List of staff

Head of Interior Architecture and Furniture Design

Profile photo Herman Verkerk, Head Bachelor Interior Architecture at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague

Herman Verkerk

Herman Verkerk (1963) trained as an architect at the TU Delft and ETH Zürich from 1984-1990. In 1990 he formed EventArchitectuur, a design firm for time and experience based architecture with projects ranging from a temporary art museum, a series of landscape parks to shop interiors and temporary exhibitions and installations on contemporary culture for cultural institutes in the Netherlands and abroad. Verkerk has been teaching design, exhibition design and architecture at the Design Academy Eindhoven, Fachhochschule Düsseldorf, TU Delft and Sandberg Institute Amsterdam. Together with architect Rianne Makkink he co-founded Sloom.org, an organization that operates on slow growth processes. Since March 2015 he is head of the department for Interior Architecture and Furniture Design (IAFD) at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He edited a book on the temporary in architecture and twenty-five years of EventArchitectuur called EVENTS: Situating the Temporary published by Birkhauser Verlag in June 2017.

Coordinators

Mariska Beljon & Roosmarijn Hompe

Ronald van Tienhoven (replacing Willem Moeselaar)

Maja Pop Trajkova (IA & FD 1)
Maarten Kolk (IA & FD 2, 3 en 4)

Laura van Santen (IA & FD 1)
Nienke Sybrandy (IA & FD 2)
Maartje Lammers (IA & FD 3)
Ernie Mellegers (IA & FD 4)

Jan Harm ter Brugge - IA & FD technical coach
Aref Dashti - Studio tutor
Roosmarijn Hompe - Coordinator and Context tutor
Elena Khurtova - Media & Materials tutor
Diederik de Koning - Studio tutor
Zsofia Kollar - Studio tutor and Context tutor
Tessa Koot - Studio tutor
Harold Linker - Media & Materials tutor
Giulio Margheri - Studio tutor
Mark Minkjan - Context tutor
Jeroen Musch - Media & Materials tutor
Maja Pop Trajkova - Study coach and Studio tutor
David van der Stel - Media & Materials tutor

Recent guest teachers

Wieger Ambagts
Katayoun Arian
Francesco Apostoli
Rachel Borovska
Paulien Bremmer
Daan Brinkman
Alessandra Covini
Lionel Devlieger
Jonas Edvard
Liesbeth Fit
Quincy Gario
Carl Giskes
Elizaveta Glukova
Maaike Gottschal
Joseph Grima
Benjamin Groothuijse
Maarten Heijkamp
Lyndsey Housden
Guido van der Linden
Gabriel A. Maher
Regina Mol
Tommy de Moor
Lucas Muñoz
Jan Nauta
Bastiaan de Nennie
Ernst de Nobel
Thomas van Nus
Colin Peters
Lucie Ponard
Anna Sitnikova
Alice Smits
Manon Stoeltie
Ruben Verkuylen
Desmond Vink
Antonella Vitale