Barbara Kuit

Barbara Kuit is an architect. In 1998, together with her partner Mark Hemel, Kuit founded Information Based Architecture (IBA).[1]

IBA has won some of the most prestigious international competitions among which the competition for the world’s tallest TV tower, the Canton Tower, formerly known as the Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower in Guangzhou, China (completed in 2010).

Biography

Kuit was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Before founding IBA, she worked for several years at the office of Zaha Hadid Architects. There she worked on various high profile projects including the MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome, Millennium Dome in London and Science Center in Wolfsburg. Before that she worked at Harper Mackay in London, as a local architect on various projects of Philippe Starck, St Martin’s Lane Hotel and Sanderson Hotel in London.

Career

Teaching

Recognition

Projects

Publications and Reference material

IBA's work has been published and exhibited widely. In 2002 they were short listed for the Young Architects of the Year Award in the United Kingdom. They have received support by the Dutch Department of Trade and Industry and received several encouragement-grants by the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.

Currently Kuit is working on a book titled Supermodel, the making of the world's tallest TV tower, which will come out in the early months of 2011.

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