prof. ir. D. E. van Gameren

Architecture (A) | Housing
Chair of Housing Design

Dick van Gameren has been a full professor of Housing Design at the faculty since 2005. Housing design is still one of the biggest and most important fields for architects in the Netherlands. The worldwide fame of the Dutch tradition of housing design stands in sharp contrast with current building practice which is more and more restricted to a rerun of existing solutions. This means that many of today’s questions relating to such matters as compacting, privacy or mobility remain unanswered. Van Gameren is seeking to highlight the wealth of housing design as part of the Chair’s research and teaching programmes. By designing new types of houses and circuits, he is also aiming to provide a fresh impulse to housing design. Van Gameren gives lessons to Bachelor’s and Master’s students on housing design and on themes from the ‘Context and Modernity’ research programme, including the relationship between public, collective and private spaces in both cities and buildings, the significance of image and space in the design and the evolution of opinions about housing design over the last fifty years.

Van Gameren is an architect as well as a professor. Dick van Gameren architecten designs mostly plans for housing, such as residential buildings on IJburg, in the Oostelijk Havengebied and the Westelijke Tuinsteden districts of Amsterdam. In 2005 he published a book entitled ‘Revisies van de ruimte’ (Revisions of space). He has won various awards, including Europan II, the Charlotte Koehler Prize and the School Building Prize (together with Bjarne Mastenbroek). He has sat on the jury for Europan and Archiprix, among others, and was previously chairman of the committee of the Amsterdam Centre for Architecture.

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