Hanneke van Deursen Portfolio 2020
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Contents Academic 6 Truth Games 16 Precarious Equilibrium 24 Other Landscapes 30 Lloyd’s
Professional 38 SPORTS 40 Architecture Office 42 Studio AAAN 44 Powerhouse Company
About 46 Personal Photography 50 Contact
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Hanneke van Deursen
2020
Hanneke van Deursen T: +1 (507) 990 3019 E: hanneke.e.vandeursen@gmail.com
Honors 1
Dean’s Citation for Excellence in Thesis Design
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TED Talk
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Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Funding
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Undergraduate Research Grant
May 2019 / SOURCE / Independent Research Grant
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Alpha Rho Chi Medal
May 2020 / Syracuse University / Graduation Award
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2020 A.I.A. Henry Adams Medal
May 2020 / Syracuse University / Graduation Award
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King + King Prize
May 2019 / First Place / Prize for Best Integrated Studio Project
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Professor’s Award for Academic Achievement
May 2019 / Syracuse University London / First Place
Jul 2020 / Micheal Speaks Truth Games: Naturalizing the Neoliberal Subject
Feb 2020 / TEDxSyracuseUniversity ‘How Buildings Talk to Us’ shares the underlying voice of architecture with a broader audience. The talk presents summer 2019 Filipino Dream House research. https://youtu.be/kxIGCGRgCy0
Jan 2020 / Renée Crown Honors Program / Research Grant Grant for a three-part film series in support of thesis work which was produced in week-long on-site immersions in Hudson Yards, Canary Wharf, and Kop van Zuid
(In)Dependence and Identity: Exploring the Filipino Dream House
Awarded for true professional merit in service, leadership, and academics
Awarded to the highest ranking graduating student in the B.Arch program
For ethnographic research essays written on culture and identity in London
Skills
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Digital
Illustrator / Photoshop / InDesign / Premiere Rhino / SketchUp / VRay / ArchiCAD / AutoCAD / Revit
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Language
English / Native Dutch / Fluent Spanish / Conversational (B2)
CV
Education 1
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Aug 2015 - May 2020 / Bachelor’s of Architecture Graduated Summa Cum Laude with Honors / 3.94 GPA 5-year professional degree (RIBA Part II qualified). RenÊe Crown Honors Program.
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3+ Cities Asia
Jun 2019 - July 2019 / Syracuse University with Professor Bing Bu
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Syracuse University London
Jan 2018 - May 2018 / Davide Sacconi and Anne Munly
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Panoramas of the Post-Human City
Oct 2017 / Liam Young
Traveling urban studio studying the megacities: Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong
Study abroad program based in London
Workshop on the principles of world-building in animated film
Experience 1
Powerhouse Company
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018 / Rotterdam / Technical Consultant + Research Assistant May 2018 - Aug 2018 / Rotterdam / Architectural Intern Worked closely with project architect on design development of a high-end villa. Managed project timeline, produced presentation books, directed communication between team members, technical team, and render team. Collaborated on the conception of an Architecture / Finance research team, which developed into a studio at Independent School for the City.
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Architecture Office
Jan 2017 - May 2019 / Syracuse / Research Assistant
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SPORTS
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019 / Syracuse / Design Intern
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Studio AAAN
May 2017 - Aug 2017 / Rotterdam / Architectural Intern
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AV62 Arquitectos
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016 / Barcelona / Architectural Intern
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Syracuse University
Aug 2019 - May 2020 / Syracuse / Undergraduate Teaching Aid
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Syracuse University
Aug 2017 - May 2019 / Syracuse / Tutor (Building Systems and Arch. Theory)
Developed models and presentation drawings for various projects including the Swissness Applied exhibition now on international tour.
Created models, drawings, and design iterations for winning competition entries. Prepared and uninstalled an installation for the Arch League Beaux Arts Ball 2019.
Partnered with founders on projects including: the design of an office interior, a large model for a neighborhood meeting, client relations, translating project text, photographing finished projects, and testing ideas through models and drawing.
