Carel Weeber Field Trip

A day long field trip

On 20 September we will organise a bus trip to legendary architect Carel Weeber’s most impressive and controversial buildings, from the centre and the postindustrial port area of Rotterdam to the seventies new towns of Alphen aan de Rijn and Spijkenisse. We will see a technicolor jail, iconic metrostations and imposing social housing projects. Our guide will be Wouter Vanstiphout, the author of the book on Weeber 'Autonoom: 100% Carel Weeber’, published by Maas/Lawrence. Hurry with signing up; the seats on the bus are limited!

About Wouter Vanstiphout
Wouter Vanstiphout is an architectural historian at Crimson Historians & Urbanists. From 2009 until 2020 he was the Design as Politics professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Delft. Before that he held professorships at the Technical University of Berlin and the Academy of Art in Vienna. From 2000 until 2007 he directed the experimental WiMBY! (Welcome into My Backyard!) project for the urban renewal of the Rotterdam Satellite town of Hoogvliet, together with Michelle Provoost and Felix Rottenberg. Vanstiphout was awarded the Maaskant award for young architects in 2002, the Erasmus research prize for his PhD. thesis in 2005 and the Pierre Bayle award for architectural criticism in 2015. In 2014 he curated the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale together with Sam Jacob. From 2012 until 2016 he was a member of the Council for the Environment and infrastructure, an advisory body to the Dutch national government. In 2018, together with Crimson and ZUS, he founded the Independent School for the City, for which he is a member of the Dean Team.

100% Carel Weeber

This book on Carel Weeber, written by Architectural Historian Wouter Vanstiphout, does only cover Weebers work but also his life, from his youth in Curaçao until his career as The Netherlands most controversial architect, including his surprisingly productive period as an ‘ex’architect. In an original way Vanstiphout analyzes Weeber’s architecture and urban design, the development of his ideas, his role in the architectural education and his contributions to the Dutch architectural culture since the sixties. Moreover he convincingly demonstrates how personal the apparently impersonal, ‘objective’  designs by Carel Weeber have always been. You can buy the book here