We are thrilled to announce a new event in Amsterdam!
On Thursday, January 30th, at 7pm at Vondelkerk Amsterdam, two distinguished Dutch architects and one international guest speaker will join our format to talk about their personal experiences and the influences that impacted them as architects in the most important creative periods in their lives:
– Kai-Uwe Bergmann, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Copenhagen, www.big.dk
– Bjarne Mastenbroek, SeARCH, Amsterdam, www.search.nl
– Donna van Milligen Bielke, Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke & Ard de Vries Architecten, Amsterdam, www.dvmb.nl
This event is kindly supported by JUNG, Object Carpet and Cosentino.
Media partners: architectenweb, ArchitectuurNL and Bouwwereld.
Tickets
Program live
18:00
“Doors open” & Get-Together
19:00 – 19:10
Welcome
19:10-21:00
Speakers (20-minute talk & 10-minute interview)
21:00 – 21:20
Round table discussion & Q&A
21:20 – 23:00
Get-Together & Fingerfood
JUNG Architecture Talk Podcasts
The first podcast of the JUNG Architecture Talks series in spring 2020 was followed by 145 fascinating conversations with national and international architectural firms – about the profession and vocation, strategies and the will to change the world.
Even though architecture usually lives through the power of images, over 5,000 minutes of conversation prove how words can inspire architecture.
Cosentino Architectural Solutions
At Cosentino Group, we meet the demands of architects and designers who seek inspiration and information for their projects. We invite you to win a Trip to the Cosentino Headquarter. Here we seek to inspire and offer professionals the chance to explore and discover all the opportunities Cosentino products can offer for the most innovative projects.
OBJECT CARPET
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Cosentino Architectural Solutions
At Cosentino Group, we meet the demands of architects and designers who seek inspiration and information for their projects. We invite you to win a Trip to the Cosentino Headquarter. Here we seek to inspire and offer professionals the chance to explore and discover all the opportunities Cosentino products can offer for the most innovative projects.
The event venue
Silent Green Kulturquartier is an event venue and independent project that has found a unique home in Berlin in the historic premises of the former crematorium in Wedding. The heart of silent green is the Kuppelhalle, with its 17 meter tall dome. The architectural layout, pyramid-shaped mansard roof, and the historical terrazzo floor of the hall make it a distinctive venue that instantly turns every event into an extraordinary experience.
About the Speakers
Kai-Uwe Bergmann, FAIA is a Partner at BIG who brings his architectural expertise to proposals around the globe, including work in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Kai-Uwe heads up BIG’s business development–which currently has the office working in over 40 different countries. He also oversees BIG’s Urban scales projects and supports BIG’s Landscape projects. He is registered as an architect in the USA (13 states) and Canada. Kai-Uwe most recently contributed to the resiliency plan BIG U to protect 10 miles of Manhattan’s coastline. First envisioned through the Rebuild by Design competition to develop proactive responses to Superstorm Sandy, it is now being constructed with a completion date in 2026. Further projects include Reimagining Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Queens Park, Smithsonian Master Plan, Pittsburgh Master Plan and Miami Beach Square. He complements his professional work through previous teaching assignments at the University of Pennsylvania, IE University in Madrid, and his alma mater the University of Virginia. Kai-Uwe formerly was on the Board of the Van Alen Institute, participates on numerous international juries and lectures globally on the works of BIG. big.dk
Bjarne Mastenbroek has been practicing architecture in the Netherlands and abroad for over 30 years. Since founding SeARCH in 2002, he has established a practice characterized by a continuous exploration into the intimate and reciprocal relationship between architecture and site. Mastenbroek was chairman of the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects from 2010-2011. He takes part as jury member in prestigious competitions and has given talks around the world. Mastenbroek was ‘Dutch Architect of the Year’ in 2009. Mastenbroek, in collaboration with Dick van Gameren, is the master planner of the IJDock, a prestigious project realised in the waterfront in the centre of Amsterdam. On a newly created island, apartment building, hotel, new palace of justice and a marina are completed after the 20 year long process of redeveloping the IJ-region. The Dutch Embassy in Addis Ababa, winner of the Aga Khan award and Villa Vals in Switzerland on which he collaborated with CMA has won among others, the award for sustainability from the Chicago Athenaeum and the Wallpaper Design Award – both clear examples of how Mastenbroek’s architecture is designed to exist in nature without dominating it. The Isbjerget apartment buildings has won the MIPIM award 2013 (best residential buildings) and is another example of pioneering urbanism and architecture in an area in transition. Mastenbroek has taught at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, TU Delft, the International University of Catalonia and the University of Auckland. www.search.nl
Donna van Milligan Bielke (1983) is an architect with an outspoken vision. In 2014, Van Milligen Bielke received the Prix de Rome for architecture for a plan for organizing the public space in Rotterdam.
Van Milligen Bielke is fascinated by the redefinition and positioning of boundaries, and the influence of architecture on public space. Rather than classifying architecture in volumes, and the city as a collection of volumes, she sees architecture as a means of shaping, connecting and responding to urban fabric.She thus operates on the border of architecture and urban design and moves between different scale levels, from the architectural interior to the urban fabric.In 2019 she received the Young Maasskant Prize
Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke has been working together with Ard de Vries Architects since 2017. Together they work on a diverse range of projects together from private to public, smaller and larger cultural buildings. For their building “the Kunstwerf” in Groningen they won the Abe Bonnema Prize in 2023. dvmb.nl