2009

general management for Hofbogen BV (de Hofbogen)



2008

21 & 22 november: Lecture by Michelle Provoost on ’New Towns on the Cold War Frontier; urban planning as an instrument in cold war politics’ at the conference ’Cold War Culture’

Michelle Provoost director International New Town Institute

publication Het langste gebouw van Rotterdam, Toekomstvisie De Hofbogen, Crimson, de Hofbogen, 4 october 2008

Part of the content-team for the World Expo 2010 Shanghai

Subcurator Rotterdamse Architectuur Biennale 2009

19 june: Presentation of the Vlaams Architectuurjaarboek 2008 in Brussel

’WiMBY! Hoogvliet, Future, Past and Present of a Satellite Town: or the big WiMBY! book’ on the RIBA International Book Award for Architectural Practice Long List

Elke zaterdag van 19 april - 21 juni bij de AVRO om 17.00 het programma Architecturen, over scholen, bedrijfsterreinen, particulier opdrachtgeverschap, hergebruik, creatieve stad en duurzaamheid. Commentatoren o.a. Mels Crouwel en Michelle Provoost.

14 april: Lecture by Michelle Provoost about WiMBY! in Copenhagen, Denmark. ’WIMBY! - WELCOME INTO MY BACKYARD’. Copenhagen X

(with D. Bakker, A. Jolles, C. Wagenaar, ed.), Jaarboek van de Nederlands Architectuur 2007/2008, Yearbook of Dutch Architecture, Rotterdam 2008

21 februari: Lecture by Michelle Provoost about WiMBY! in London at the New New Towns congres. ’What the past can teach the future’, organised by the Architecture Foundation and Urban Drift. See: www.newnewtown.com, Building Design

17 february to 27 april: exhibit ’Shrinking Cities. International Investigation’, Duisburg, Germany

general management for Hofbogen BV (de Hofbogen)

project Sociologica; Een simpele strategie voor vernieuwing van de Afrikaanderwijk. Commissioned by Vestia and Estrade



2007

15 december lecture by Michelle Provoost about WiMBY! in the Smart Project Space in Amsterdam for the symposium Forward! On the revitalization of modern architecture. See: www.archined.nl

14 december Michelle Provoost public talk with André van der Zande about WiMBY! for the Belvederedebat, NAi, Rotterdam

1 november interview by Michelle Provoost and Eric Luiten of Elma van Boxel, Michael van Gessel, Frits van Dongen, Jos van Eldonk, Floris Alkemade and Endry van Velzen for the Belvederefestival, Den Bosch

25 october CRIMSON moves to a new office: Mathenesserlaan 179-181, 3014 HA Rotterdam, The Netherlands

article ’Een dubbele Tabula Rasa. Heesterveld, Ymere, het NAi en de Bijlmerrmeer’, 18 october

15 october/16 october - VPRO, Tegenlicht: ‘Het nieuwe bouwen. De WiMBY-methode’, ma. 15 okt 20.55 uur / di. 16 okt 23.30 uur | Nederland 2

article ’The New Town: voorstel voor een architectuurhistorisch project’, 15 oktober 2007 VPRO

13 october introduction to film ’Many words for modern’, a film by Jord den Hollander, Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam

member of the board of the Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur

member of the jury of the Charlotte Köhler prize

column ’Rotterdam Architectuurstad?’ in: Huig, tijdschrift van de Academie van Bouwkunst Rotterdam, nr.8, september 2007, p.40-41

research trip to Ghana (Tema) as part of the New Town project, in co-operation with filmer Jord den Hollander, sept. 2007

column ’Nieuwe stedenbouw voor u’ in: A+, Belgisch tijdschrift voor architectuur, nr.206, juni-juli 2007, p.26

notitie cultuurhistorische waarde W-Hal, TU/e, 27 may 2007

publication WiMBY! Hoogvliet, Toekomst, Verleden en Heden van een New Town, of: het grote WiMBY! boek / WiMBY! Future, past and present of a New Town, Crimson and Felix Rottenberg, NAi Publishers, 25 may 2007

publication De lessen van WiMBY! 2001-2007. Over acupunctuur in Hoogvliet, of: Het kleine WiMBY! boek, Crimson and Felix Rottenberg, WiMBY!, 25 may 2007

exhibition ’WiMBY!’, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, May 25 - August 19 2007

general management for Hofbogen BV (de Hofbogen)

projectleaders for WiMBY!, the International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, (www.wimby.nl)

article ’Absolute Beginner’, Gaudi Anthology of Architectural Criticism, Brussels

article ’New Towns on the Cold War Frontier’, Arch+, May 2007

article Continuer Hoogvliet, Lí Architecture, May 2007

column ’Alles komt goed’ in: A+, Belgisch tijdschrift voor architectuur, nr.205, april-mei 2007, p.26

