Bart Lootsma

Bart Lootsma(born 1957 inAmsterdam,Netherlands) studiedarchitectureat theEindhoven University of Technologyduring 1975–1984. He is ahistorian,critic, andcuratorin the fields of architecture, design, and fine arts. He holds the chair forarchitectural theoryat theLeopold-Franzens University of Innsbruckand is also professor at the Institute for History, Theory and Critic in Architecture at theAcademy of Applied Arts in Vienna.

As head of research, Lootsma worked at theETH Zurichand led research projects at theBerlage Institutein Amsterdam andRotterdam.He has also been appointed visiting professor at theAcademy of Fine Arts Nurembergand at theUniversity of Applied Arts in Vienna.Additionally, he was director of the Department for 3D-Design at theArnhem Academy of Art and Design.

Lootsma also taught several courses in architecture, design, and fine arts at different academies of Art and Architecture in the Netherlands. He was editor for numerous journals such asForum,ARCHIS,de Architect,andGAMand has acted as guest curator forArchiLab2004 inOrléansThe Naked City and curator at the Schneider-Forberg Foundation in Munich. Lootsma’s work has appeared in many journals, such asDOMUS,Archplus,l'Architecture d'Aujourd'huiandA+U.

Moreover, he was member of several state and municipal committees, such as the Planning Board Arnhem and served on theRotterdam Cultural Counciland the Fund forApplied Arts,Design,andArchitecture.Previously, theDutch Queenappointed him Crown Member of theDutch Culture Council.

The work of Bart Lootsma has been released in many publications, includingMedia and Architecturein collaboration with Dich Rijken (1998), his internationally known bookSuperDutch(2002), mostly dealing with Dutch Architecture, andArchiLab 2004: The Naked City,which was widely published in 2004.

Books

• Adriaan Geuze/West 8Landscape Architects,(together with Inge Breugem), 010, Rotterdam, 1995.
• Wim Cuyvers,De Singel,Antwerp, 1995.
• Wiel Arets,A virological architecture,Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel (together with Jos Bosman), 1996.
• Wiel Arets,De Singel,Antwerpen,1996.
• A Star is born,Together with Hélène Damen, Thoth, Bussum, 1996.
• Atelier van Lieshout,A Manual/ Ein Handbuch, Cantz, München (Together with ao. Rian van Rijsbergen), 1997.
• Yearbook Architecture in the Netherlands 1997,(Together with: Hans Ibelings, Hans van Dijk, Ton Verstegen), Nai Publishers, Rotterdam, 1998.
• Media and Architecture,(together with Dick Rijken), VPRO, Hilversum/Berlage Institute,Amsterdam, 1998.
• The Art of the Accident,(together with ao. Joke Brouwer, Nai Publishers, Rotterdam, 1998.
• Yearbook Architecture in The Netherlands 1998,(with Hans Ibelings, Hans van Dijk and Ton Verstegen), Nai Publishers, Rotterdam, 1999.
• Yearbook Architecture in the Netherlands 1999,(with: Hans Ibelings and Ton Verstegen), Nai Publishers, Rotterdam, 2000.
• SuperDutch,Thames & Hudson, London/Princeton Architectural Press, New York/DVA, Berlijn, SUN, Nijmegen, 2000.
• B&K+,Walter König Verlag/ACTAR, Cologne/Barcelona, 2003.
• ArchiLab 2004: La ville à nu/The naked city,HYX, Orléans, 2004.

External links

• Bart Lootsmain theGerman National Librarycatalogue
• Bart LootsmaatarchINFORM