Rogier van der Heide
| Rogier van der Heide, Designer, The Netherlands | |
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| Born | 1970 (age 46–47) Bennebroek, The Netherlands |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | IALD Radiance Award Lighting Designer of the Year Award International Lighting Designer Award of Excellence Edison Award of Excellence Red Dot Award Best of the Best iF Gold Award FX Design Award |
| Projects | Star Place, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Galleria West, Seoul, South Korea Amsterdam Public Library, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Wellcome Wing at the Science Museum, London, UK California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA Prada Fall Winter 08–09 Fashion Show, Milan, Italy |
| Design | Galleria West, Seoul Sheikh Zayed Bridge, Abu Dhabi YAS Marina Hotel, Abu Dhabi, Star Place, Kaohsiung |
Rogier van der Heide (born 1970 in Bennebroek, the Netherlands) is a designer born in the Netherlands who currently lives in Liechtenstein. He is noted especially as a C-suite design executive and as a lighting designer of public and commercial projects all over the world.
Van der Heide grew up in the village of Bennebroek, close to the beach in The Netherlands. During high school, he already created plays, musical, radio programs and movies. Van der Heide studied at the Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts "St. Luc" in Brussels, Belgium, and the Amsterdam School of the Arts, the Netherlands. He worked until 2003 as an independent designer before joining the design and consulting practice, Arup. In December 2007, Metropolis Magazine included a feature on him, describing him as "Arup's Brilliant Master of Light".
Besides his work as a designer, Rogier is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Amsterdam Light Festival
In 1989, Rogier van der Heide started working as a theatre lighting designer in the Netherlands, designing the lighting for a number of Dutch theatre groups and the productions of author and director, Geert Kimpen. In 1990 he joined the Amsterdam-based design practice, Hans Wolff & Partners, who, at that time, specialized in architectural lighting design and theatre consulting. Most notably, Rogier van der Heide worked for HW&P on the renovation of the Royal Flemish Opera in Ghent, Belgium. In 1994, van der Heide left the practice and became a founding principal at the Hollands Licht Advanced Design, a practice that he would own, lead and direct for ten years.
The Hollands Licht practice completed projects in London, Tokyo, Amsterdam and other cities worldwide. Other international projects included: The UK's National Museum of Science and Industry's Welcome Wing (1999, architect Sir Richard MacCormac), the Mind Zone in the Millennium Dome (1999), Renzo Piano's Academy of Sciences in San Francisco (2002 and onwards) and Hani Rashid's Hydrapier Pavilion in the Netherlands (2002).
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