Kees Christiaanse

Kees Christiaanse studied at Delft University of Technology. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rotterdam. Employment is recorded with Technische Universität Berlin, ETH Zurich and KCAP. Work by Kees Christiaanse is recorded in the collections of Nieuwe Instituut.

Christiaanse worked with Rem Koolhaas' architecture firm, OMA, where he was made a partner in 1983 at the age of 30, and worked for the firm until 1989. After OMA, he founded Kees Christiaanse Architects and Planners (KCAP, in Rotterdam, 1989) and ASTOC Architects and Planners (in Cologne, 1990); he worked with ASTOC until 2002. He was also artistic director of the Dutch Building Department from 1993 to 1996. From 1996 to 2003 he was a professor of architecture and urban planning at Technische Universität Berlin, and was Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Institute for Urban Design at ETH in Zürich from 2003 to 2018. Two monographs on Christiaanse's work have been published, and an exhibition of the work done by his firms, "The City as Loft," was held at DeSingel in Antwerp in 2003. He is known for his urban planning work and "has quietly become the power behind the throne of Dutch architecture." He now lives and works in Zurich. Christiaanse was the curator of the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, and takes on large-scale projects such as the development of neglected areas for the 2012 Summer Olympics. His latest project is the design of a masterplan for an "engineering campus" (or "science park") in the Bavarian city of Augsburg, a 70 acre project for which the state government (Freistaat Bayern) and the city are contributing 60 million Euros.

• Poseidon, office building, The Hague (1996) • Kavel 25, housing project, The Hague (1992) • Snackbar Bram Ladage, snackbar with 18 ft Pepsi can (1992) • Housing blocks on Java Island, Amsterdam (1998) • Hogeschool Rotterdam, building for Arts, Architecture, Education departments (1998) • Kenniscentrum NISA, building for the Netherlands Institute of Ship and Underwater Archeology (1999) • Het Baken, residential tower, Deventer (2002) • De Witte Keizer, residential high-rise, Rotterdam (2005) • The Red Apple, residential high-rise with office buildings, Rotterdam (2009) • Park and ride facilities for Uithof, Utrecht (2011)

• Illustration — "Vexierbild" (picture puzzle), a Holzhafen building in Hamburg, Germany, designed by Christiaanse's ASTOC firm • Masterplan for housing festival, Hague (1987) • Urban plan for Leidsche Rijn Vinex near Utrecht (1995) • City plan Zuidhavenkwartier, Rotterdam • Master plan for Eastern Docklands, Amsterdam (1998) • Urban plan for Vinex location Schuytgraaf, Arnhem (1998) • Urban plan for Lelystad South area of the Flevoland Vinex (1999) • Winning proposal in 1999 for HafenCity in Hamburg, one of the largest European rebuilding projects of the 21st century • "Vexierbild," three buildings in Hamburg Holzhafen, first building finished 2003 ("Vexierbild" translates as "impossible object"—the buildings suggest the earlier warehouses and by virtue of their open architecture allow an observer to see through to them to the city) • Olympic Legacy Masterplan for the 2012 Summer Olympics • Stadionpark Rotterdam • Europaallee • Jurong Lake District

Kees Christiaanse is recorded as architect, university teacher, lecturer and researcher.