A cultural and architectural historian, Ole Bouman has worked as a curator and consultant in the fields of architecture, visual culture and politics. More recently he has been director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) since April 2007. Before taking up that position he was editor-in-chief of the periodical Volume, a cooperative venture of Stichting Archis, AMO (the research bureau of OMA/Rem Koolhaas) and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University.
Bouman has also been lecturing Design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.Bouman has curated exhibitions for the Milan Triennale, Manifesta 3 and Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum. He also has curated a series of public events for the reconstruction of the public domain in cities that have been hit by disasters, such as Ramallah, Mexico City, Beirut and Prishtina. His articles have appeared in periodicals such as De Groene Amsterdammer, The Independent, Artforum, De Gids, Domus, Harvard Design Review, El Croquis, Arquitectura & Viva, and Proiekt Russia. Bouman regularly lectures at internationally acclaimed universities and cultural institutions.
Projects: Books – And Justice for All; a collection of essays on politics and visual culture (1994)The Invisible in Architecture; along with Roemer Toorn (1994) RealSpace in QuickTimes; a collection of an exhibition and essays (1996) De Strijd om Tijd (2003) Al Manakh; along with Mark Wigley and Rem Koolhaas (2007)
