Staff

Prof.dr.ir. Mick Eekhout

Mick Eekhout is parttime Professor Product Development in the department of Building Technology, faculty of Archietecture, TU Delft since 1992. In 1982 he founded Octatube Space Structures, a company specialized in 'design+build' projects for three dimensional constructions in building industry and architecture.

For more information see: http://www.mickeekhout.nl

e-mail: m.eekhout@octatube.nl

Dr.ir. Wim Poelman

Wim Poelman was born in The Hague, the Netherlands, on 6 june 1948. In 1967 he finished his VWO pre-university education. The same year he started his study Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, which he finished in 1974. From that year Wim Poelman worked for several companies, varying from product manufacturers to information industries. Since 1984 he runs his own consultancy company, specialized in design research, design management and design education. Since 2000 he is associate professor Product Design & Engineering at the University for Professional Education in Utrecht, Netherlands.

In 1999 he started a PhD research project at the Section for Environmental Product Development, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology. Poelman has published various books, reports, papers on product development and technology management. He was co-founder of a council for industrial design and a society for material design in the Netherlands and of several magazines within this disciplines. He presented many post academic courses and participated in many juries and commissions in the field of industrial design engineering.

e-mail: W.A.Poelman@bk.tudelft.nl

website: http://www.poelman-partners.nl/

Dr.ir. Bernard Leupen

Since my graduation in the roaring seventies I was interested in dwelling architecture and the architecture of the city. In the eighties I did several competition designs on dwelling and urban design, so I did an entry for the Oosterdok competition in Amsterdam and the Kruisplein building competition in Rotterdam. From 1988 until 1990 I worked together with Rem Koolhaas who was a guest professor at that time. Together we organised two symposia “Whether Europe” (with people like Zaha Hadid, Hans Kollhoff, and Bernard Tschumi) and “Hoe modern is de Nederlandse architectuur”. Since fifteen years I am focussing on research.

So I am writing a lot of texts and books like Ontwerp en Analyse (Design and analysis, co author) and The IJ-plein book. In 2002 I finished my PHd thesis Frame and Generic space (010 publishers) and became Doctorate.
Together with Jasper van Zwol, René Heijne and Birgit Jürgenhake we made the book “Time Based Architecture”, a book about the influence of changes in program and lifestyle on the design of buildings. After educating first and second year students in the 70’s and 80’s I got a lot of final course students in the 90’s, sometimes resulting in Archiprix prices. Since the new BSc-MSc curriculum I am teaching in the Master 3 and 4 of Architecture and Modernity, “New Concepts for Dwelling”. During the program 1006-1007 I am a guest professor at the academy in Copenhagen.
In the Designing for the Unknown studio students develop new ideas for housing designs. To this end the act of dwelling is investigated against the background of changes in dwelling patterns, new views on dwelling, different modes of dwelling and the use of new technologies in housing construction and in dwelling.

e-mail: B.A.J.Leupen@bk.tudelft.nl

Ir. Ype Cuperus

Ype Cuperus (1952), Assistant Professor in Architectural Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, conducts research and publishes on Open Building and Lean Construction related matters. He is director of OBOM, Open Building Strategic Studies and participates in CIB W104, Open Building Implementation and IGLC, International Group for Lean Construction.

He started his career (1977) as a member of professor Age van Randen's team 'Groep van Randen', in 1985 renamed as OBOM Research Group. He took over the helm in 1998. When the academic environment became too restrictive, OBOM expanded, left the university environment and has gone private. OBOM now advises clients in Europe, Australia. Japan and Korea.

e-mail: Y.J.Cuperus@bk.tudelft.nl

PhD researchers

ir. Ties Rijcken

Ties Rijcken, born in Groningen, 24 march 1976, studied Industrial Design at TU Delft and at Stanford University in Californie. He did graduation project “ Neerlands H2Oop-products for living on water” together with the production compagnie ABC Arkenbouw. In 2003 he graduated Cum Laude.

Since then he worked with ABC Arkenbouw as innovation employee. Besides that he also worked as a designteacher at TU Delft and as a freelancer for Aldus Bouwinnovatie and Erasmus Univerity, Rotterdam.

Professor dr. J.W. Drukker, dr. Peter Lloyd, ir. Mirjam Peters en ABC Arkenbouw directeur K. Koffeman favoured his graduationproject with a 10 on scale 1 to 10.

Telephone: 015-2789157 of 06-41227617

E-mail: t.rijcken@bk.tudelft.nl