ANDRÉ KEMPE

Born in Freiberg, East Germany, in 1968 and stud­ied at the TU Dres­den. He is a found­ing part­ner of the Rot­ter­dam based firm Ate­lier Kempe Thill, which he directs together with Oliver Thill since 2000. André Kempe has been engaged as studio master at the Delft Uni­ver­sity of Tech­nol­ogy and the Acad­e­mie van Bouwkunst in both Arn­hem and Rot­ter­dam. He was an invited pro­fes­sor at the EPF Lau­sanne, PSBA Düsseldorf and the TU Berlin. He teaches currently as a professor at the PSBA Düsseldorf. André Kempe has given more than one hun­dred pub­lic lec­tures world­wide. He was a board mem­ber of Young Euro­pean Archi­tects and is cur­rently board mem­ber of the MONU magazine and Europan NL.