Ole Bouman

Ole Bouman (born 1960, Amsterdam is Founding Director of the Shekou Design Museum, an initiative of China Merchants Group and the Victoria and Albert Museum, due to open in 2017 in a building designed by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki.

Bouman began his career in The Netherlands as art and architecture critic of De Groene Amsterdammer, for which he wrote a weekly column between 1987 and 1997.

In 1994 he published The Invisible in Architecture, a comprehensive and critical overview of contemporary architecture. Co-author was Roemer van Toorn.

In 1996 Bouman curated the Dutch entry to the Triennale di Milano, with an installation that reflected upon the future of architecture in the digital age. He continued by publishing the essay RealSpace in QuickTimes on the effect digital technology will have on the idea of mankind and how it expresses itself in building.

After these publications, Bouman was appointed editor in chief of the international architecture magazine Archis, which lasted until 2004. In 2005 he launched a successor to Archis, called Volume. Contributing editors were Rem Koolhaas and Mark Wigley.

The last issue Bouman edited in 2007, covered his research for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presented as an imaginary Studio for Unsolicited Architecture, which pre-empted a new responsibility of architecture to invent its own mandate and market in an age of crisis.

In 1998 Bouman, by invitation of director Chris Dercon, curated an exhibition in the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen called Egotecture, which featured works from the collection depicting 500 years of interaction between space projections and the human self-image.

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