Janny Rodermond new managing director for the Netherlands Architecture Fund August 26, 2002 Janny Rodermond will be replacing the present managing director Ruud Brouwers at the beginning of November this year. Currently Janny Rodermond is chief editor for the leading Dutch architecture magazine De Architect. Janny Rodermond working as a jurymember for the NAi prize 2002. photo: Saskia van Stein (thanks to the NAi) During the last five years of Brouwers directorship the fund has grown in size and importance. The fund has an amount of 10 million Euro to subsidise projects in architecture, urban planning and regional planning in the Netherlands. Janny Rodermond (1952) finished her studies urban and rural sociology at the Katholic University of Nijmegen in 1979. For more than twenty years she has been working in architecture journalism researching the interaction between architecture and society. Her daily involvement with a mixture of culture and commerce, in her duty as chief editor, has important similarity with running a contemporary design practice. Rodermond likes to take the challenge of using her diverge network and experience in the context of policy. Press release Netherlands Architecture Fund Translation and summary: Sebas Veldhuisen more information: Stimuleringsfonds