Produced models and diagrams and translated poetic project text from Spanish to English.
Led, taught, and critiqued a section of twenty first-year students together with a graduate teaching assistant in manual drawing skills (Fall) and digital drawing skills (Spring) in a studio setting and in the field.
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Francisco Sanin / Thesis 2020
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Truth Games: Naturalizing the Neoliberal Subject
Truth Games Naturalizing the Neoliberal Subject 1 This thesis analyzes Neoliberalism, and architecture as its active agent, not only in constructing space, but constructing subjectivity within that space. If Neoliberalism exists in two forms, policy and ideology, I contend that architecture serves as a mediator between these forms: shaped by policy and naturalizing ideology. Truth Games – constructed “truths” which embed themselves in common knowledge and practice – allow the city to appear as banal and incidental, maybe even nice. However, the urban environment is a powerful weapon. The Truth Games embedded in architecture legitimate forms of power that operate on and through the constitution of the self (as per Foucault). This thesis operates upon the hypothesis that the city can be read, delaminated, unmasked, in order to script its Truth Games and therein begin to subvert them. 2 The array of Neoliberal policies manifest particular environments which aggressively naturalize Neoliberal subjectivity. I collect these spaces under the term, Capital Imaginaries, as they take on a utopian image of the city according to the market. It is within these islands of raw and exaggerated capital that Truth Games, typically obscured, sit in the foreground and begin to expose themselves. 7
3 The Capital Imaginaries of Kop van Zuid (Rotterdam), Canary Wharf (London), and Hudson Yards (New York) become the subjects of this examination, each revealing one aspect of the market’s ideal subject. The thesis works to uncover their truths hidden in plain sight, through the mechanisms of timelines, voyeuristic films, financial diagramming, and mappings of subjectivity. This unmasking of the city led me back to the 1970s ideas of radical architecture: Superstudio, Archizoom, and OMA. I took ‘the manifesto’ as an operation, and revised Archizoom’s – by extension revising the images they use to explore their ideas and reediting them in relation to my three subjects. These ideas are collected in a digital exhibition, providing multiple paths that take one through layers of information on the same issue. This website architecture is akin to the layering and unmasking that the project aims to do, and constructs a truth within itself. 4 The exhibition is a call to see. To criticize. To reexamine the banal. The city is not incidental. It is deliberately constructed.
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Francisco Sanin / Thesis 2020
Created by Neoliberal Policy
Investigation into the geographic, political, legal, and economic context of Capital Imaginaries
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Truth Games: Naturalizing the Neoliberal Subject
Neoliberalism
Unpacking ‘Neoliberalism’ as both policy and ideology
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Francisco Sanin / Thesis 2020
Kop van Zuid: The Depoliticized Individual
Canary Wharf: The Uncritical Laborer
Hudson Yards: The Entertained Consumer
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Truth Games: Naturalizing the Neoliberal Subject
The Long Take
Three voyeaurist research films produced in week-long site immersions and a film installation
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Francisco Sanin / Thesis 2020
Truth Games
Assumptions embedded in everyday life
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Truth Games: Naturalizing the Neoliberal Subject
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Francisco Sanin / Thesis 2020
Revised Manifesto
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OMA / Kop van Zuid
Truth Games: Naturalizing the Neoliberal Subject
Superstudio / Canary Wharf
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Archizoom / Hudson Yards
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Marcos Parga / Comprehensive Studio 2019
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Precarious Equilibrium
Precarious Equilibrium Learning from the (In)stability of the Gymnast 1 This project looks to the physics and values of gymnastics to pursue a low-resolution/high-performance project. The spectacle of gymnastics is predicated on the seeming impossibility of its feats. The massing pursues the question: how can a composition be created which is structurally sound, but looks in danger of tipping over? 2 In the development of this project, there was serious rigor required to preserve the legibility of the simple volumes. Through the detailing process, the ‘dumb’ diagram begins to resolve as a highly complex architecture. 3 King + King Prize winning Comprehensive Design Studio project. 4 Project in collaboration with Tanvi Marina Rao, all work collaborative unless otherwise noted.
