Head of Interior Architecture and Furniture Design
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
Corine Datema (IAFD1)
Femke Dekker (IAFD2)
Maarten Kolk (IAFD3 en IAFD4)
Maja Pop Trajkova
Maarten Kolk (IAFD1)
Nienke Sybrandy (IAFD2)
Maartje Lammers (IAFD3)
Ernie Mellegers (IAFD4)
Marjan van Aubel
Chris Kabel
Studio L A – Lorien Beijaert & Arna Mackic
Marina Otero Verzier
Wouter Pocornie
Krijn Christiaansen - Studio tutor
Aref Dashti - Studio tutor
Ola Hassanain – Studio tutor, Graduation tutor
Roosmarijn Hompe - Coordinator and Context tutor
Nur Horsanali – Context tutor
Elena Khurtova - Media & Materials tutor
Diederik de Koning - Studio tutor
Zsofia Kollar - Context tutor
Tessa Koot - Studio tutor
Harold Linker - Media & Materials tutor
Giulio Margheri - Studio tutor
Mark Minkjan - Context tutor
Cathelijne Montens - Studio tutor
Maja Pop Trajkova - ISTcoach 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
Hester van Dijk
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
Pavel Pokutycki
Lucie Ponard
Erik van Schaften
Anna Sitnikova
Jeannette Sluetter
Alice Smits
Manon Stoeltie
Tijs Struyk
Ruben Verkuylen
Desmond Vink
Antonella Vitale
