Nine + one

The ten Dutch architectural offices brought together in this publication were personally selected by Kristin Feireiss, director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute. A pre-condition ofr inclusion was that participating architects should have their own architectural office. For the rest, all belong to a young generation that is building up an interesting personal oeuvre via competitions and with the help of start-up grants. This group of archtects has no ambition to form a new school. Hence the name NINE+ONE, which implies that there is always someone (never the same One) at odds with the rest. NINE+ONE are something of a paradox: while the ten offices have similar attitudes towards architecture this does not result in stulistically similar architecture. But this is the paradox of presentday reality, where new developments refuse to submit to traditional pigeon-holing. Perhaps what unites the participants in the NINE+ONE series most of all is an analytic approach.