Alex van de Beld - architect principal Onix

Alex van de Beld (1963) graduated Cum Laude as architect at the Academy of Architecture Groningen 1991

Alex is one of the founders of Onix, with offices in Groningen (1994) (Netherlands) and Helsingborg (2005) (Sweden).

The design attitude at Onix can be characterized as being a continuous search - a search oscillating between old and new, between change and improvement, between neutral and specific, between the obvious and alienation, and between the generic and the architect's signature.
Borders are deliberately transgressed during this search, so that the assignment can be stretched and new possibilities arise for the requested programme. The need for response on changing reality during the design process, challenges the designers to improvise and to get the most out of their design. This design attitude works as a mechanism to resist the obvious and create something unique - a work in progress in which any penchant for the past and the future is rejected. Thus architecture becomes a product of the present.


Projects - a selection

- Parking-lot and office in Groningen, The Netherlands
- Houses for the IBA in Hamburg, Germany
- Houses and childerens daycare centre in Stavanger, Norway
- Houses and childerens daycare centre in Helsingborg, Sweden
- Masterplan business area Haren, The Netherlands

Publications - a selection

Latest publication: De Architect, November 2007, for more see list of publications on the website.

Teaching experience:

Alex van de Beld was supervisor for several graduate students of the Academy for Architecture in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Groningen and gave several lectures on educational institution.


Remaining activities besides Onix:

- 2007 member of the jury Europan, The Netherlands
- 2003 Workshop leader of Havn City, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 2004 Alex van de Beld represented Onix as one of the three Dutch bureaus from Holland at the YEA (Young European Architects) meeting in Rotterdam.
- 2005 Workshop leader of nEstonia in Estonia.
- 2005 Workshopleader of Archiprix international, Glasgow.
- 1992 Archiprix selection ‘Distrance’ A.vande Beld & H. Meijer
- 1990 Archiprix selection ‘Havenfront Harlingen’ A. van de Beld


http://www.onix.nl