Buying Your Own Home in Rotterdam (Webinar)
Buying Your Own Home in Rotterdam (Webinar)
Thu, Sep 8, 2022 5:00 PM CEST (+02:00)
Free
Baltimore + Rotterdam | HCM + GROUP A
Date and time
Location
Online event
Online conversation about designing (in) cities, with Taejun Kim + Maarten van Bremen on March 29 at 12pm EDT (US), 6pm CET (Netherlands).
About this event
Baltimore+Rotterdam: Designing Cities
Each week this spring, two design groups, one from Baltimore (Maryland, USA) and one from Rotterdam (the Netherlands), pair up to discuss architecture, urban design, and how design and policy can improve the built environment for all residents. (More information about this conversation series)
The March 29, 2022 edition features:
- Taejun Kim Hord Coplan Macht (HCM) (Baltimore)
- Maarten van Bremen GROUP A Architects (Rotterdam)
- Moderator: Chris van Langen Program Manager for Spatial Design Action, Creative Industries Fund NL
- Host: Cristina Murphy Assistant Professor at Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning (MSU SA+P) and Adjunct Professor at Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center
TIME & REGISTRATION
12:00pm EDT Maryland time, which is 18.00 CET Netherlands time. Each speaker talks about their work, followed by panel discussion and Q&A.
Open to the public. Advance registration required.
The webinar will be conducted in English language.
AUDIENCE
The lecture is geared towards architects, developers, community organizers, social enterprises, city planners, policymakers, and professors and students of architecture and urban design.
AIA Continuing Education Credits: 1 LU
About the speakers
Taejun Kim Hord Coplan Macht (HCM)
Taejun is a senior associate and one of the lead designers for HCM. He has over 10 years of experience in higher education, healthcare, offices, mixed-use, multi-family, retail, and most recently senior living and affordable housing. Taejun approaches each project differently based on the challenges of each project, and he is hands-on from the concept design to construction administration for a building design as he believes concept never realized properly without complementing details. A registered architect in Maryland, member of the AIA. He is also a frequent guest critic and former adjunct faculty member at the Morgan State University Graduate School of Architecture.
Maarten van Bremen GROUP A Architects
Maarten van Bremen is Founding partner at GROUP A. Graduated from TU Delft, Maarten van Bremen founded GROUP A in 1996 together with Folkert van Hagen and Adam Visser. He is an expert in the field of reuse and renovation focusing on early modern architecture and monuments. His award-winning work comprises the renovation of the brutalist subway stations of the Metro Oostlijn Amsterdam, the renovation of the nautic monumental office Damen Shipyard in Vlissingen, and the transformation of a former 14.500 sqm warehouse in Rotterdam’s harbor district into an activity-based building offering space to sustainably create, produce, and meet. These projects have been awarded the NRP Gulden Feniks, Frame Award and Dutch Daylight Award. GROUP A's work has been exhibited at Design Museum in London, Cultural Capital Porto and ARCAM in Amsterdam, among others.
Chris van Langen Program Manager for Spatial Design Action, Creative Industries Fund NL
Chris van Langen is programme leader at the Creative Industries Fund NL. He graduated in 1989 from the Faculty of Architecture of Eindhoven University of Technology (Architectural History and Theory and Architectural Urban Design). After his studies, he started in 1990 at the Urban Planning and Housing Department of the Municipality of Rotterdam. There he worked as urban designer and as the coordinator of the internal discussion platform of the department. He also was a member of the Urban Planning Staff of the department for two years. In May 2005 Chris started working for the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design (RAvB). Initially as coordinator of Urban Design and graduation coordinator, and from August 2008 to October 2021 as head of the school.
About this webinar series
This webinar is one of a series of design conversations with Baltimore + Rotterdam architects and urban designers.
See other webinars in this series
Series is coordinated by Cristina Murphy, Assistant Professor at Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning (MSU SA+P) and Adjunct Professor at Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, with assistance from Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee (BRSCC).
Event Partners: AIA Baltimore ; Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst (RAvB)
