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Theo Reitsema - GENOVA - The Netherlands
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Biography
Theo Reitsema (1977, Almelo) graduated with honors in 2004 from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Technology in Eindhoven, studying under professor Donald van Dansik (OMA, One architecture). After his study he started his own office in the Netherlands: Reitsema & partners architects (www.reitsema.com).
He won the second prize for best young architect in the Archiprix 2005 with his design for a Low Cost Carrier Terminal. He has won several design competitions. His work has been published in books and magazines. He has been working as a part-time tutor and critic at the Architecture Faculty at the Technical University of Darmstadt, the Academy of Architecture in Arnhem and the DIA-Bauhaus in Dessau.
Theo Reitsema runs a young and dynamic architectural office in the Netherlands. The assignments vary from research, concepts, villa’s to office buildings and airport terminals.
GENOVA - STRATEGIES FOR AN INTERESTING URBAN LIFE
Location: Genova, Italy
Type: Urban Renewal
This Urban Renewal project shows how qualitative and strategic infrastructural connections can stimulate site specific developments. The unconventional character of the project, in touch with the economic and practical reality of Genova, was rewarded with an honorable mention, for Europan 10.