NPS Arena over Jaarboek Nederlandse Architectuur, April 22 2007

article ’Almere New Town’ in: S. Franke (red.), Adolescent Almere, 2007

(with D. Bakker, A. Jolles, C. Wagenaar, ed.), Jaarboek van de Nederlands Architectuur 2006/2007, Yearbook of Dutch Architecture, Rotterdam 2007

article ’Fanmail’, in: Artvertising, Sandberg Institute Amsterdam, 2007

article ’New Towns on the Cold War Frontier’, vertaling in Litouws literatuur- en cultuurtijdschrift

exhibition ’Holland-Italy, 10 works of architecture’, Maxxi, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy, May 18 - July 1 2007

cultural & historical analysis of postwar railway stations in The Netherlands, ’De Collectie, Cultuur-historische visie naoorlogse stationsgebouwen’, commissioned by Bureau Spoorbouwmeester, maart 2007

TV Rijnmond over Architectuurjaar/Lijnbaan

Radio 1 Journaal over Architectuurjaar Rotterdam, January 18 2007

NOS Journaal over Architectuurjaar, January 13 2007

article ’Wijlen de Lijnbaan/Lijnbaan R.I.P.’, www.Archined.nl, Januari 10 2007

member of the Rotterdamse Raad voor Kunst en Cultuur

member of Quality Team for Architecture and Urbanism, Port of Rotterdam, (with Adriaan Geuze & Jan Benthem)

researchproject The New Town, (www.thenewtown.nl)

article ’Sade, Fourier, van Lieshout?’ in: Atelier Van Lieshout, Rotterdam 2007

column ’We, the people’ in: Huig, tijdschriftvan de Academie van Bouwkunst Rotterdam, nr.7, januari 2007, p.70-71



2006

projectleaders for WiMBY!, the International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, (www.wimby.nl)

projectleader for de Hofbogen

Member of the Rotterdamse Raad voor Kunst en Cultuur

architectural & development concept ’Building better & cheaper’, with Maxwan Architects & Urbanisms, commissioned by Housing Corporation Vista

AT5 over historiserende architectuur

lecture at Sandberg Institute Amsterdam on Artvertising and Architecture

lecture Hugh Maaskant at the Academy of Architecture, Rotterdam

column in the Masterclass ’De stad gaat door’, Academy of Architecture Rotterdam

podcast: ’op bezoek bij Wimby’, waarin KAN-voorzitter Jaap Modder, op initiatief van de programmakers van Ruimte!, Michelle Provoost van Wimby! interviewt, 7 juli 2006 / 11 juli 2006 / 16 juli 2006

article ’New towns on the Cold War frontier’, 2006-06-28 Eurozine

lecture ’New Towns’ at opening congress of the International New Towns Institute, Almere

(with D. Bakker, A. Jolles, C. Wagenaar, ed.), Jaarboek van de Nederlands Architectuur 2005/2006, Yearbook of Dutch Architecture, Rotterdam 2006

lecture at the congress Shared Histories: Decolonising the Image, University of Amsterdam, ’New Towns in the developing world: emancipation-machines between nation building and Cold War-politics’.

exhibition ’Het Geheugen van de Stad’ (The Memory of the City), Technical University Delft

lecture at the DSD TU Delft, ’How to Survive the Twentieth Century: Recent Works on the Postwar City by Crimson Architectural Historians’

lecture at Harvard GSD, ’How to Survive the Twentieth Century: Recent Works by Crimson Architectural Historians’.

critic at MIT Studio Monuments for Passaic, by Alexander d’Hooghe

lecture at Harvard GSD, PhD students Group.

researchproject The New Town, (www.thenewtown.nl)

Docomomo Newsletter

article Facts on the Ground, Harvard Design Magazine

Danish Lettre Internationale

article ’Facts on the Ground, Urbanism Mid-Road to Ditch’, Harvard Design Magazine, Cambridge (Ma.)

article ’Slopen bouwen slopen’, de Groene Amsterdammer, 20 januari 2006

Member of Staff Academy of Architecture Rotterdam (www.avbr.nl)



2005

Member of the Rotterdamse Raad voor Kunst en Cultuur

projectleaders for WiMBY!, the International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, (www.wimby.nl)

Visiting Scholar at Harvard Graduate School of Design, sept 2005-april 2006, working on Crimsons researchproject The New Town

researchproject The New Town, (www.thenewtown.nl)

article The New Town. Proposal for a Researchproject in: Liber Amicorum for Ed Taverne ’Huizen voor nieuwe Hoogvlieters’, in Architectuur Lokaal september 2005

article ‘Happy Hoogvliet’ in Shrinking Cities book

publication Maak een stad. Rotterdam en de architectuur van J.H. van den Broek, Crimson, Wouter Vanstiphout, 010 publishers, 16 june 2005

cultural & historical analysis of the RDM factories, commissioned by the Department of landmark preservation, municipality of Rotterdam, february 2005

article ’Teherans Lost Civilization’, Stadt Bauwelt, Berlijn, Germany

Member of Staff Academy of Architecture Rotterdam (www.avbr.nl)



