MVRDV

(Amersfoort, April 14th 2009) Today Bert Meerstadt, the President Director of the NS, Netherlands Railways, and Bert Klerk, the CEO of Prorail, present ‘The Collection’. ‘The Collection’ is a publication in which a selection is made from all Dutch train stations. The stations included in ‘The Collection’ are of cultural and historical value and will be specially preserved for the future. In the book these station buildings are methodically catalogued, like an art collection, specifying their specialties and their historic or monumental characteristics. ‘The Collection’ is an effort conducted by Buro Spoorbouwmeester under the guidance of Nathalie de Vries (of MVRDV) as the Spoorbouwmeester (the official Dutch Railway Advisor on Architecture).

Nathalie de Vries was Spoorbouwmeester, the official Dutch Railway Advisor on Architecture, from 2005 to 2008. This is a supervisory function at the Dutch Railways dealing with the architectural side of the infrastructural operation. A Spoorbouwmeester works part time and is appointed for the duration of three years. In January of 2009 the architect Koen van Velsen was appointed as the new Spoorbouwmeester. Since then Nathalie de Vries is back full time at MVRDV of which she is one of the principal architects and founders.

'The Collection' is published by NAi Publishers and available at www.naipublishers.nl