Rogier van der Heide
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| Rogier van der Heide, Designer, The Netherlands | |
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| Born | 1970 Bennebroek, The Netherlands |
| Awards | IALD Radiance Award Lighting Designer of the Year Award International Lighting Designer Award of Excellence Edison Award of Excellence |
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| 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, Bennebroek, The Netherlands) is a designer based in The Netherlands, who has contributed to public and commercial places all over the world.
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[edit] Life
van der Heide studied at the Institut Superieur des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium, and the Amsterdam School of the Arts, The Netherlands.[citation needed] 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". [1]
In March 2010, van der Heide joined Philips Electronics as Vice President of Philips and Chief Design Officer of Philips Lighting.[2]
[edit] The early years: theatre design
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. 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. 1994, van der Heide left the practice, and became a founding principal at Hollands Licht Advanced Design, the practice that he would own, lead and direct for ten years.[3]
[edit] 1994–2003: architectural lighting design
The Hollands Licht practice completed projects in London, Tokyo, Amsterdam and other cities world wide. Other international projects included: The UK's National Museum of Science and Industry's Wellcome 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). He received several awards during the Hollands Licht period including the Edison Award of Excellence (2000), and the Lighting Designer of the Year Award (1999) presented by the magazine Lighting Dimensions of New York City.[4] The practice's most recently completed work, Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Abu Dhabi, got only finished in 2011, over ten years after the Abu Dhabi Municipality commissioned the lighting design.[5]
[edit] 2004–2010: Arup
Van der Heide joined the Arup practice in 2004, and subsequently worked on projects including Star Place in Taiwan and Galleria West in South Korea, both in collaboration with Ben van Berkel's and the 2004 Architecture Biennale show in Venice in collaboration with Hani Rashid of Asymptote.[6] He was a Director with Arup. He was also Arup's Global Leader of the lighting design business.
In 2005, van der Heide was the first European designer to receive International Association of Lighting Designer's Radiance Award, the most prestigious accolade in the industry. For his Louis Vuitton work, he received the International Lighting Design Award of Excellence in 2006.[7]
Recent projects by van der Heide are the Al Raha Beach Tower in Abu Dhabi with architect Asymptote, Dubai Maritime City Landmark Tower with architect Nikken Sekkei, the YAS Marina Hotel in Abu Dhabi, work for the Tate Modern in London and work for various fashion retailers. During his time at Arup, most of Rogier's work was executed in close collaboration with his team in Amsterdam or Arup Lighting in London. The practice has got other lighting design teams in New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Melbourne, and Tokyo.
In 2008, together with his students of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, van der Heide created the light sculpture "Force Field" in London. In 2010, he developed one of the art installations for Swarovski at the Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy.[8]
[edit] 2010 and 2011: work at Philips
Since 1 March 2010, Rogier van der Heide has been Vice President and Chief Design Officer of Philips Lighting.[9] The job of a chief design officer is to make design contribute maximum to the value of the business. Besides, Van der Heide continues to grow his portfolio of design projects:
- Costumes for the band Black Eyed Peas
- The design "Dream Cloud" for Swarovski
- Lighting for the cinematographic production "A Day in the Life of the Castle" with Peter Greenaway
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=3072 Metropolis Magazine, December 2007
- ^ http://www.newscenter.philips.com/main/standard/news/press/2010/20100224_cdo.wpd official Philips press release
- ^ http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=3072
- ^ http://livedesignonline.com/mag/lighting_raising_arizona_array/
- ^ http://www.mondoarc.com/interviews/300979/rogier_van_der_heide.html
- ^ http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/asymptote_biennale.html
- ^ http://www.iald.org/about/awards/previous/award.asp?year=2006
- ^ http://www.brand.swarovski.com/Content.Node/ourinitiatives/architectureartdesign/swarovskicrystalpalaceexhibitions/salonedelmobile2010/salonedelmobileexhibition/saloneexhibition.fr.html
- ^ http://www.design.nl/item/rogier_van_der_heide_new_chief_design_officer_for_philips_lighting
