JASON HILGEFORT 1976, United States of America urbanist | architect | public space designer Founder of Land+Civilization Compositions; Professor Tilburg/Amsterdam Academy ; writer for uncube magazine jh@landandcc.com +31.652066173 Berkelselaan 50B Rotterdam the Netherlands 3037PG EXPERTISE Jason Hilgefort studied urban planning and design at The University of Cincinnati and architecture at The University of British Columbia. His work experience ranges from New York (Ehrenkrantz Eckstut and Kuhn), to Los Angeles (Behnisch Architects) to Mumbai (Rahul Mehrotra of GSD). From 2000 to 2004 he worked with renowned New Urbanist and Sustainable innovator Peter Calthorpe. He joined Maxwan A+U in 2007, he lead Central District Rotterdam and Barking Riverside in London. He was in charge of numerous competition victories – including Helsinki, Basel, Kiev, Brussels, Antwerp, Ostrava, Hannover, Magdeburg, and Kaunas. Jason won Europan 11 in Vienna. In 2012 he founded Land+Civilization Compositions for investigating issues of the built environment, ranging from daily objects, to infrastructures, to cultural research. Recently, Jason is part of FUR [Future Urban Regions] and through it is researching/working with Tilburg Academy as well as Amsterdam Academy. Also, he is a contributor to uncube magazine - writing on ‘architecture and beyond’. Currently, Jason is the director of the Shenzhen Architecture Biennale’s educational program – the Aformal.Academy: RE:learning the City.
EDUCATION 2007 2000 1995-2007
The University of British Columbia – Vancouver, Canada. Master of Architecture The University of Cincinnati – USA. Bachelor of Urban Planning, with a focus on Urban Design Additional studies in China, Cuba, India, and Italy
EXPERIENCE 2014 2013201320122011 2011 2007-2013 2007 2006 2005 2000–2004
Zones Urbaines Sensibles, Rotterdam Founder PAMFLET Contributor to uncube magazine Founder of Land+Civilization Compositions Founding partner of Impressively Simple – Urbanism|Landscape|Architecture Won Europan 11, Vienna Maxwan architects + urbanists, Rotterdam Rahul Mehrotra Associates, Mumbai Behnisch Architects, Los Angeles Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn, New York Calthorpe Associates, Berkeley
ACADEMIC | EXHIBITION | RESEARCH 201420142015 2014 2014 2014 2014 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012 2012 2011 2011 2011 2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2007 2006 2003&2004
Professor Amsterdam Academy Professor at Tilburg Academy – focused research on the future of the Eindhoven region Summer workshop in Venice on Veneto Region with students from Tilburg, Venice and Seoul Summer Studio Galapagos Islands with students from TEC Montery, Melbourne U, and Ecuador Installation/curation of UrbanFabric in ZigZagCity in relation to Rotterdam Architecture Biennale Film Agoraphobia exhibited at Shenzhen Biennale, Budapest Architecture Film Days Member of Wonderland platform for European Architecture Invited speaker to New Generations Festival for emerging European architects in Milan Workshop leader for ‘Rethinking Felberstrasse’ as part of Wonderland Project Space Austria Architecture Residency at Vienna Architecture Center Tutor CANactions 2013 in Kiev on ‘Top down strategies for bottom up urbanism’ Speaker at American University Cairo on ‘Urban regeneration: beyond the building’ Guest professor at Parsons The New School for Design Guest professor at HafenCity University Hamburg Guest professor at Tilburg Academy Architecture + Urbanism Tutor for Adaptive Waterscapes - Porto Alegre, BR on water resilience, urbanism and landscapes Workshop leader for Soundings for Architecture/Highrise-Shuffle Conference in Helsinki Guest Professor at Rotterdam Academy of Architecture Published research in The Architecture of Knowledge: The Library of the Future Visiting Critic at Amsterdam Academy of Architecture Tutor CANactions 2010 in Kiev, results exhibited in the Moscow Biennale 2010 Tutor for LINKED, Ulyanovsk, Russia summer school for urbanism, design and architecture Mentor for NAI, Rotterdam and The Architecture of Knowledge workshop and later publication BASE Gallery Beijing, CN Exhibition of work on emerging public spaces Research Assistant at the Design Centre for Sustainability - UBC Vancouver, CA Presenter 2003 & 2004 ECO WAVE Conference San Francisco, USA