
CEO and owner van der Architects
Japan

CEO and owner van der Architects
Japan
van der Architects provides superior design services.
Architecture, Design, WorkVitamins.
(Educational Institution; Architecture & Planning industry)
December 2006 — Present (2 years 1 month)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)
January 1999 — Present (10 years)
Corporate Interior Design
Workplace Strategy Consulting
(Architecture & Planning industry)
2000 — 2005 (5 years)
Guest Lecturer Musashino Art Univerity 1996 - 2000
Guest Lecturer United Nations Univeristy: 2003
Assistant researcher Waseda University, School of Science & Technology: 2000-2001
Lecturer: Waseda University, School of Science & Technology: 2000-2005
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)
January 1992 — January 1993 (1 year 1 month)
Design and construction drawings
Projects: Kyoto Station, Umeda Interconnected Super-skycraper, Ose Middle School, After the Burst office & show room.
BSc, Industrial Design, Architecture, Interior Design, 1989 — 1992
Post Graduate Diplome in Architecture, Architecture, Urban Design
MSc, Engineering Product Design
Architecture
Projects:
500Mx500Mx500M Cube: a conceptual city for a population of 100,000
Future in furniture
Architecture: Tokyo, Buckminster Fuller, Oscar Niemeyer, Superstudio, Minoru Takeyama, Wittgenstein, Alex de Rijke, David Adjaye, Alison & Peter Smithson, Art: Sol Lewitt, Carl Andre, Futurism, Banksy, Paul Insect, Takashi Murakami, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp Books: Merleau-Ponty, JL Borges, Marc Auge, Manfredo Tafuri, Funky Business, Danilo Kis, Lautreamont, Kafka, Italo Calvino, Marshal McLuhan, Jean Beaudrillard, Fredric Jameson, Abraham Maslow, Thomas Mann, Hugo Pratt, Milorad Pavic. Music: Joy Division, Architecture in Helsinki, The arcade fire, The legendary pinkdots, Hafler trio, Cabaret Voltaire, Bauhaus, the Fall, John Zorn, HNAS, Animal Collective, Wolf eyes, Factrix, Bourbonese Qualk, Av Ursin Movies: The Matrix, Jacques Tati, the Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, 2001, Solyaris, A Clockwork Orange, Der Untergang, Apocalypse Now, Fitzcarraldo, Christiane F, Pierrot Le Fou, Das Boot
Advisory Board Member Journal of E-Working
Chairman NCCJ Membership Committee,
Member International Telework Foundation,
Member International Flexwork Forum,
Entrepreneur Association,
ACCJ,
Architects Institute of Japan,
Associate member AIA Japan,
1993,1994: Scholarship from the Dutch Foundation for Architecture
1995: Richard Davis Award for best student project, London, UK
Publications:
"The development of the office - The workplace, people & equipment" in Telework strategies for the new workforce, Tokyo 1999
"Tokio transitioneel: een andere visie op de werkomgeving" in Telewerken, Deventer 2000
"Een nieuwe ontwerpmethodologie", in Kantoor & efficiency Deventer 2000
"Transition" in eBusiness and workplace redesign, London 2002
"ofisukuukan no dezainapuroochi" in Shotenkenchiku, Tokyo 2004
"waakaa no motibeesion o takametukoso ofisudezain" in New Office Vol 173, Tokyo 2005