Architecture is making it possible for others to perceive what the architect conceived in its purest and most direct state’. (Felix Claus)

‘Architecture can only move forward by accepting its social context. Architects can only exercise influence if they accept the realities of the context on which they depend in order to construct’. (Kees Kaan)

Two statements from the principals of Claus en Kaan Architects. With offices in Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

Architectural photographer Kim Zwarts works on a regular base for the architects. In May 2001 he was asked by Claus en Kaan to create a limited edition booklet, being the new years gift for their business relations.

Kim proposed the idea of transforming the idea of a booklet into a online electronic document. And to do so in a close collaborationship with Boy Bastiaens and Albert Kiefer from StormHand.

The first Claus en Kaan website became known as an outstanding personal portrait of the architecs within a super lo-tec navigation environment.

Stressed on architecture in its context, mapped and documented from a conceptual point of departure. Where materials, sketches, screenshots, notes, publications and work situations, had been assigned an equal amount of attention as the initial building projects.