Oliver Schütte
*291270 Bonn / Germany
Architect
Urbanist
Oliver Schütte gradutated as Architect in Aachen (Germany); he worked in New York (U.S.A.) with Eisenman Architects
and Richard Serra on the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin (Germany), the Museum of Arts and Sciences
in Staten Island, New York (U.S.A.), the IIT Chicago, Illinois (U.S.A.). Since 1998 (freelance since 2003), Oliver is working with Rem Koolhaas / OMA in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). Accomplished projects include the House in Bordeaux (France) and the New Dutch Embassy in Berlin (Germany), which won the Mies van der Rohe Price in 2005.
He is founding partner of the multidisciplinary A company and A foundation (A 01), together with Dutch anthropologist
Marije van Lidth de Jeude. He co-founded the urban think tank Micropolis with leading architects in Costa Rica.
Oliver Schütte is engaged in numerous academic activities at universities like the Universidad Nacional de Ingeneria in Managua (Nicaragua), the University of Houston (U.S.A.), the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux (France) as well as the Universidad de Costa Rica and 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 is a founding partner of A company and A foundation. She received degrees in Commercial Economy and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands); she worked in various International Cooperation Agencies such as Oxfam and Novib, city links between Nicaragua and The Netherlands as well as the Dutch Ministry of Development Cooperation.
Since 2002, Marije is working in Central 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; organic agriculture; social-economic vulnerability; indigenous people, international migration; gender and natural resources. She is experienced in participatory methods and analysis of social and economic contexts, especially in Latin America.
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 San José, Costa Rica. She is now working as project director for A 01 and consultant investigator at the Center for Rural Development (CDR) in Costa Rica.