[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.13.1″] The Fleur Groenendijk Foundation, in collaboration with the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture, organizes an annual promotional prize with the name De Meester. This year the presentation will take place on Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Museumpark 25 in Rotterdam. The program and the invitation for this evening will…
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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Dikkie Scipio on the work of the fourth quarterly winner of 2015 Anne Beeksma The city centre of Rotterdam was bombed at the beginning of WWII and Rotterdam West was bombed in 1943. During the war several temporary housing areas, or ‘emergency villages’, were built in Rotterdam to soften the initial blows…
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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Fleur Groenendijk Foundation, in collaboration with the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture, has created the new promotion prize De Meester. The prize, for which only graduates of the academy are eligible, serves to support and promote the promotion of the work of the architect or urban planner and amounts to 5000 euros. Fleur…
Read moreThe night of the Meester 2015
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] On Wednesday evening 18 November 2015, the first winner of the new Rotterdam encouragement award ‘De Meester’ was announced at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Ruben Sannen landed the prize of 5000 euros for his graduation project Tanah Antara. Encouragement award ‘De Meester’ has been initiated by the Fleur Groenendijk Foundation in collaboration with…
Read more4th winner 2014: TALKS about architecture
A permanent location, four evenings, four lectures of four architectural practices. TALKS about architecture, the lecture stage for architecture we have initiated, does not bother us much anymore. You could call it concise. Yet there is more behind our initiative. To interpret this, we pick up a small gray book entitled ‘For an…
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