Winka Dubbeldam
| Winka Dubbeldam | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1966 (age 50–51) |
| Nationality | Dutch, American |
| Occupation | Architecture |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Notable work | As founder of Archi-Tectonics, Pro Bono Project in Monrovia, Greenwich Building and V33 building in New York, American Loft Building in Philadelphia, National Building Museum's 2004 exhibition on Masonry variations, Aida's House of Beauty in Manhattan. |
Winka Dubbeldam (born 1966) is a Dutch-American architect and academic. After her education in architectural design at Columbia University, she established her own firm, Archi-Tectonics (with 15 employees), in 1994 in New York City. Her use of a combination of sustainable materials, innovative and inventive building methods with adoption of digital techniques has rewarded her with many accolades for her architectural projects. She has earned a reputation as a leading figure in modern architectural designs which has also made her "a real estate newsmaker". She was a Professor of Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Her debut venture in building design was a residential house whose exhibits were displayed at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and Esquire magazine named her "Best and Brightest" in 2004. Her designs have also been exhibited in the Venice Biennale.
Dubbeldam was born in 1966 in the Netherlands. Her father headed a Dutch organization connected with police and fire services. After her initial schooling in the Netherlands, she studied architecture at the Institute of Higher Professional Architectural Education, Rotterdam, in 1990 and obtained a Master of Architecture degree. She then moved to New York in 1990 to study architecture at the Columbia University where the digital revolution in architecture was in a nascent state of evolution. She obtained her Master of Architecture Degree in Advanced Architectural Design (AAD) from this university in 1992. From 1992 to 1994 she worked with Peter Eisenman on projects which she termed as "investigations". She then established her own firm in New York, Archi-Tectonics, in 1994 and since then has been engaged in designing commercial and residential projects.
Dubbeldam, 6 feet (1.8 m) tall, generally attired in black, resides in her house which has black walls (which she says is "a little experiment"), with interior furnishings in black and white with tinge of purple shade.
Some of the key projects handled by Dubbeldam and her firm Archi-Tectonics are: The Greenwich Building and V33 building in New York City; the Ports1961 group "retail store" in Paris, London and Shanghai; the American Loft tower in Philadelphia, a 14 floor building of 60,000 square feet (5,600 m2) area, completed in 2009, which has 40 residential flats; a "pro-bono" design in Monrovia, Liberia for an orphanage for the MacDella Cooper Foundation and school in Liberia, and a design-research project for Downtown Bogota Liberia built with indigenous material like bamboo mats woven into the walls and hollow concrete blocks; the Yulin Design (a competition she won) in China; the "breathing" Holon Tower premiered in Paris and presented the "Augmented Reality" at the Gallery R'Pure in New York; the GW497 building with 11 floors covering an area of 80,000 square feet (7,400 m2) with a frontage of folded glass curtain wall (wave-like glass curtain wall) said to be the first "parametric design" developed by 3-D computer model; the Abu Dhabi Central Plaza Project completed in 2009 with a 50-floor hotel tower and 55-floor office tower; and the Aida's House of Beauty built in a narrow space in Manhattan with a blue-stone facade with an area of 2,000 square feet (190 m2) with "scissors-and-comb motif" on the salon's facade. Her firm won the "Design Competition for a Sustainable Neighborhood and Farmers Market" on Staten Island, New York.
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