Oliver Schütte
*291270 Bonn / Germany
Architect
Urbanist
Oliver Schütte graduated as an architect in Aachen (Germany). After working with Eisenman Architects
and the sculptor Richard Serra in New York (U.S.A.) in 1997 / 1998, he joined Rem Koolhaas / OMAMO for a six year period in Rotterdam
(The Netherlands). Accomplished projects include the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe as well as the New Dutch Embassy in Berlin (Germany), which won the Mies van der Rohe Price in 2005. Oliver worked on the McCormick Tribune Campus Center at the Illinois Institute of Chicago (U.S.A.), the House in Bordeaux (France), the Masterplan for the City of Breda (The Netherlands) and the Preservation Plan for Beijing (China), amongst others.
In 2005, he founded the multidisciplinary A Company and A Foundation (A 01) together with Dutch anthropologist / economist Marije van Lidth de Jeude, promoting an integrally sustainable urban and rural development.
Oliver is specialized in climate dependent architecture and urban design, he is currently developing projects in Europe and Latin America. His work, texts and articles are published internationally; he is engaged in numerous academic activities at universities worldwide, including the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux (France), the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Managua (Nicaragua), the University of Houston and the New York Institute for Technology (U.S.A.), as well as the Universidad de Costa Rica and the Universidad Veritas in San José (Costa Rica).
Marije van Lidth de Jeude
*240972 Utrecht / The Netherlands
Cultural Anthropologist
Commercial Economist
Marije van Lidth de Jeude received degrees in Commercial Economy and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) and worked in various International Cooperation Agencies such as Oxfam Novib, city links between Nicaragua and The Netherlands as well as the Dutch Ministry of Development Cooperation.
Since 2002, Marije is working in Latin America in the field of project management for social-economic development in urban and rural areas. Her focus is set upon themes like technical, business and financial services for community based organizations and small enterprises; social-economic vulnerability; migration; gender; natural resources; indigenous people. She is experienced in participatory methods, analysis of social-economic contexts and project management (from formulation to implementation and evaluation).
Between 2002 and 2005, she worked for United Nations Organization IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), based in the Regional Unit for Technical Assistance (RUTA) in Costa Rica. After co-founding A Company and A Foundation (A 01) in 2005, she was leading, amongst other projects, the research on urban culture for the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) and PRUGAM, an urban planning program of the Costa Rican Government, which was co-financed by the European Union. From 2008 to 2011, she worked as an investigator at the Center for Rural Development (CDR) in Costa Rica, where she continues her involvement as an associate consultant.