Dam en Partners Architecten

Over the years the bureau has amassed a great deal of knowledge and expertise, upon which we continue to build. This quite naturally leads to an accumulation of new insights, and this defines the way we do research. The appearance of our buildings is extremely variable. For example, we quickly tend to discard a perfectly good aesthetic solution and start looking for a new one, in order to avoid repetition. Conversely, research into engineering and craftmanship leads to a continual expansion of knowledge and to ever more radical solutions. Innovation is self-generating. This is also how the bureau derives its organizational structure. We often let things emerge out of chaos, even as sound, structured systems underpin it. At the bureau, highly experienced people and young people work together - people with completely different backrounds. They come from a carpentry shop or from the university or from the art academy. What matters to us is an integration of knowledge and creativity in which you involve clients as well as, say, visual artists.