2004

cultuurhistorische verkenning van het Lijnbaan ensemble, De Lijnbaan, december 2004

projectleaders for WiMBY!, the International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, (www.wimby.nl)

Member of Staff Academy of Architecture Rotterdam (www.avbr.nl)

article ‘C60, C90, C00, Go! Plans for the New Recession by Crimson Architectural Historians’, in: UM Urban Mutations, congresbundle Arhus School of Architecture, Arhus 2004

website www.avbr.nl, Academy of Architecture Rotterdam

researchproject The New Town, (www.thenewtown.nl)

website www.wimby.nl, International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, WiMBY! and Campus Hoogvliet website www.wimby.nl/campus

exhibition ’Onderonsje’ De Strip, Vitrine ’Until we meet again’, Westwijk, Vlaardingen, 13 december 2003 / 7 march 2004

Member of Jury Charlotte Köhlerprijs

article ‘Happy Hoogvliet’, in: Cor Wagenaar (red.), Happy, Rotterdam 2004

Member of ’Programmaraad AIR’, Architectuur Instituut Rotterdam

project Lijn 6, stedenbouwkundig ontwerp voor Tramlijn 6 als een stadsstraat, Den Haag, with: Verena Balz, commissioned by: VELOV (Verdichten Langs Openbaar Vervoer Lijnen), Den Haag

as of August 2004 founding member Ernst van der Hoeven has started an independent design and consultancy practice based in Amsterdam.



2003

projectleaders for the International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, WiMBY!, (www.wimby.nl)

Member of Staff Academy of Architecture Rotterdam (www.avbr.nl)

Website www.avbr.nl, Academy of Architecture Rotterdam

Website www.wimby.nl, International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, WiMBY!

Article ’Vernacular Spectacular’, in: Alex de Vries (red.), NEO, Centraal Museum, Utrecht

Lecture ’Vernacular Spectacular’, at: Exd Masterclasses, Design Biennale, Lissabon, Portugal / Collegi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spanje / Berlage Institute, Rotterdam

Studio with Rients Dijkstra at SCI-ARC, Los Angeles, USA

Contribution to the Gerrichhausen Congres ‘Het genot van het doen’, Dordrecht

publication Hugh Maaskant. Architect van de vooruitgang, Monography on the architect H.A. Maaskant, Uitgeverij 010

Lecture ‘Pressure on space: how use and renewal go hand in hand’, congres ’Cities & Markets, shifts in urban development’, IFHP, Vianna, Austria

Article ’Dwelling Richness’, in: M. Stadler (red.), The Clear Cut Future, Seattle, (WA), U.S.A.

Filmed interview about ’mobiliteit en stedenbouw’ for the exhibition ‘Motopia’, part of the first Architectuurbiënnale Rotterdam, NAi

Research, editing and text contribution to the Rotterdam Pavilion in the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam

exhibition ’La ciudad radiante’ (The Radiant City), Valencia, Spain, june 5 - august 31

Exhibition ’Onderonsje’ De Strip, Vitrine ’Until we meet again’, Westwijk, Vlaardingen, 13 december 2003 / 7 march 2004

publication Profession: Architect. de Architekten Cie., Rotterdam, 010 publishers

Lecture ’WiMBY!’ for the project ‘At Home in the City’, Gallowgate, Glasgow, organisation: the Lighthouse

Article ‘Scholen als consumptieartikel. Industrieel en flexibel bouwen tijdens de wederopbouw’, in: SchoolParasites. Nieuwe noodlokalen voor naoorlogs Nederland, Rotterdam 2003



2002

projectleaders for the International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, WiMBY!, (www.wimby.nl)

Member of Staff Academy of Architecture Rotterdam (www.avbr.nl)

lecture School of Architecture, Aarhus, Denmark

website www.avbr.nl, Academy of Architecture Rotterdam

website www.wimby.nl, International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, WiMBY!

nomination ’ISOC Award’ for website www.wimby.nl, International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, WiMBY!

award ’Rotterdam-Maaskant Prize for Young Architects’

’250 Huizen’, part of the WiMBY project.

publication Too Blessed to be Depressed, Crimson 1994-2002, Rotterdam, 010 publishers, 2002

lecture ’Too Blessed to be Depressed’, at: École d’Architecture, Marne la Vallée, Frankrijk / Societé Francaise des Architectes, Parijs, Frankrijk

exhibition ’Moving Landscapes, il paesaggio contemporaneo – arte e architecttura nei Paesi Bassi’, Rome, Italy

article ‘Crimson’, in: L. Benedetti and M. Van Rooy (red.), Moving Landscapes, il paesaggio contemporaneo – arte e architecttura nei Paesi Bassi, Rome 2002

article ’Crimson und Lila, Rede zur Verleihung des Maaskant-Preis 2002’, Arch +, Berlijn, Duitsland

article ’De puinhopen van acht jaar Crimson’, in: De Witte Raaf, België

article (with Gerard Hadders) ’Dwelling Richness’, in: Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 2002

introductory essay and editorship of 11ha, Het Storkterrein in Amsterdam verkend door kunstenaars en onderzoekers, Stichting WerkSpoor/De Balie Publishers, Amsterdam 2002



