Kas Oosterhuis

Kas Oosterhuis studied at Delft University of Technology. The recorded working language is Dutch. The field of work recorded is architecture. Employment is recorded with Delft University of Technology. Works named in the authority record are Bálna. Work by Kas Oosterhuis is recorded in the collections of Collection Vedute.

• Name — Kas Oosterhuis • Born — 1951 • Birthplace — Amersfoort, Netherlands • Known for — Architecture • Movement — Nonstandard Architecture, Interactive Architecture, Planetary Architecture • Awards — Dutch Design Prize, National Steel Prize, Funda Award, Proholz Prize, Business Week/Architectural Record Award, Zeeuwse Architectuurprijs, OCÉBNA Prize for Industrial Architecture

Oosterhuis studied architecture at Delft University of Technology from 1970 to 1979, under Rem Koolhaas. In 1991, he completed his first housing project, the Patiowoningen at the Dedemsvaartweg, and an urban design scheme by OMA. From the beginning of their practice, Oosterhuis worked closely with visual artist Ilona Lénárd. In 2000, Oosterhuis accepted a professorship at the Faculty of Architecture at the TU Delft. From September 2017 to June 2019, Kas Oosterhuis held a professorship at Qatar University in Doha; from September 2022 to August 2023, a full professorship at INDA Chulalongkorn University.

Oosterhuis has used a digital approach to architecture, from the earliest design stages up to the computer numerical controlled production of the building components, of which process the A2 Cockpit in the Sound Barrier is an example. Oosterhuis has won and subsequently built two international competitions: the Bálna Budapest and the LIWA tower in Abu Dhabi. Between 1988 and 1989, Kas Oosterhuis and Ilona Lénárd lived and worked for one year in the Van Doesburg studio-house in Meudon near Paris. In that year, they decided to bring their art and architecture work together in a joint practice, under the motto of “The Fusion of Art and Architecture on a Digital Platform”. In their early years of coöperation they organized the events Artificial Intuition (1990, Gallery Aedes, Berlin), The Synthetic Dimension (1991, De Zonnehof Amersfoort), Sculpture City (1994, Ram Gallery Rotterdam), and realized 20 public art and architectural projects: the inflatable weblounge ParaSITE (1996, Rotterdam Festivals), the Musicsculpture in Oldemarkt (1998), the TT Monument in Assen (2002), housing projects Patio Housing The Hague (1991, Dedemsvaartweg) and De Kassen (1991, Kattenbroek Amersfoort), where Ilona Lénárd mapped colorful dazzle paintings on the entire facade, the housing project Dancing Facades (1992) in De Hunze in Groningen, the Waterpavilion (1997) at Neeltje Jans, featuring the complex Hydra structure on the basis of an intuitive 3d computer sketch, and later the housing project Fside (2007) in Amsterdam. Kas Oosterhuis realized the Liwa Tower in the Capital Center district in Abu Dhabi in 2014.