Venue.- IAAC 12th of November 2010. Time : 19.30hrs.
Professor Kas Oosterhuis studied architectural at the Delft Technical University. In 1987-1988 he taught as Unit Master at the AA in London and worked / lived one year in the former studio of Theo van Doesburg in Paris together with visual artist Ilona Lénárd. Their design studio is in 2004 renamed into ONL [Oosterhuis Lénárd]. As from 2007 Kas Oosterhuis is a registered architect in Hungary. From 2000 he is appointed professor digital design methods at the Delft Technical University and is currently leading a staff of 20 researchers at Hyperbody, the knowledge center for Nonstandard and Interactive Architecture at the TU Delft. Kas Oosterhuis is Director of the protoSPACE Laboratory in the iWEB pavilion. He has been the co-founder of the Attila Foundation, responsible for the ground-breaking Sculpture City event in 1994 and the ParaSite weblounge in 1996. He has lectured worldwide at numerous universities and academies since 1990.
In 2008 ONL received the Autodesk BIM Experience Award for the CET Project in Budapest. Further award winning building designs include the Saltwater Pavilion at Neeltie Jans (Gold Award 1997 for innovative recreational projects, Zeeuwse Architectuurprijs 1998, nomination Mies van der Rohe Award 1998), the Garbagetransferstation Elhorst/Vloedbelt in Zenderen (Business Week / Architectural Record Award 1998, OCE-BNA Award for Industrial Architecture 1996, Aluminium Design Award 1997) and the Hessing Cockpit in Acoustic Barnier in Utrecht (National Steel Award 2006, Glass Award 2006, Dutch Design Award for Public Space 2006, nomination Mies van der Rohe Award 2008, nomination Golden Pyramid 2006).
