Jo Coenen

Jo Coenen ( born September 30, 1949 in Heerlen ) is a Dutch architect, urban planner and professor.

Life and work

Architecture

To Coenen influences include Luigi Snozzi and James Stirling, where he studied from 1977. Before he started his own business, he worked a short time in 1979 in the architectural firm of Aldo van Eyck and Theo Bosch in Amsterdam. In 1979 he opened his own architectural office in Eindhoven. First, he wound up a few smaller orders, then he was already planning the library in Heerlen ( 1983-86 ) and the Town Hall in Delft ( 1984-86 ). Winning the competition for the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam in 1988 signified a future career breakthrough (1993 completed ). In 1997 he participated in the Milan Triennial and the São Paulo Biennial.

Since 1987, he has the overall supervision of urban planning in The Hague, Amsterdam, Maastricht, Eindhoven and Tilburg. As a city planner, he was responsible for, among the KNSM island on the eastern waterfront in Amsterdam ( 1988-89 ) and for the Vaillantlaan in The Hague and the former Sphinx Ceramique site in Maastricht ( 1987).

From 2000 to 2004, Coenen Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands. In 1995 he won the BNA Kubus, an award of the Dutch Architects (BNA ). He is an honorary member of the Association of German Architects.

University teacher

As a high school teacher he was and is active in the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland. Already in the year after his graduation he became a lecturer in 1976 at the Technical University of Eindhoven, two years later at the Academy of Architecture Maastricht. From 1987 to 1995 he held the chair of Building Theory and Design at the University of Karlsruhe. In 1995 he became professor at the RWTH Aachen. Since 2001 he is professor at the Technical University of Delft.

Planned and realized objects (selection)

Vesteda Tower, seen from Vestdijk from

Public Library, Amsterdam

Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam

DOCK, Dusseldorf