2001

projectleaders for WiMBY!, the International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, www.wimby.nl

exhibition and publication Post.Rotterdam, Architecture and City after the tabula rasa, Porto (Portugal), with: Pedro Gadanho, commissioned by: Porto 2001. Post. Rotterdam. Architecture and City after the tabula rasa, 010 publishers, Rotterdam/Porto 2001

Organisation of national debate on future of landscape heritage ‘Belvedere’, NAi Rotterdam

Lecture ’Too Blessed to be Depressed’, at: Steierische Herbst, Graz, Oostenrijk / Academie voor kunst en architectuur, Wenen, Oostenrijk / conference Performing the City, Porto, cultural city 2001, Portugal

Infrastructure studio, Academy of Architecture Rotterdam, with: Peter Trummer and Astrid Piber

Website www.avbr.nl, Academy of Architecture Rotterdam

Visual Communication Studio Hoogvliet/Delhi, Post Graduate School for Graphic Design Breda, with Gerard Hadders

Lecture ’WiMBY!’, IFHP congres, Rotterdam

Series of essays on contemporary architecture and urbanism for Newspaper BN/De Stem

Concept for Rotterdam architecture biennial ‘Take A Stand’.

Lecture Architecture Conference Tromsö, Norway

Architecture and Urban Planning Studio, MRD Program, Southern California Institute for Architecture, Los Angeles, California, with: Rients Dijkstra, Michael Speaks & Minke Themans

ThinkTank ‘ Creative Cities’, for Ministry of Housing, Planning and the Environment, The Hague



2000

projectleaders for the International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, WiMBY! (www.wimby.nl)

teacher at the Metropolitan Research + Design Program, Southern California institute for Arhcitecture

publication WiMBY! Welcome into My Backyard!, International Building Exhibition Rotterdam-Hoogvliet, for the International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, NAi publishers, Rotterdam 2000

urban design for the Kunstberg/ Mont des Arts Brussel/Bruxelles, commissioned by Brussel/Bruxelles 2000, with Max 1.

contribution to symposium ‘Dag van IJburg’, Amsterdam

exhibition ‘Big Soft Orange’, Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio, Verenigde Staten

lecture ’WiMBY! & Mart Stam’s Trousers’, ETH Basel, Switzerland

lecture ’WiMBY!’, Linz, Oostenrijk

lecture Habitat conference Buenos Aires, Argentinïe

workshop and lectures, DiTella Insititute, Buenos Aires, Argentina

publication Ruimtelijke Ordening als deel van het Cultuurbeleid, Ministerie voor Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschappen, Den Haag

exhibition ‘The Stadium. The Architecture of Mass Sports’, NAi Rotterdam

publication Het Stadion. De architectuur van massasport, NAi publishers, Rotterdam 2000

collage, ‘The Stadium. The architecture of Mass Sports’ on southwall of the Netherlands Architecture Institute Rotterdam



1999

publication Mart Stam’s Trousers. Stories from behind the scenes of Dutch Moral Modernism, with Michael Speaks en Gerard Hadders, 010 Publishers

exhibition ‘What If?’ in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

exhibition ‘Big Soft Orange’ in: Storefront Gallery/Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, New York City; Sci-Arc, Los Angeles; CCCA, San Francisco

contribution to the manifestation ‘Mobiliteit als uitdaging’ (Mobility as a challenge), Erasmus Universiteit, with Jaap Modder, director NIROV

Member of the Quality Team for Leidsche Rijn

educational project ‘De Stad’ (the city), at the Postgraduate School for Graphic Design, Breda

design for ’Straatbrug Fina’, Vlaardingen Westwijk

lectures at the Academy for Architecture on ‘Infrastructure and the City’

coaching graduate students TU Delft, TU Eindhoven and several Academies

Member of the jury for the EO Wijers competition

Member of the jury Rietveld award Utrecht

urban design for the ’Leuvehaven’, commissioned by Wijkontwikkelings Maatschappij, Maritiem Museum and Maritiem Buitenmuseum

architectural design for ’stairs’ in Leuvehaven, commissioned by Maritiem Buitenmuseum Rotterdam

atelier Stedelijk Realisme (Urban realism) at the Academy for Visual Arts in Arnhem

contribution and publication for workshop Maasvlakte II

lecture ’WiMBY! & Mart Stam’s Trousers’ and workshop, Academy for architecture, Oslo, Norway

lecture ’Mart Stam’s Trousers’, Form Zero Gallery & bookstore, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

lecture ’Big Soft Orange’, California Center for Architecture, San Francisco, U.S.A.

