Claus en Kaan Architecten, Ideal Standard buildings 1988 - 2009

Claus was born in 1956 in Arnheim and Kaan was born in Breda, in 1961. They both graduated from Delft University of Technology in 1987. They formed the firm of Claus en Kaan Architecten in 1987. Claus en Kaan designed the master plan of the IJburg district of Amsterdam and later moved their offices to a building they designed in the district. Kees Kaan and Felix Claus once stated that their ambition was to extinguish the schism between low practice and high theory, between architecture that serves its immediate objective and architecture that speaks over the heads of its users to colleagues and critics. On January 15th of 2014 the company released a statement announcing the ending of the partnership between Claus and Kaan, effective January 1st, 2014.