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Marcos Parga / Comprehensive Studio 2019
1/8� Model. Acrylic and Museum Board
Model by Hanneke van Deursen
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Precarious Equilibrium
Exterior Perspective
Image by Hanneke van Deursen
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Marcos Parga / Comprehensive Studio 2019
Isometric Construction Detail
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Precarious Equilibrium
Construction Section
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Marcos Parga / Comprehensive Studio 2019
Complete Drawing Set
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Precarious Equilibrium
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Molly Hunker / Seminar 2017
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Other Landscapes
Other Landscapes Meticulous Mapping in Pursuit of the Other 1 Exploiting traditional cartographic language and technique, each of the 2 x 2 m drawing’s layers explores the potentials of a particular mapmaking strategy. Using an aerial photograph by Alex MacLean for initial reference, the drawing was built up in layers and slowly departs from the reality of the initial photograph. The resultant landscape is not a reproduction nor representation of the MacLean photograph, but rather a new landscape in and of itself. The six layers accumulate to create a 1:1 representation of an “other” landscape. 2 After the drawing was complete, it was reimagined as a three-dimensional space. This space became the mold for vacuum forming techniques. The experimental models continue to push the potential “otherness” of the represented landscape.
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Molly Hunker / Seminar 2017
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Other Landscapes
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Molly Hunker / Seminar 2017
Contour 28
Land Use
Annotation
Hatch
Color
Air Quality
Other Landscapes
Experimental models of the drawn landscape 29
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Anne Munley, Davide Sacconi, Owen Watson / London Studio 2018
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Lloyd’s
Lloyd’s Questioning Definitions of Ruin and Craft 1 During the international studio in London, our semester revolved around ‘ruin’ and ‘craft’. The definitions of these themes were pushed and pulled as the iconic Lloyd’s of London was taken through the construction of a 1:50 hand-cut model, an interpretation of that model as ruin, a design intervention within that ruin, and a final remodeling of that intervention. 2 The work of the studio was finally collected and organized by the students in an exhibition. 3 As most of the projects were done in large groups, this body of work is the result of learning to work together, time management, and leadership, bringing the team towards a single design goal.
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Anne Munley, Davide Sacconi, Owen Watson / London Studio 2018
Lloyd’s in Growing Ruin
In collaboration with Jonathan Pang and Eliza Williamson
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Lloyd’s
Exhibition Catalog
Graphic Design by Hanneke van Deursen
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Anne Munley, Davide Sacconi, Owen Watson / London Studio 2018
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Lloyd’s of London, Handcut Foamcore, 1:50
In collaboration with Jonathan Pang, Eliza Williamson, Saheli Motiani, Kate Kini, and Rachel Baker
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Lloyd’s
Exhibition Catalog
Graphic Design by Hanneke van Deursen
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Hanneke van Deursen
2017 - 2019
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Professional Work
Professional Work Selected Works 1 SPORTS Molly Hunker / Greg Corso 2 Architecture Office Nicole McIntosh / Jonathan Louie 3 Studio AAAN Rik de Ruiter / Luuk Stoltenborg 4 Powerhouse Company Nanne de Ru 5 (Left) Model built for Architecture Office
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SPORTS / 2019
Ceiling Unlimited, an installation for the Arch League Beaux Arts Ball 2019
Prepared materials, photographed installation, and took down the piece
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Professional Work
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Architecture Office / 2017
Swissness Applied Exhibition
Selection of several models built for exhibition(s)
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Professional Work
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Studio AAAN / 2017
Merlijn School
Photographed and Photoshopped for Studio AAAN
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Professional Work
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Powerhouse Company / 2018
Timeline derived from Fondazione Prada Case Study
Created for Powerhouse Company’s Follow the Money Research Initiative
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Professional Work
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iPhone / 2018
Personal Photography
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iPhone / 2018
Personal Photography
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Hanneke van Deursen
Hanneke van Deursen IG: hannekevand T: +1 (507) 990 3019 E: hanneke.e.vandeursen@gmail.com
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