Kas Oosterhuis is professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, as well as director of Hyperbody and the Protospace Laboratory for Collaborative Design and Engineering. His teaching and research is in the areas of interactive architecture, real time behaviour of buildings and environments, living building concepts, collaborative design, file to factory production and parametric design.

Born in 1951 in Amersfoort, Kas Oosterhuis studied architecture at the Delft University of Technology. Afterwards, he taught as unit master at the AA in London. From there, he worked and lived one year in the former studio of Theo van Doesburg in Paris, together with visual artist Ilona Lénárd. In 1989, he founded Kas Oosterhuis Architekten in Rotterdam (renamed to Oosterhuis Lénárd, or ONL, in 2004). Since 2000, Oosterhuis has been professor of digital design methods at the Delft University of Technology.

History [edit]

• 2005 ONL*NUT joint office, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing China
• 2003 office name changed to ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] BV
• from 2000 professor Technical University Delft
• 1989 founding Kas Oosterhuis Architekten
• 1988/1989 living/working in studio Theo van Doesburg in Paris [with Ilona Lénárd]
• 1987/1989 Unit Master AA London
• 1970/1979 TU Delft architecture
• 1951 born in Amersfoort 4 July

Awards [edit]

• 2007 Dutch Design Prize [Cockpit in Acoustic Barrier]
• 2007 National Steel Prize [Cockpit in Acoustic Barrier]
• 2007 Mies van der Rohe award nomination [Cockpit in Acoustic Barrier]
• 2006 Funda Award [Hessing Cockpit in Acoustic Barrier]
• 2005 Proholz Prize, Austria [Schmetterling Wingman]
• 2002 European Aluminium Award nomination [TT Monument and Web of North*Holland]
• 1999 Mies van der Rohe award nomination [Saltwaterpavilion]
• 1999 National Steelprize nomination [Saltwaterpavilion]
• 1998 Business Week / Architectural Record Award [Garbagetransferstation Elhorst/ Vloedbelt]
• 1998 Zeeuwse Architectuurprijs [Saltwaterpavilion]
• 1996 OCÉBNA Prize for industrial Architecture [Garbagetransferstation Elhorst/ Vloedbelt]
• 1996 National Steelprize honorable mention [Garbagetransferstation Elhorst/ Vloedbelt]

Projects [edit]

• 2007 CET Budapest, Budapest, Hungary [1]
• 2007 Landmark, Kaiserslautern Germany
• 2007 Capital Centre, Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates
• 2007 Dubai Sports City, Dubai United Arab Emirates
• 2007 Drents Museum, Assen the Netherlands
• 2007 F side, 56 houses Bijlmermeer Amsterdam
• 2007 BMW Ekris Headlights
• 2006 iWeb TU Delft
• 2006 Digital Pavilion, Seoul South Korea
• 2006 Acoustic Barrier
• 2005 Hessing Cockpit
• 2005 Masterplan Automotive Complex
• 2002 Web of North-Holland Floriade
• 2002 TT Monument
• 2000 8*Bit Housing
• 1998 Family Zoetermeer
• 1998 TGV Housing
• 1997 Saltwaterpavilion Neeltje Jans Zeeland
• 1997 Music sculpture
• 1995 Dancing Facades
• 1995 Elhorst / Vloedbelt Garbagetransferstation
• 1994 Daken Housing
• 1994 Dijken Housing
• 1993 De Kassen Kattenbroek
• 1991 Drive-in Patio Housing the Hague
• 1991 Villa Hutten
• 1987 BRN Catering

Writings [edit]

• 2007 iA # 1 Interactive Architecture (bookzine), Episode Publishers Rotterdam
• 2006 ONL monography, Images publishers Australia
• 2006 ONL Hyperbody Logic, AADCU publicatishers, Beijing, China
• 2006 GameSetandMatch II, Episode Publisher
• 2004 BCN Speed and Friction, ESARQ Barcelona
• 2004 Gamesetandmatch, TU Delft
• 2003 hyperbodies towards an e*motive architecture Birkhäuser Verlag
• 2002 architecture goes wild 010 publishers
• 2002 programmable architecture l’ARCAEDIZIONI
• 2001 Emotive Architecture Inaugural Speech, Faculty of Architecture TU Delft
• 1999 vectorial bodies archis^{[disambiguation needed]} 6/99
• 1998 Kas Oosterhuis architect Ilona Lénárd visual artist 010 publishers
• 1995 sculpture city book+cd rom 010 publishers
• 1990 the open volume wiederhall 12

Exhibitions [edit]

• 2006 City Scape 2006, Dubai International Exhibition Centre Dubai
• 2006 Dutch Pavillion, the Big 5, Dubai International Exhibition Centre, Dubai
• 2006 ONL Architects Solo Exhibition at the Suzhou Creek Warehouse, Shanghai
• 2006 The 4th Shanghai International City Garden & Landscape Design Exhibition, Shanghai
• 2006 Sketch presented on on exhibition 'A sketch for London', the London Architecture Biennale
• 2006 DIAF Festival, Beijing
• 2006 Exhibition Yearbook Architecture in the Netherlands 2005/2006, Zutphen
• 2005 ONL*NUT architecture design Nanjing China
• 2005 'Avenir de Ville', Nancy, France
• 2005 mobilion, Rijkswaterstaat, Utrecht
• 2005 tradecom Dubai
• 2004 Archilab
• 2004 algorithmic revolution Karlsruhe
• 2004 digital fabricators exhibition London
• 2004 La Biennale, 9th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice
• 2003 Non-Standard Architecture Centre Pompidou Paris
• 2003 abc Haarlem
• 2003 Leblac Brussels
• 2003 Biennale Valencia
• 2003 Parasite paradise Utrecht
• 2002 Architekturmuseum München
• 2001 Blobmeister DAM^{[disambiguation needed]} Frankfurt
• 2001 Archilab III
• 2000 Biennale Venice (with Ilona Lénárd)
• 1999 Archilab I frac centre Orléans
• 1998 Smart materials AA London
• 1998 Transarchitectures03 NAi Rotterdam
• 1985 Architecture in LEGO Centre Pompidou Paris

External links [edit]

• oosterhuis.nl
• hyperbody.nl

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