Kas Oosterhuis

Kas Oosterhuis is professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, as well as director of Hyperbody and the Protospace Laboratory for Collaborative Design and Engineering. His teaching and research is in the areas of interactive architecture, real time behaviour of buildings and environments, living building concepts, collaborative design, file to factory production and parametric design.

Contents

• Tedxdelft kas oosterhuis we are changing your view on what is beautiful and what s not
• Lecture by kas oosterhuis
• History
• Awards
• Projects
• Writings
• Exhibitions
• References

Born in 1951 in Amersfoort, Kas Oosterhuis studied architecture at the Delft University of Technology. Afterwards, he taught as unit master at the AA in London. From there, he worked and lived one year in the former studio of Theo van Doesburg in Paris, together with visual artist Ilona Lénárd. In 1989, he founded Kas Oosterhuis Architekten in Rotterdam (renamed to Oosterhuis Lénárd, or ONL, in 2004). Since 2000, Oosterhuis has been professor of digital design methods at the Delft University of Technology in Netherlands.

History

2005 ONL*NUT joint office, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing China

2003 office name changed to ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] BV

from 2000 professor Technical University Delft

1989 founding Kas Oosterhuis Architekten

1988/1989 living/working in studio Theo van Doesburg in Paris [with Ilona Lénárd]

1987/1989 Unit Master AA London

1970/1979 TU Delft architecture

1951 born in Amersfoort 4 July

Awards

2007 Dutch Design Prize [Cockpit in Acoustic Barrier]

2007 National Steel Prize [Cockpit in Acoustic Barrier]

2007 Mies van der Rohe award nomination [Cockpit in Acoustic Barrier]

2006 Funda Award [Hessing Cockpit in Acoustic Barrier]

2005 Proholz Prize, Austria [Schmetterling Wingman]

2002 European Aluminium Award nomination [TT Monument and Web of North*Holland]

1999 Mies van der Rohe award nomination [Saltwaterpavilion]

1999 National Steelprize nomination [Saltwaterpavilion]

1998 Business Week / Architectural Record Award [Garbagetransferstation Elhorst/ Vloedbelt]

1998 Zeeuwse Architectuurprijs [Saltwaterpavilion]

1996 OCÉBNA Prize for industrial architecture [Garbagetransferstation Elhorst/ Vloedbelt]

1996 National Steelprize honorable mention [Garbagetransferstation Elhorst/ Vloedbelt]

Projects

2007 CET Budapest, Budapest, Hungary [1]

2007 Landmark, Kaiserslautern Germany

2007 Capital Centre, Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates

2007 Dubai Sports City, Dubai United Arab Emirates

2007 Drents Museum, Assen the Netherlands

2007 F side, 56 houses Bijlmermeer Amsterdam

2007 BMW Ekris Headlights

2006 iWeb TU Delft

2006 Digital Pavilion, Seoul South Korea

2006 Acoustic Barrier

2005 Hessing Cockpit

2005 Masterplan Automotive Complex

2002 Web of North-Holland Floriade

2002 TT Monument

2000 8*Bit Housing

1998 Family Zoetermeer

1998 TGV Housing

1997 Saltwaterpavilion Neeltje Jans Zeeland

1997 Music sculpture

1995 Dancing Facades

1995 Elhorst / Vloedbelt Garbagetransferstation

1994 Daken Housing

1994 Dijken Housing

1993 De Kassen Kattenbroek

1991 Drive-in Patio Housing the Hague

1991 Villa Hutten

1987 BRN Catering

Writings

2007 iA # 1 Interactive Architecture (bookzine), Episode Publishers Rotterdam

2006 ONL monography, Images publishers Australia

2006 ONL Hyperbody Logic, AADCU publisher, Beijing, China

2006 GameSetandMatch II, Episode Publisher

2004 BCN Speed and Friction, ESARQ Barcelona

2004 Gamesetandmatch, TU Delft

2003 hyperbodies towards an e*motive architecture Birkhäuser Verlag

2002 architecture goes wild 010 publishers

2002 programmable architecture l’ARCAEDIZIONI

2001 Emotive Architecture Inaugural Speech, Faculty of Architecture TU Delft

1999 vectorial bodies archis 6/99

1998 Kas Oosterhuis architect Ilona Lénárd visual artist 010 publishers

1995 sculpture city book+cd rom 010 publishers

1990 the open volume wiederhall 12

Exhibitions

2006 City Scape 2006, Dubai International Exhibition Centre Dubai

2006 Dutch Pavilion, the Big 5, Dubai International Exhibition Centre, Dubai

2006 ONL Architects Solo Exhibition at the Suzhou Creek Warehouse, Shanghai

2006 The 4th Shanghai International City Garden & Landscape Design Exhibition, Shanghai

2006 Sketch presented on exhibition 'A sketch for London', the London Architecture Biennale

2006 DIAF Festival, Beijing

2006 Exhibition YearbookArchitecture in the Netherlands 2005/2006, Zutphen

2005 ONL*NUT architecture design Nanjing China

2005 'Avenir de Ville', Nancy, France

2005 mobilion, Rijkswaterstaat, Utrecht

2005 tradecom Dubai

2004 Archilab

2004 algorithmic revolution Karlsruhe

2004 digital fabricators exhibition London

2004 La Biennale, 9th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice

2003 Non-Standard Architecture Centre Pompidou Paris

2003 abc Haarlem

2003 Leblac Brussels

2003 Biennale Valencia

2003 Parasite paradise Utrecht

2002 Architekturmuseum München

2001 Blobmeister DAM Frankfurt

2001 Archilab III

2000 Biennale Venice (with Ilona Lénárd)

1999 Archilab I frac centre Orléans

1998 Smart materials AA London

1998 Transarchitectures03 NAi Rotterdam

1985 Architecture in LEGO Centre Pompidou Paris