About Us

architour was founded in 2004

Since then, our team has guided groups with 2 to 240 participants from all over the world – from architecture firms to municipalities and from housing corporations to architectural associations. The tours are guided by a team of experienced architects, who have various specializations within the field of architecture.

is a renowned architecture journalist and writer. Anneke was born in Frankfurt/Germany and has been living in Amsterdam since 2000. She holds an M.A. in History of Art and Architecture from FU Berlin and writes about architecture and design in the Netherlands.

In 2004 Anneke decided to share her knowledge about Dutch building culture with visitor groups from abroad. She founded architour and joined the Guiding Architects Network.

Anneke develops programmes, organizes tours and guides groups in English, German and Dutch, while still publishing articles and contributing to books on Dutch architecture.

Her articles have appeared in a.o. Domus Germany, DETAIL, Mark Magazine, Frame Magazine Azure Magazine, Mare, Bauwelt and HÄUSER. She also acts as jury member for various Dutch and international architecture awards, writes book contributions and does film interviews.

As an architecture journalist, Anneke has excellent connections in the Dutch architecture scene and is always up to date about new projects. She can tell lots of stories about buildings and knows the important players in the field.

She’s also the author of the Marco Polo travel guidebook to Amsterdam and published an Architectural Guide to Rotterdam (DOM Publishers) in 2021.

Anneke speaks fluent German, English and Dutch, reasonable French and has a grasp of Spanish and Portuguese.

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is an experienced architect and lecturer. He was born in Utrecht (The Netherlands) and graduated from TU Delft with an honourable degree in architecture in 1995. In the following years Paul worked as an architect for various Dutch architecture firms.

Paul was involved in projects in city extensions and urban renewal areas, and his focus has always been on housing as well as urban planning.

Paul develops and organizes programmes and guides tours in English, Dutch and German. He also teaches at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam.

Paul’s experiences as an exchange student at ETH Zürich and in Lausanne turned him into an internationally orientated architect. His English and German are fluent, and he also has a good understanding of Italian.

Both teaching and his experience as an architect provide an excellent background for his work with architour.

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Gebhard Friedl

Gebhard was born in Vienna, Austria, where he studied architecture at TU Vienna and worked as a freelance architect. After moving to the Netherlands in 1998, he took a postgraduate degree in design process management from TU Eindhoven and worked as an independent management consultant. He lives in Amsterdam and runs his own consulting company.

Allard van der Hoek

Allard was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, to Dutch parents. He studied architecture at TU Berlin and worked as an architect in Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam from 1989 until 2004. Since 2004 he is a freelance architecture photographer, living in Amsterdam and Berlin.

André Günther

André was born in Detmold, Germany and studied architecture at the Technical University of Aachen (RWTH). He worked as an architect in Amsterdam and Berlin. Since 2010 he runs his own office andARCHITECTURE in Amsterdam.

Jelte van Koperen

Jelte was born in the Netherlands and grew up in France. He took the long road with his studies: starting with carpenter trade school, studying his way up to Msc of arts in History of Architecture. Jelte is a freelance tour guide in historic cities and more recent projects, and gives lectures about architecture.

Jeroen de Vries

Jeroen was born and raised in Amsterdam. He studied architecture at TU Delft and graduated in 2003, and has been working as an architect ever since. From 2009 he’s been working as architecture guide, alongside running his own architecture office.

Jack Hoogeboom

Jack is a Dutch architect and urban planner. He studied and lived in Utrecht, Maastricht, Aachen and Amsterdam, and is based in Rotterdam since 2006. He works as a lecturer in the Urban Planning department at the University of Applied Science in Rotterdam and owns an online art gallery with art that relates to cities and architecture.

Germaine Sanders

Germaine is a Dutch architect and urbanist. After her studies, she worked with various architecture and urbanism firms in Tokyo, London and the Netherlands. She has also worked as area developer in project development and in the building industry. Germaine currently is an interdisciplinary artist and teaches at TU Delft. She has been guiding tours for architour in English and German since 2022.

Sylke Gloystein

Sylke Gloystein is an architect and translator of German origin. She studied architecture at Leibniz University Hannover. In 2001 she moved to Rotterdam, where she worked for various Dutch architecture firms, before becoming a translator in 2015. She has been guiding architecture tours for architour since 2018.

René Bouman

René Bouman studied architecture at the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam. He worked for various renowned architecture firms in Rotterdam and ran his own office Möhn + Bouman from 1997 until 2018. Currently he teaches, acts as jury member, freelances as an architect and occasionally guides groups.

Annelies Bloemendaal

Annelies is a Dutch landscape architect. She studied Landscape Architecture at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam and at École Nationale Supérieure de Paysage in Versailles. She also holds a Master of Fine Art from the Academy of Art in Utrecht. Annelies has worked for various landscape architecture firms in the Netherlands, in France and for the municipality of Amsterdam.

Yukiko Nezu

Yukiko was born in Tokyo, Japan. She gained master degrees in architecture at Tokyo City University and at the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam. She has been living in Amsterdam since 1997 and has worked for various renowned architecture firms in the Netherlands. In 2002 she founded her own office Urbanberry Design.

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Heidi Zgraggen, Vivat Kultur, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

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