Bachelor Interieurarchitectuur en Meubelontwerpen

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. Since 2020 he practices ‘embedded’ architecture. Two projects evolved from this practice: housebelsito.it which is a house for schools that offers room for regional cultural research. Another project that evolved from his embedded practice is postpioneering in Berlin, which is a research to gentrification in that city.