Ole Bouman

Ole Bouman, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1960, a cultural and architectural historian. Ole Bouman works as a curator and consultant in the fields of architecture, visual culture and politics.

Since 1988, he has covered these subjects in a column in the newspaper De Groene Amsterdammer (The Green Amsterdammer), and he is editor-in-chief of the magazine Archis. He also teaches architectural history at the Amsterdam Academy of Art. In addition, Bouman writes widely for various Dutch and international publications.

In 1994 Bouman, together with Roemer van Toorn, published the encyclopedic manifesto “The Invisible in Architecture”; an interdisciplinary study of the social circumstances of contemporary architecture. He also published “And justice for all...”, Maastricht (1994), a collection of essays about politics and visual culture. In 1995, Bouman was a member of and author for the scenario group Rotterdam 2045, in which capacity he published two future scenarios for that city.