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Ole Bouman

b. 1960

Dutch-German historian (born 1960)

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About Ole Bouman

Born 1960. Ole Bouman is a Dutch art critic, art historian, architectural historian, exhibition curator, critic and editor.

Ole Bouman (born 1960, Amersfoort) is a Dutch German historian, writer, curator in urbanism design and architecture. Bouman is the founding director of Design Society, an initiative of China Merchants Group and the Victoria and Albert Museum in Shenzhen, which opened in December 2017.

Publications And justice for all… (1994) The Invisible in Architecture (1994) Destination Future (1996) RealSpace in QuickTimes: Architecture and Digitization (1997) Egotecture (1998) On the Age of Two Millennia: Essays on the Future of Architecture (1999) Kas Oosterhuis (2002) The Battle for Time (2003) Architecture, Liquid, Gas (2005) Disappearing Architecture: From Real to Virtual to Quantum (2005) Al Manakh (2007) Architecture of Consequence (2009) Testify! – the Consequences of Architecture (2011) Dutch Architecture in 250 Highlights (2012) Value Factory Academy: A School as Risk (2014, unpublished) The Making of Design Society (2017) Wang Shu and Amateur Architecture Studio (2017)

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Important facts

Born
1960, Amersfoort
Birth century
Education
University of Amsterdam

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Ole Bouman?

dutch-German historian (born 1960)

When was Ole Bouman born?

Ole Bouman was born in 1960 in Amersfoort.

What is Ole Bouman's occupation?

Ole Bouman is an art critic, art historian, architectural historian, exhibition curator, critic and editor.

What nationality is Ole Bouman?

Ole Bouman is Dutch.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Ole Bouman

· Wikidata: Q24263595

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