Monadnock

Image: Monadnock, credit Stijn Bollaert

Monadnock is a Rotterdam-based practice producing architecture. Monadnock designs, researches, writes and produces discourse in the fields of architecture, urbanism, interior and staging, shifting in scale between the space of the city and the street to the scale of the interior. Monadnock creates contemporary buildings that embed architecture in the cultural production of their generation as a whole. By examining key themes such as the contemporary and tradition, convention and banality, constructive logic and illusionary representation, Monadnock aims for an architecture that combines beauty, efficiency and the transfer of architectural knowledge.

Monadnock was founded in 2006 by Job Floris and Sandor Naus. Both trained as interior– and furniture designers during their studies at the Academy of Fine Arts St. Joost in Breda (NL) and subsequently graduated from the Academy for Architecture and Urbanism in Rotterdam and Tilburg.

Monadnock received international attention and awards for realizing tailor-made buildings, many of which are public. These include a beach pavilion on the River Maas, a huge installation called ‘Make No Little Plans’, and a Landmark – or viewing tower – for the municipality of Nieuw Bergen (NL). The Park Pavilion, a visitors centre for the largest Dutch National Park and the Atlas House a compact towerhouse. Currently, Monadnock is involved in projects on several scales, of which a substantial amount is housing.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.