NEW GENERATIONS. Shift

Shift Archictecture and Urbanism, is the selected team this week for the NEW GENERATIONS series by Itinerant Office. Based in Rotterdam, the office focuses on the fields of architecture, urbanism and spatial planning. The office combines a broad engagement in space production with precise and project-specific design interventions.

Cyprus Private Mini Cruise Assignment. Competition. Image courtesy of Shift.

Harm Timmermans and Oana Radeş founded the office in 2005. In 2010 Thijs van Bijsterveldt joined the principal team. Despite the youth of the studio, they have received several awards and nominations, including the Charlotte Köhler Prize, Prix de Rome, Archiprix International and Archiprix NL.

All three partners teach and lecture at different universities and schools throughout the Netherlands, such as the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Tilburg, the Design Academy Eindhoven, Technical University of Eindhoven and the Rietveld Academy Amsterdam.

Here, the interview to the studio.

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Bulb City Assignment, research by design on housing in the Bollenstreek. Image courtesy of Shift.

The Acme Manifesto Assignment. Europan 10 competition, housing manifesto and masterplan. Image courtesy of Shift.

Dealing with Vierhaven Assignment. Graduation project, TU Eindhoven on a harbour tranformation. Image courtesy of Shift.

Spa Village Assignment. Urban and architectural concept study for a spa resort. Image courtesy of Shift.

Dentist collective Assignment. Transformation of an exiting 30s villa into a dentist practice. Image courtesy of Shift.

OPEN specifiCITY Assignment. Prix de Rome competition, restructuring of the centre of a postwar neighborhood. Image courtesy of Shift.

PERRON XL+ Assignment. Design study for a public transport hub. Image courtesy of Shift.

Faculty Club Tilburg University Assignment. Design and engineering of multifunctional campus building for the academic staff of Tilburg University. Image courtesy of Shift.

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Architecture and Urbanism. SHIFT

Shift is an architecture practice based in Rotterdam, founded in 2005 by Harm Timmermans (1975) and Oana Rades (1977). In 2010 Thijs van Bijsterveldt (1981) joined the principal team. All three partners teach and lecture at different universities and schools throughout the Netherlands, such as the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Tilburg, the Design Academy Eindhoven, the Technical University of Eindhoven, and the Rietveld Academy Amsterdam.

Awards: The Charlotte Köhler Prize, Prix de Rome, Archiprix International and Archiprix NL.

Shift Architecture Urbanism is a Rotterdam-based practice that operates both beyond the traditional boundaries of architecture and at the same time within the hard core of architecture. In both cases, we believe that architecture should be there to make a difference, or shouldn’t be there at all.

Shift stands for a proactive approach to relevant spatial issues shaping the contemporary environment. The office engages in self-initiated research-by-design studies on themes such as transport, infrastructure, sports, and (the public domain of) the city. In these studies, Shift visualizes future scenarios through specific spatial interventions charged with form, program, and typology.

Shift strives for a craftsmanship attitude throughout each phase of the architectural process. Experimentation and originality are balanced with skill and precision. Rather than on the newness, the focus is on performance. The office finds it its task to safeguard the integrity of each project. Shift takes responsibility for the architecture of the entire process: from sketch to realization.