Konrad
Ottenheym is professor of
architectural history at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and member of the Royal Dutch
Academy of Sciences. He
is a specialist on Dutch seventeenth century architecture, its sources in the
Italian renaissance and its influence in Europe. He is author of various monographs on Dutch
architects of the Golden Age, Philips Vingboons, Pieter Post and Jacob van
Campen, as well as on the influence of Italian architectural treatises in
seventeenth-century Dutch architecture. He has cooperated in the recent English
editions (Architectura et Natura Publishers, 2004 and 2007) of Vincenzo
Scamozzi’s treatise L’Idea della
architettura universale, the main handbook on classical design theories in
seventeenth-century Holland.
He is coauthor with Krista De Jonge (Belgium)
of Unity and Discontinuity, Architectural
Relationships between the Southern and Northern Low
Countries 1530-1700 (Brepols Publishers, 2007). Currently he
is working on The Low Countries at the
Cross Roads, a book on the contributions of Netherlandish architects to the
architecture elsewhere in Europe in the
sixteenth and seventeenth century.
Konrad
Ottenheym contributed to various architectural exhibitions, in 1997 in Hamburg
(Germany), in 1999 and 2004 in Vicenza
(Italy) and in 2000 in Washington DC,
and in 1995, 2002 and 2010
in the Royal Palace of Amsterdam.
Current Functions
2006 - Director of the Dutch post-graduate school
for art history (Onderzoekschool Kunstgeschiedenis)
2007-2011
Advisor of the state Building Agency at the restoration of the Royal Palace
in Amsterdam
2010- Member of the steering committee of the ‘Palatium’- project (a Research Networking Programme
of the European science Foundation).
Academic stay abroad
2009, Spring: visiting professor
Rutgers University (NJ), USA
2004, Febr.-June: Fellow/ visiting
professor at the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura ‘Andrea
Palladio’, Vicenza
(I)
Research projects funded by the Netherlands
Organisation for Scientific research (NWO):
1996-2000: Unity and Discontinuity. Architectural
relationships between the Southern and Northern Low
Countries 1530-1700, in cooperation with prof.dr. Krista De Jonge (KU
Leuven)
2002-2006: Passion and Control, a project on eighteenth-century urban building
administration in the Low Countries, in
cooperation with prof.dr. A. van der Woud (VU/ RU Groningen) and dr. F.H.
Schmidt (VU).
2005-2008:
‘Public Buildings in Early Modern Europe’,
in cooperation with the Centre Chastel of the Sorbonne (Paris-IV) : a series of
three international conferences (Paris 2005, Utrecht 2006 and 2008).
2006- 2010:
The Low Countries
at the cross roads. Netherlandish architecture as an export product in early
modern Europe (1480-1680), in cooperation with prof dr. Krista De Jonge, KU
Leuven.
Key publications
K.A. Ottenheym,
Schoonheid op Maat. Vincent Scamozzi en
de architectuur van de Gouden Eeuw, Amsterdam 2010.
K.A.
Ottenheym, K. De Jonge, M. Chatenet (eds.), Public Buildings
in Early Modern Europe, Turnhout 2010.
K.A.
Ottenheym, ‘Vincenzo Scamozzi’s Classical Orders, an Introduction to Book VI of
L’Idea della Architettura Universale’,
in: P. Garvin, K.A. Ottenheym, W. Vroom, Vincenzo
Scamozzi, Venetian Architect. The Idea of a Universal Architecture VI. The
Architectural Orders and their Application, Amsterdam 2008, (361 pags.) pp.
9-43.
K. De
Jonge, K.A. Ottenheym, Unity and
Discontinuity. Architectural Realationships between the Southern and Northern Low Countries (1530-1700), Turnhout 2007 (425 pages).
K. Bosma.
A. Mekking, K. Ottenheym, A. van der Woud (red.), Bouwen in Nederland 600-2000, Zwolle/Amsterdam 2007;
K.A.
Ottenheym, `Fürsten, Architekten und Lehrbücher. Wege der holländischen
Baukunst nach Brandenburg
im 17. Jahrhundert.' in: H. Lademacher (red.), Onder den Oranje boom. Dynastie in der Republik. Das Haus
Oranien-Nassau als Vermittler niederländischer Kultur in deutschen Territorien
im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert, München 1999, pp.287-198, 460-462.
J. Huisken,
K.A. Ottenheym, G. Schwartz (red.), Jacob
van Campen. Het klassieke ideaal in de Gouden Eeuw, Amsterdam 1995;