educational project ‘Urban Sprawl’, at the Southern California Institute for Architecture

contribution to the project Ruimtelijke kwaliteit Corridorontwikkeling (Urban quality of infrastructural corridors), commissioned by INCODELTA

‘Bleeding Pages’, with Chris Dercon, Metropolis M

teacher Postgraduate School for Graphic Design, Academy St.Joost Breda

article ’Hot AIR’, Archis 1999 nr.1

exhibition ‘Dutchtown’, NAi Rotterdam

publication (with Bernard Colenbrander and Floris Alkemade) Dutchtown. O.M.A.’s meesterproef in Almere, NAi publishers, Rotterdam 1999



1998

publication Media & Architecture, publication following the Leon Kiers Master Class organised by the Berlage Instituut Amsterdam and the VPRO

article ‘Wilde Wonen’, research on the role of governemental planning in housing, commissioned by ERA Bouw and with the Architecten Cie., and article in publication with the same name, 010 Publishers, 1998

historical research on the industrial area Spaanse Polder for the project ’Haven- & Industriegebieden’, comissioned by the Stichting Comité Wederopbouw Rotterdam

article ’De regie van de stad’, Archis 1998 nr.3, 64-65

educational project aan de Academie for Visual Arts in Arnhem, department Monumental Arts

article ’Glad & schoon’, in: Panorama Nederland, boekenweekmagazine 1998

project ’Rose’, research project commissioned by dS+V, department Monuments, with Camp & Kamphuis

project ’Noordsingel’, design for a new use of the jail at the Noordsingel in Rotterdam, commissioned by theWijk Ontwikkelings Maatschappij

competition design for Valkenburg Ondergronds, with Max 1

‘Toyota Home’, educational project at the Berlage Instituut Amsterdam, with Max 1 and NL-Architects

contribution to ’Symposium over de nuloptie’, Vleeshal, Middelburg

article ’Achteruit is vooruit’, in: catalogus Vleeshal Middelburg, 1998

travelling exhibition ’Big Soft Orange’ with Max 1, One Architecture and NL Architects in Yale School of Art and Architecture

lecture ’Big Soft Orange’, at: Faculty of Architecture, Yale University, New Haven (conn.) / Storefront Gallery, New York (NY)

lecture ’Org Wars’, Berlage Institute, Amsterdam

lecture ’Crimson Architectural Historians, Recent Work’, Architectural Association, London, England

article ’De stedelijkheid van de snelwegzone’, in: Werkdocument Muizengaatje/Poort van Noord i.o.v. Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam, 1998

article ’Groot en groots’ in: 25 jaar Rotterdam-Maaskantstichting, Rotterdam 1998

article ’Rockbottom, OMA builds house in Bordeaux’, in: Harvard Design Magazine, Summer 1998, no. 5

article ’Nieuwe stedelijkheid in de snelwegzone. Het bestuur van de dertiende provincie van Nederland’, in: Socialisme en Democratie 1998

article ’Compacte stad. Openbaar vervoer en projectontwikkeling in Hong Kong’, Archis 1998 nr.6, 28-3

project ‘Bouwen tegen de buurt’, plan for the second urban renewal of Rotterdam, commissioned by the Dienst Stedebouw + Volkshuisvesting (phase 2)



1997

study for the Stationspostkantoor Rotterdam with architect Rob van Erk, for the project ’Ontwerpgericht onderzoek’, about new uses for reconstruction architecture in the centre of Rotterdam, commissioned by het Comité Wederopbouw

study for the PTT Telecomgebouw Rotterdam, with One Architecture, for the project ’Ontwerpgericht onderzoek’, commissioned by het Comité Wederopbouw

publication Re-Urb: Nieuwe Plannen voor Oude Steden (New plans for old cities), commissioned by Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur, 010 Publishers

article ’De dertiende provincie van Nederland’, de Volkskrant 16-8-1997

article ’Consensus Terrorism’, in: Harvard Design Magazine, summer 1997, no.2

urban concept for Historic Delfshaven, commissioned by de Wijk Ontwikkelings Maatschappij

project ‘Bouwen tegen de buurt’ (Orgwars), ontwikkelingsvisie voor de tweede stadsvernieuwing van Rotterdam, commissioned by de dienst Stedebouw + Volkshuisvesting Rotterdam (phase 1)

CD-ROM ‘Locatieboek’, an automated guide to municipal planning in the Rotterdam region

article ’Architectuur en consensus’, in: De Gids

article ’Havenstad Rotterdam’ / Rotterdam Harbour City, Archis 1997 nr.10, 8-23

Article ’Vies, Lekker en Direct’, Archis 1997

Article ’Das Educatorium, Hörsaalgebaüde auf dem Campus von Utrecht’, Bauwelt, Heft 43/44, 21 November 1997

