The guests for the first Souper in 2014 were Urban designer Peter van der Helm and architect Jeroen Hoorn. Both gentlemen have extensive knowledge about Rotterdam. Peter on the urban tissue and the program of the city. Jeroen designed for privat clients and small developers many small projects in the city. Discussion was this evening on how to transform Rotterdam carefully into a beautiful lived city by handling the tissue with its existing buildings with love. Peter and Jeroen tells us how buildings, streets, neighbourhoods can be upgraded with a minimum breaking force

Souper #1 Monday, January 27th was exactly five years ago. The guest list is growing steadily and we have the idea that we are far from finished eating. We will have no more food in restaurant in the renovated Town Hall Hilton Hotel. The food was nothing special and the service was really bad

Daan Bakker (Daf-architecten), Jeroen de Willigen (DeZwarteHond), Jasper de Haan (architect) and I invite each month a number of colleagues to eat, drink and discuss about our profession, the city of Rotterdam and related matters.