Hi! I am Friso, a recently graduated architect and photographer. Design has been my main source of energy for about as long as I remember. This drove me to pursue architecture when I was choosing my field of study.
I graduated cum laude with a Master of Science degree from TU Delft with the project: ‘In Shadows we Boogie’. While working on this project I realized that what I had been missing in my prior education was space for an experimental and theoretical approach to architecture. During my graduation project I got completely engrossed in this architectural research. In “In Shadows we Boogie” I addressed the topic of how Light and Shadow are capable of both creating and destroying our understanding of 3D space. Eventually creating an architecture that attempts to map the natural movement of sunlight and the earth in relation to each other. Creating spaces where this ever shifting relationship between figure, ground and viewer is warped and inverted. Investigating whether matter could fall on light, the way that light falls on matter in our visual understanding of space.
In my gap year between the bachelor and master I worked at BIG in Copenhagen for a half year. Here I mainly worked on creating a set of large scale modular student / starter housing concepts. Potentially streamlining future design processes by creating templates for successful buildings. Afterwards I moved back to Rotterdam to work at Powerhouse Company for another half year. Here I started working in the later stages of Dutch highrise projects, before moving on to working mostly on international competitions and pitches. Most of these projects were large scale and mixed function in nature. This culminated in contributing to the winning proposal for the IBM Headquarters in Amsterdam.
During my graduation I started to take my photography more serious, which culminated in the research project ‘A City from Shadow’. I am currently working on continuing this project separately as an independent artist. Individual photos from the project have been selected as part of the official selection of photography festivals (URBAN Photo awards Trieste / Triese Photo days and International Photo Awards) and competitions, as well as featured digitally in magazines and exhibitions. Currently I mostly work with monochrome medium format analog photography, in an attempt to create images that go beyond the purely representational and decouple from their context and subject matter.
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