Member of the editing board of the magazine Archis

Member of the Welstandscommissie Rotterdam

Member of the Welstandscommissie Amsterdam



1996

plan for the New Town Hoogvliet (Pdf 600 Kb), commissioned by de dienst Stedebouw + Volkshuisvesting Rotterdam

‘Dipping Delft’, scenario for the visual arts in public spaces, commissioned by evenementenbureau Delft 750 jaar Cultuurstad

CD-ROM ‘De Wederopbouwarchitectuur van Rotterdam’ (Architecture of the reconstruction period in Rotterdam, commissioned by de dienst Stedebouw + Volkshuisvesting Rotterdam

atelier ‘City of Flows’ met Winka Dubbeldam, Academie voor Bouwkunst Rotterdam en Groningen

article ’Black & Whiteness’, in: ANY Magazine, New York

lecture ’Black & Whiteness’, Soho Guggenheim Museum, New York

several contributions to the ‘Dizionario dell’Architettura Contemporanea’, edited by Carlo Olmo, Turijn

publication ASFALT, automobiliteit in Rotterdam (Automobility in Rotterdam, 010 Publishers

article ’Moerasandijvie, boomkikkers en paddentunnel’, Archis 1996 nr.7

workshop Coastwise Europe, in samenwerking met Matthijs Bouw

Member of the Welstandscommissie Rotterdam

article ’A Compulsion towards The Real’, in: Wiederhall, no.19, 1996

article ’Oh Heavens, Philip Johnson and the Dawning of the New’, in: Wiederhall, no.19, 1996



1995

Article (with Rients Dijkstra) ’30.000 huizen in Utrecht’, in: Archis 1995

Articles ’Massa en weerstand’ / ’Leegte’, and editing for the publication Vijftig jaar wederopbouw Rotterdam (Fifty years of reconstructing Rotterdam), commissioned by Dienst Stedebouw + Volkshuisvesting Rotterdam, 010 Publishers, mei 1995.

Publication Re-Arch. : nieuwe ontwerpen voor oude gebouwen (New designs for old buildings), commissioned by Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur, 010 Publishers, september 1995.

Article ’Een grand projet voor Nederland’, Archis 1995 nr.3

Interactive computerprogram ‘Wederopbouwarchitectuur Rotterdam’ (Architecture of the reconstruction Rotterdam), commissioned by de dienst Stedebouw + Volkshuisvesting Rotterdam

Publication (with Jan Duursma) Rotterdam-Moscow. Architectural Training at the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and the Moscow Architectural Institute, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 1995

Workshops en paneldiscussions within the manifestation ‘Rotterdam 2045’

Different articles for the publication: K. Bosma and C. Wagenaar, Een geruisloze doorbraak. De wederopbouw van Nederland, (The reconstruction of the Netherlands), NAi Uitgevers

Readers ‘Rotterdam-Maaskantprijs 1996’, commissioned by de stichting Rotterdam-Maaskant

Editors of the magazine ‘Wiederhall Architectural Serial’, with One Architecture, Pieter Feenstra and Donald van Dansik.



1994

Part of designteam for the VINEX-location Leidse Rijn, with Max2 architects .

Competition design for Cruise Terminal Yokohama, with One Architecture architects and Heerema Offshore Consultants.

’Au dela du polder neo-plastique’, text and contribution to the exhibition ’La Ville’, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.

Article ’Groothandelsgebouw; a work of genius and bureaucracy’, Bouw, november 1994

Article ’Generatiekloof’, Archis nr.10 1994

Article ’Hoe de Twintigste eeuw ook aan ons land niet voorbij ging’, in: Archis 1994



6 December 2011


The International New Town Institute will participate in different programmes during the 2011 Bi-City Architecture and Urbanism Biennale in Shenzhen, China, 8-11 December. >>

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  • Crimson is very proud to invite you to the festive opening weekend of the MINI MALL in the former Station Hofplein on Friday September 2nd and Saturday 3rd! >>

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    18 August 2011


    Wouter Vanstiphout
    Kieran Long; London Evening Standard
    "Riots always happen when cities consider themselves to be at a high point in terms of their urban development," says Dutch architectural historian Wouter Vanstiphout, speaking to me from his home in Rotterdam. "We’ve studied riots in every decade since the 1960s, and every time you can see that the officials of the city felt that on a planning level they were doing the most fantastic things." >>

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    11 August 2011


    Wouter Vanstiphout

    At the end of a week that has witnessed the UK’s worst scenes of civil unrest in decades, urban planning expert Wouter Vanstiphout reflects on what the violence may mean for the future of Britain’s cities.

