
Dr.ir. D. van den Heuvel
Dr.ir. D. van den Heuvel
Profiel
Dirk van den Heuvel is an Associate Professor of Architecture. He leads the group of Architecture & Dwelling and the research group Architecture, Culture and Modernity. He also directs the Jaap Bakema Study Centre at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. His expertise is in postwar modern architecture and planning, and its related fields of architecture theory and history, cultural studies and discourse analysis. Key book publications include 'Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture' (2020), 'Jaap Bakema and the Open Society' (2018), and 'Architecture and the Welfare State' (2015).
Van den Heuvel was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Architecture at Monash University, Melbourne, in 2019. In 2017 Van den Heuvel was awarded with a Richard Rogers Fellowship from Harvard GSD for his research project 'Socio-plastics' on New Brutalism in architecture with regard to British welfare state politics. He was the curator of the Dutch national pavilion for the 14th architecture exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2014. Other exhibitions include 'Art on Display 1949-69' for the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon (2019-2020) and 'Structuralism' at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam (2014), together with Herman Hertzberger. For Bureau Europa, Maastricht he curated the show 'Changing Ideals: Re-thinking the House' (2008). With Max Risselada he organised two international exhibitions and publications: ‘Team 10 – In Search of a Utopia of the Present’ (NAi, 2005) and ‘Alison and Peter Smithson – from the House of the Future to a house of today’ (010, 2004). A special book project concerned the history of Dutch architectural education: ‘Lessons: Tupker / Risselada. A Double Portrait of Dutch Architectural Education’ (SUN, 2003, with Madeleine Steigenga and Jaap van Triest).
He is an editor of the series Delft Architectural Studies on Housing, DASH (nai010 publishers), as well as an editorial board member of the Spanish open-access, on-line research journal VLC Arquitectura. He was also an editor of the open-access on-line journal for architecture theory Footprint (2007-2020) and of the journal OASE (1993-1999). His writings have been published in various international magazines and on-line media, among which the Journal of Architecture, AA-Files, Volume and the Dutch website ArchiNed. He has worked as an architect for the offices of Neutelings Riedijk Architecten, De Nijl Architecten, and Madeleine Steigenga. His favourite piece of architecture is the Sir John Soane’s Museum in London.
Onderzoeksinteresses
Expert in the fields of: Architecture, History and theory of modern architecture and urban planning, Housing, Welfare State, New Brutalism, Dutch Structuralism, CIAM, Team 10.
Expertise
Publicaties
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2022
Brutalist Trauma, Picturesque Repair
D. van den Heuvel
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2022
Building Data: Architecture, Memory, and New Imaginaries
Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre
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2022
Collapse and Reconstitution: Autonomy and the Avant-Garde
D. van den Heuvel
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2022
Open Building and User Agency
Early and Contemporary Experiments in the Netherlands
I. Cornago Bonal / D. van den Heuvel -
2022
The Global Workshop
D. van den Heuvel
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Onderwijs 2023
Onderwijs 2022
Media
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2014-01-01
Inside "Open: A Bakema celebration": The Dutch Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale
Prijzen
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2019
MADA Department of Architecture Creative Residency
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2017
Richard Rogers Fellowship
Nevenwerkzaamheden
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2023-01-02 - 2025-01-01
Cultuur, sport en recreatie