Socio-plastics
11 September 2017
Dirk van den Heuvel, head of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre at Het Nieuwe Instituut was in residency in fall 2017 at the Wimbledon House as one of the Richard Rogers Fellows, inaugurating a new program for architectural and urban research of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD).
He used his residency to continue his research on Alison and Peter Smithson and the New Brutalism within the context of the postwar British welfare state. During the three months of his stay, he reported periodically from London on the interrelations between architecture, planning, and housing policies.
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Dirk van den Heuvel
Dirk van den Heuvel received his PhD in architecture from TU Delft, where he teaches as an associate professor. He is the cofounder and head of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre at the Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. Van den Heuvel was the curator of the exhibition Open: A Bakema Celebration, the official presentation of the Dutch Pavilion for the 14th International Architecture Exhibition at Venice Biennale (2014). He is an editor of the publication series DASH (Delft Architectural Studies on Housing) (nai010publishers) and the architectural theory journal Footprint. He previously served as editor of the Dutch journal OASE (1993-99). His publication credits include Architecture and the Welfare State (Routledge, 2015), Team 10: In Search of a Utopia of the Present 1953-1981 (NAi Publishers, 2005), Alison and Peter Smithson: From the House of the Future to a House of Today (010 Publishers, 2004).
Richard Rogers Fellowship
The Richard Rogers Fellowship is a new residency program hosted at the Wimbledon House, the landmarked residence designed by acclaimed architect Lord Richard Rogers for his parents in the late 1960s. Lord Richard and Lady Ruth Rogers generously gifted the house to Harvard GSD to create the program, an international platform that will bring together experts and practitioners from a broad range of disciplines and whose work is focused on the built environment and its capacity to advance the quality of human life.
In Fall 2016, Harvard GSD issued a call for applications for the program's first year of three-month residencies. The inaugural class of fellows--who hail from Austria, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United States--were selected from more than 200 applicants from around the world.