    In November 2005 French President Jacques Chirac welcomed back normality, after weeks of riots in the French banlieues. Instead of 1,000 to 1,500 vehicles being burnt every night, it went back to 163, and then kept to the normal 50 to 150. Every night of the year dozens of cars are being set on fire in the French banlieues and this had been going on for years on end.

    What is normality to a French banlieue? It can mean that in the morning the elderly, women and children – and sometimes architects and historians looking for modernist housing projects from the sixties – can freely roam between the slabs and blocks, shop, play and look around...

    see the full article on Building Design Online:
    http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/analysis/back-to-normal?/5023012.article

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    15 June 2011

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  • Simone Rots
    ’Nieuw leven voor oude Hofbogen’, excursion through the Mini Mall by the director of the Hofbogen bv, Simone Rots

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    15 June 2011

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  • On May 27th Crimson celebrated the casco opening of the MINI MALL in the former Station Hofplein in Rotterdam (design PEÑA architecture and Afarai). The completion of the MINI MALL is part of the larger redevelopment project Hofbogen Crimson has been managing since 2007.

    The MINI MALL is situated in seven arched spaces (approximately 2500 m2) of the national monument the Hofbogen and the next couple of months will be turned into a mini shopping mall for creative entrepreneurs. The arches have been fully restored to their original monumental state and the existing interior has been completely stripped and rebuilt to accomodate the new MINI MALL. The future MINI MALL will include a (jazz) nightclub, restaurants, coffee bar and creative retail, all linked through a semi-public event space. The project will be festively opened in September 2011.

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    9 March 2011


    Wouter Vanstiphout

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    20 October 2010


    Wouter Vanstiphout
    A Lecture Series by the Chair of Design & Politics

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    15 October 2010


    Cultuurhistorische analyse van de kazerne als stedenbouwkundig ensemble
    ... aanleiding voor dit onderzoek was de verbouwing van het bestaande complex van de Constant Rebecque kazerne, een Rijksmonument, tot Internationale School Eindhoven. Vanwege het nieuw te realiseren programma, dat gedeeltelijk in het bestaande complex zou worden ondergebracht, en voor een deel nieuwbouw betreft, zou duidelijk moeten worden waarin de monumentale waarde van dit complex schuilt ... >>

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    23 September 2010

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  • Since 2007 Crimson Architectural Historians has been leading the Hofbogen project in Rotterdam.

    The Hofplein viaduct (1905-1908) is a 1.9-kilometer-long viaduct, built in the northern part of Rotterdam in the early 20th century. Since 2007 Hofbogen BV, under the leadership of Crimson Architectural Historians, has already undertaken several projects, ranging from small-scale temporary cultural events to large-scale restoration. The aim of the activities is to restore the neglected Hofplein viaduct to its former glory so that it will actively contribute to the quality of the public surroundings.

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    1 September 2010

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  • Veld van Klanken door 24H > architecture

    Nog steeds wordt gezocht naar nieuwe vormen van collectiviteit. Zo zijn als onderdeel van de herstructureringsopgave ’WiMBY!’ (Welcome in My Backyard) in tuinstad Hoogvliet, drie co-housing projecten gerealiseerd. Bij deze projecten hebben gelijkgestemden met elkaar hun eigen woningen ontwikkeld. 24H > architecten heeft het project Veld van Klanken ontworpen, waarbij is uitgegaan van de gedachte dat de muzikant een individu is met een gemeenschappelijke passie.

    see: de Architect

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    2 June 2010


    june 9, 2010 - 15.00: Aula, TU Delft
    The 9th of June, Wouter Vanstiphout will be officially inaugurated as professor at the Delft University of Technology. In his inauguration speech he will address the relationship between the immaterial world of politics and the political potency of tactile design – and vice versa. The speech(in Dutch) is open for anybody who is interested: June 9th, 15:00, Aula TU Delft. A map of the campus and how to get there can be found here, and RSVP’ing is possible at the Design as Politics facebook page! >>

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    21 May 2010

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  • Bekijk het Chinese paviljoen op de World Expo met als thema The Urbanian op CCTV. Aan de tentoonstelling van Kossmann.dejong werkten o.a. Michelle Provoost en Arnold Reijndorp mee als inhoudelijk adviseur. >>

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    22 March 2010


    1.9-kilometer-long viaduct, built in the northern part of Rotterdam in the early 20th century

    Since 2007 Crimson Architectural Historians has been leading the Hofbogen project in Rotterdam.

    The Hofplein viaduct (1905-1908) is a 1.9-kilometer-long viaduct, built in the northern part of Rotterdam in the early 20th century. It consists of 189 arches and forms the start of a railway line linking Rotterdam with The Hague and Scheveningen. The Hofplein viaduct is owned by Hofbogen BV, a private enterprise, set up in 2006 by four Rotterdam-based housing corporations. A carefully considered new use for this former railway line will make a key contribution to upgrading the quality of the northern suburbs of the city. Since 2007 Hofbogen BV, under the leadership of Crimson Architectural Historians, has already undertaken several projects, ranging from small-scale temporary cultural events to large-scale restoration.

