Ole Bouman

Director of Design Society

Ole Bouman, former Creative Director of the Urbanism/Architecture Bi- City Biennale Shenzhen (2013-14), was appointed Director of Design Soci- ety in January 2015. Since mid 1990s Ole Bouman has shown outstanding achievements in writing, curating and teaching. He was the editor-in-chief of Volume, a magazine he co-founded with Rem Koolhaas and Mark Wigley. His publications include The Invisible in Architecture (co-author, 1994) and Architecture of Consequence (2009). Between 2006 and 2013, Ole Bouman was the director of Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi). He was involved in and curated Manifesta 3 (2000), the architecture Biennales of Shenzhen, São Paulo and Venice. Ole Bouman taught archi- tecture and design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Hong Kong.