October - November - December 1999

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Ruut Driessen wins Euregional Prize for Architecture 1999
December 1999
On the 25th of November in the German city Aachen the Euregional Prize for Architecture has been awarded for the best graduation project of the educational institutes in the region Maas-Rhine (the meeting point of Belguim, Germany and Holland). Ruut Driessen, who graduated from the Academy of Architecture in Maastricht (Holland) was awarded with the first prize (2500 Euro) for his entry 'UB 260'. An independent jury praised his conversion of an everyday problem into an eminent cultural solotion.

Urban Strategies - Urban Agency
November 1999
What is the meaning of urbanity if the city in its traditional sense is being replaced by a large number of urban zones, places, force fields and subcultures which precede the local and connect it to 'translocal' and even to local processes? The urban landscape is constantly changing - the outer limits of the city are becoming more diffuse, overlap with new technologic infrastructures while new cultural and social domains are created.

OMA awarded with Rietveldprijs for Educatorium
October 1999
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been awarded with the biennial Rietveldprize for its design of the university building Educatorium in Utrecht. It seems to be the first award in the Netherlands which will be accepted by the Rotterdam office of Rem Koolhaas.

The Berlage Institute moves to Rotterdam
October 1999
The Berlage Institute Amsterdam (BiA), a two-year postgraduate laboratory of architecture, will move to Rotterdam. From next year on the institute will be housed in the former Spaarbank building by the architect P.J.J. Oud. The reasons for the switch to Rotterdam are the possibilities given by a closer cooperation with the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Architecture Institute and the Eindhoven University of Technology, which the BiA hopes to find in the Rotterdam context. The number of participants in the course will increase to 60.