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    15 March 2010


    9 october 2009 - 7 february 2010

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    30 October 2009


    Wetenschappelijk onderzoeker Wouter Vanstiphout krijgt als eerste in Nederland de functie hoogleraar Ontwerp en Politiek. De leerstoel is een initiatief van het ministerie van Volkshuisvesting, Ruimtelijke Ordening en Milieu in samenwerking met de Technische Universiteit Delft. Dat hebben de TU en VROM donderdag bekendgemaakt. >>

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    8 October 2009


    8 Oktober 2009

    Het Ontwikkelingsbedrijf Rotterdam organiseerde een Talkshow over het onderwerp Publiek Ontwikkelen in Off_Corso Rotterdam. Aan tafel o.a. Wouter Vanstiphout.

    Talkshow Publiek Ontwikkelen OBR from Ontwikkelingsbedrijf Rotterdam on Vimeo.

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    7 October 2009


    07 October 2009, 19:00 – 21:00

    A conversation at the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, on the capacity of large-scale urban extensions and new towns to sustainably accommodate coexistence between Michelle Provoost, partner, Crimson Architectural Historians, Rotterdam; and Lars Lerup, William Ward Watkin Professor of Architecture, Rice University, Houston.

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    24 September 2009 - 10 January 2010
    Subcurated by Crimson Architectural Historians
    Crimson Architectural Historians will be subcurating the 4th International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The 4th IABR is being held at various locations in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) is the main venue, the heart of the biennale. The VPRO program will be presented on radio, television, and internet as well as in the NAI. >>

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    16 June 2009

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  • 16 June 2009, 19:00 – 21:00

    Lecture by Michelle Provoost at the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam.

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    March 5, ETH Zurich

    Open City - Reflection and implementation
    Dr. Michelle Provoost, Crimson Architectural Historians, Rotterdam, Sub-curator 4th IABR 2009

    OPEN CITY - Panel Discussion
    Roundtable with theorists and practitioners
    Moderator: Dr. Ole Bouman, Director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute NAI Rotterdam

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    13 February 2009

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  • Crimson Architectural Historians in Mentougou | Beijing

    "On Friday February 13, MovingCities went on an embedded urban research trip with Crimson Architectural Historians. Throughout the past one and a half decade this Rotterdam based collective has developed an intriguing hybrid practice that takes the contemporary city as its object. Their ongoing study is a worldwide research project on the phenomenon, evolution, discourse and current state of the New Town:

    After the second world war a large family of New Towns was built all over the globe. The towns were planned from scratch, based on the combined ideologies of the Garden City, CIAM-modernism and the neighbourhood principle. From Western Europe to Asia, from Africa to the former communist countries, the original universal model of the New Town was adapted to local cultures, economics and politics."

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    17 November 2008


    Crimson, Wouter Vanstiphout
    Brussel, 19 Juni 2008

    Dames en Heren,

    Mijn naam is Wouter Vanstiphout; Ik ben architectuurhistoricus werkzaam bij Crimson Architectural Historians in Rotterdam; mijn nationaliteit is de Belgische. Verder is het goed om bij het lezen van deze tekst ervan uit te gaan dat ik in alle andere opzichten Nederlander ben. Ik woon er immers reeds zo’n dertig jaar.

    Toch speelt België voor mij wel degelijk een belangrijke rol: het België van de jaren zeventig, meer bepaald de Zuider Kempen, vormen voor mij nog steeds een dikwijls melancholische maar even zo vaak een bijna surrealistische referentie, die ongetwijfeld niets meer met de werkelijkheid van België van doen heeft, maar die toch een vervormend effect heeft op de werkelijkheid die ik waar dan ook aanschouw.

    Rijdend door plekken zo verschillend als Fort Lauderdale, kleine steden op de Pampa’s in Argentinië, marktsteden in Kreta en zelfs Indiase nieuwe wijken, kan ik mijn reisgenoten nog steeds tot razernij drijven door op te merken: “ het lijkt hier op België”. Dat laat zich gemakkelijk verklaren uit het feit dat ieder verstedelijkingsproces in de wereld op al duizenden jaren op dezelfde manier verloopt, het privé initiatief dat zich door middel van gebouwen, als paparazzi langs een rode loper, manifesteert aan een doorgaande straat. Overal, behalve in Nederland, waar dit geen algemeen beeld (meer) is. De hele wereld lijkt dus op elkaar, behalve Nederland. Maar deze tweedeling is zo grof en lijkt zo stupide dat zij meer over mij moet zeggen, dan over de ruimtelijke orde van Nederland of België. Kennelijk is in mijn onderbewustzijn alles wat niet Nederland is, België geworden.

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