We kick off in 2016 with Marieke Berkers (architectural historian) and Gerjan Streng (architect/ partner The Cloud Collective). The setting is the same as the last Souper last year: restaurant Huson.

Marieke is a researcher, she writers articles, makes books, is a frequent juror, teaches at various educational institutions and is editor of the Blue Room. Landscaping is her specialty. Gerjan works with The Cloud Collective on architectural assignments and investigating with big data contemporary spatial issues. The Cloud Collective has been organized as an union, this makes working on various assignments in difference countries simple. The width range of assignments of this young agency, or better young organization is therefore impressive.

An interesting similarity between Marieke and Gerjan is that they managed to combine perfectly both content and entrepreneurship. They can also both talk about in a very pleasant way too.

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.