Ole Bouman, director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI)
Ole Bouman is at present editor-in-chief of the journal Volume, which is jointly produced by Stichting Archis, AMO (the research bureau of OMA/Rem Koolhaas) and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University. He is curator of a series of public events for the reconstruction of the public domain in cities plagued by violence such as Ramallah, Mexico City, Beirut and Prishtina. Ole Bouman is a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge MA.
Ole Bouman is co-author of the encyclopaedia The Invisible in Architecture (1994) and the manifestos RealSpace in QuickTimes (1996) and De Strijd om Tijd (2003). He has curated exhibitions for the Milan Triennale, Manifesta 3, and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. His articles have been published in De Groene Amsterdammer, The Independent, Artforum, De Gids, Domus, Harvard Design Review, El Croquis, Arquitectura & Viva, Proiekt Russia and elsewhere. Ole Bouman regularly lectures at universities and cultural institutions with an international reputation.