Jaap Bakema Study Centre
The Jaap Bakema Study Centre is a collaborative project between Nieuwe Instituut and the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the TU Delft. Directed by Dirk van den Heuvel and coordinated by Stef Dingen, the Jaap Bakema Study Centre facilitates and generates research by, and in collaboration with, other cultural and academic institutions. Through the diverse activities of the Study Centre, its network continuously expands.
Advisory Board
The Jaap Bakema Study Centre academic advisory board consists of Tom Avermaete (ETH Zürich), Hetty Berens (Nieuwe Instituut), Maristella Casciato (Getty Research Institute), Carola Hein (TU Delft) and Georg Vrachliotis (TU Delft). Previously, Laurent Stalder (ETH Zürich) served as a board member.
Architecture Archives of the Future
The Architecture Archives of the Future group is a research group at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the TU Delft. This group aims to develop innovative methods of knowledge production based on the new opportunities presented by digital media and technologies, while building on the Delft traditions of plan analysis and precedent research.
Led by Dirk van den Heuvel, the group consists of the following research associates: Alejandro Campos Uribe, Fatma Tanış, Eytan Mann, Burcu Köken, Íñigo Cornago Bonal, Beatriz Coeffé Boitano, Elena Martínez Millana and Paula Lacomba Montes.
Visiting Scholars
Within the Visiting Scholars programme, the Jaap Bakema Study Centre welcomes guest researchers who participate in its four main fields of interest: Structuralism, the Open Society, Total Space and Museology.
In recent years we have hosted a variety of reserachers. As a part of Erasmus staff training mobility, İmran Gümüş visited for her research revolving around the notion of habitat in the spring of 2023, Xavier van Rooyen worked with the digital archive of MVRDV at Nieuwe Instituut in 2022, Alejandro Campos Uribe has been affiliated on the basis of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship between 2021 and 2023, and Giovanni Bellotti and Alessandra Covini (Studio Ossidiana) worked on the research installation Animal Encounters in 2019.
In 2017, the Jaap Bakema Study Centre welcomed Maarten Gielen and Lionel DeVlieger (Rotor) as visiting professors, creating a research studio on the reuse of heritage and structuralist architecture. Other notable guests include Professor Georges Teyssot (Université de Laval), Professor M. Christine Boyer (Princeton University) and Professor Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen (Yale University).
The Critical Visitor
Nieuwe Instituut is a partner within the NWO The Critical Visitor project that investigates how heritage institutions can bring about new forms of inclusiveness and accessibility through their organisation, collections and exhibition policy. The five-year research project is being conducted by a consortium of fifteen cultural and scientific institutions.
TACK Network
Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and its Ways of Knowing, or simply TACK, is an Innovative Training Network as part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions within the European Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. This international research project aims to gain a better understanding of the often implicit experiential knowledge which architects draw on when designing buildings and cities. TACK is formed by ten European academic institutions, three leading cultural institutions for architecture, and nine leading architectural firms. These partners jointly offer an innovative PhD training programme in the field of tacit knowledge in architecture, resulting in ten parallel PhD projects.
PhD Architecture and Democracy
Together with the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, the Jaap Bakema Study Centre launched the PhD programme Architecture and Democracy. The programme seeks to investigate how over the course of the 20th century, architecture and urban planning have played a role in representing, embodying and enabling democracy. Current PhD candidates are Íñigo Cornago Bonal and Burcu Köken.
Bakema Fellowship
In the years 2006-2012 the precursor organisation of Nieuwe Instituut, the Netherlands Architecture institute, hosted the Bakema Fellowship programme. Fellows were Jessica Bridger, Elena Cabrera Vacas, Dietmar Koering, Thomas Kong, Ismae’l Sheikh Hassan and Tim de Boer.