who is Mevrouw Meijer?
The Mevrouw Meijer Foundation is an idealistic research agency that strives to improve school architecture.
Mevrouw Meijer (Dutch for Mrs. Meijer) believes that school buildings are important because that’s where children spend a large and formative part of their lives. A school is more than just a utility building. The quality of a school is of great social significance, and good architecture is part of this. The design of schools deserves love, concentration, drive and expertise. A school should not be a disposable building.
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Mevrouw Meijer takes her name from the children's book 'Mrs. Meyer, the Bird’ written and illustrated by Wolf Erlbruch.
This Mrs. Meyer always worries about nothing. Until one day she finds a young blackbird in the vegetable garden. Her endless worries are gone; she now really has something to care for. She feeds the bird, teaches it to fly, and then spreads her own wings.
This parable teaches us how you can get wings by focusing on the essentials. Mevrouw Meijer invites everyone to rise above the daily worries about educational housing and fly towards a good and beautiful school.
contact
Mevrouw Meijer consists of architect Tjeerd Wessel and art historian Wilma Kempinga
Stichting Mevrouw Meijer
Andreas Bonnstraat 25 III
NL-1091 AW Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Wilma Kempinga
00 316 19 210 520
wk@mevrouwmeijer.nu
Tjeerd Wessel
00 316 23 022 878
tw@mevrouwmeijer.nu
Calculation
Construction Cost Consultancy
www.winket.nl, Tim de Jonge
BuroP, Pim Foppele
Board
Henk Vermeulen
Principal of MBO Nimeto, Utrecht
Floris Alkemade
architect, former Government Architect
Barbara Luns
director of the Rotterdam Institute of Architecture (AIR)
Colophon
Text Fred Feddes
Design Annelies Frölke
Construction Imade
clients
Our clients are either municipalities (‘gemeente’) or school boards. They include:
Katholieke Onderwijs Centrale, Groningen
Gemeente Almere
Stadsdeel Amsterdam-Oost
Gemeente Groningen
Gemeente Utrecht, Dienst Maatschappelijke Ontwikkeling
Gemeente Eindhoven
Gemeente Emmen
Gemeente Lingewaard
Gemeente Haarlem, Jeugd, Onderwijs en Sport
Stichting Onderwijshuisvesting, Hoorn (SOHH)
Vereniging Ons Middelbaar Onderwijs, Tilburg
Gemeente Delft en Sichting Openbaar Onderwijs Delft
Christelijk Lyceum Veenendaal
Gemeente Amsterdam, Onderwijs, Jeugd en Zorg
Gemeente Dordrecht en
Openbaar Primair Onderwijs Dordrecht
Gemeente Hoorn
Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam
architects
Mevrouw Meijer has worked with the following architectural firms to date:
Alvarez Ouburg Architects
AM_A Andrea Möhn Architects
ANA
Architectenbureau-K2
Architectuur Maken
Ard de Vries &
Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke
Atelier van Berlo
AtelierFront
Beuving Martensen Architecten
Bovenbouw Architectuur
Bureau LADA
Bureau SLA
Buro Lubbers
Civic Architects
DaF-architecten
Guis Architectenwerk
Hans Van Eeden Architect
Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven
HelderenHelder
Jeroen Architectuur Studio (JAS)
K.A.S.
Karakter
KettingHuls
Korth Tielens Architecten
KRFT
Ladida
laura alvarez architecture
Loos Architects
Maarten van Kesteren Architecten
Marco Henssen Architecten
MeesVisser
Monadnock
NB Architecten
Nexit
Olaf Gipser Architects
pvanb architecten
RHAW architecture
Ronald Janssen
Serge Schoemaker Architects
Shift
Space&Matter &
Barend Koolhaas
Space-encounters
Studenten Urban Lab,
TU Eindhoven
Studio Anne Dessing
Studio Huijgens
Studio JVM
Studio Maks
Studio Nauta
Studio Prototype
Studio RTM
Studio Selva
Studio Steenbruggen
SubOffice
Superuse Studios
Team Oud Beekvliet,
Van Boven Architecten &
Winy Maas (MVRDV)
Theo Rooijakkers
Titus Lammertse &
Jan Paulus Hoogterp
Unknown Architects
Vanschagen Architecten
VASD
Werkstatt
Zecc Architecten
Zeinstra van Gelderen
ZOFA Architecten