This archive contains 30+ years of work life. When I look back to it, it occurs as a comprehensive cultural warning system. Warnings against mindlessness, arbitrariness, indifference. Against the erosion of architecture as our highest intellectual, technical and artistic medium. Warnings against unassertively handing over our life world to cyberspace, our critical faculties and our agency to Artificial Intelligence. Warnings against a loss of creative resilience.
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I'm glad to say, there are also several cases of testing alternatives. The transformation of an old building or a journal, imbued with history. The overhaul of a national institution. There is also the formation of a new magazine, a new building and a new institution. These, as well as many others efforts, are also proposals: to re-synchronize our society and grab back time we have lost. To repurpose architecture, and bring it back as spearhead of our most consequential pursuits. As literally the discipline that protects, while nurturing our ambitions for meaning. May this archive show the circumstantial evidence.
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Image below: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Ars Combinatoria, Frankfurt 1690, frontispiece
1994-present
Projects
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Journey to the East
from Amsterdam to Shanghai
10,756km by bike
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Some said its bold. Some said it's crazy.
For myself Journey to the East is a necessary cultural expedition, cycling from Amsterdam to Shanghai to redefine the Silk Road for the 21st century. Spanning 18 countries over 156 days and covering 10,756 kilometers, this journey transcends mere physical distance. It is a quest to bridge the divide between East and West, grounded in tangible encounters with people, landscapes, and histories. Through architecture, dialogue, and storytelling, it's an exploration how cultural exchange can inspire peace and mutual understanding in a time marked by division and environmental crisis​.
