Kees Christiaanse

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

Education and employment

Christiaanse studied at the Technical University of Delft architecture together with type Zaaijer, with whom he " Kavel 25 " realized the project in The Hague from 1989 to 1992 as a thesis. This contract included not only the residential building with 44 residential units for social housing, but also the urban planning framework. For this work he was awarded in 1991 with the Dutch Berlage architecture prize Vlag. In 1988, Christiaanse his studies in Delft with a degree in architecture and became a partner in the architectural firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA ) in Rotterdam, where he had worked since 1980. In 1989 he started his own business and founded the office Kees Christiaanse Architect & Planners ( KCAP ) in Rotterdam, one year later, together with Peter Berner, Oliver Hall and Mark Neppl ASTOC Architects & Planners in Cologne, which has been trading since 2003 as a GmbH & Co. KG. With its offices, he is primarily concerned with planning tasks in architecture and urban design and has worked for public and for private clients.

From 1993 to 1996 he was to act as creative director of the Dutch government building department in The Hague. He was appointed to the TU Berlin as a professor of architecture and urban planning in 1996. He held until 2003 when he was appointed to the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design at ETH Zurich the chair. In 2009 he was curator of the International Architectuur Biënnale Rotterdam ( IABR ). Since June 2012, he is one of the six members of the Board of Trustees IBA Berlin 2020.

Project selection

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

Publications (selection)

• Situation, Basel: Birkhauser, 2005
• Suburbia in Holland Berlin: TU, University Library, 1997,
• OMA, Berlin: Aedes Gallery of Architecture & Space 1981