Job Floris
short CV
Job Floris is architect and co-founder of Monadnock. He obtained his master’s degree in architecture from the Rotterdam Academy for Architecture and Urbanism in 2004, following on from his study of architectural design at the Academy for Visual Arts and Design Sint Joost in Breda. Currently, the practice of Monadnock has a substantial amount of housing projects in The Netherlands and Germany. Containing a wide variety of scales and of types of inhabitants. He has held various visiting lectureships in the Netherlands and abroad since 2006. From 2010 till 2018 Job was appointed as head of the Master’s degree course Architecture at the Rotterdam Academy for Architecture and Urbanism. Subsequently he was invited as guest professor in various universities throughout Europe, such as TU Karlsruhe KIT, KU Leuven/Ghent, TU Graz and TU Dresden. From 2018 till 2020 Floris was invited professor at the EPFL-ENAC in the chair of Housing. In 2020 he was teaching a fall studio at Harvard GSD.
Abstract
Unfinished Sympathy. In a world developing more and more towards transparency, quantification and photorealism, the act of being suggestive and incomplete becomes rather a challenge. Yet architecture, among other disciplines related to the arts, requires a suggestive narrative in order to survive.
Particles. The Landmark offers a public, scenic view. The architecture addresses the civic in several ways. By the usage of a vocabulary which is partially recognizable, using a classical toolbox. By applying a material which is contextual. Along the river Meuse, a building culture based on backed clay is very common. For us, combining these points by the usage of a technique of assemblage, it simultaneously aimed for being nonconventional and of the now.
Lines. For the southern entrance of the old city Grave, we were commissioned to design a new gate building. On a triangular plot, visible from all sides, close to the old fortification walls. This building marks the entrance of the historic city, and therefore wants to relate to the existing historic buildings. Which might best define the building as an oxymoron, as it has to unify two demands in one: blending in as well as standing out.