סמינר ירושלים באדריכלות

כנסי עבר // Speakers // 1998: Megaform as Urban Landscape

21 - 23 June 1998

Mels Crouwel

Upon graduation from the Technical University of Delft in 1978, Mels Crouwel joined with his colleague Jan Benthem to establish the partnership of Benthem and Crouwel. They first gained public recognition with a glass and metal panel experimental house that was completed at Alsmere in 1984 for Benthem's own occupation. In 1988, four years after they made their initial master plan for Schipol Airport, they received their first commission for an airport structure. Since then they have been constantly engaged in remodelling and expanding the airport, passing from the design of new terminal volumes to the re-working of both freight and passenger rail stations. Aside from designing office buildings, shopping facilities, laboratories and art galleries, they have established themselves as specialists in transportation infrastructures, designing rail-transit master plans for Utrecht (1986), The Hague (1997) and Amsterdam (1997). Their current work includes the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam; the Noord/Zuidlijn Subway Stations, Amsterdam; the Woonmall Shopping Centre, Amsterdam; the Rijksarcheif, Middleburg; and the Lelystad Business Airport Terminal. Among their numerous awards, Benthem and Crouwel have been recipients of the Van Eyck Prize (1985), the Kunstpreis Berlin (1989) and the Nationale Staalprijs (1994).

Mels Crouwel

Terminal West, Amsterdam Airport, Schiphol, The Netherlands
Benthem Crouwel Naco Architects
Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij