julius_taminiau_architects

05/08/2026

Anish Kapoor 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

28/07/2026

23/07/2026

OG Minimalism

09/07/2026

Rhythm Barns - Julius Taminiau Architects

Can’t wait to share more about this project soon!

This project contributes, in a modest but meaningful way, to two major challenges in the Netherlands: reducing nitrogen emissions and creating much-needed housing. By replacing intensive agricultural use with low-impact, sustainable homes, we created a new future for this place while respecting its landscape and history. The homes are designed as a “family” rooted in their surroundings and oriented towards the old octagonal hay shed. Their forms reinterpret the language of local barns through generous openings, timber façades, and simple sculptural volumes. The proportions are based on our JTA Modulor, while the façade’s rhythmic timber cladding is inspired by the structured spontaneity of Sun Ra’s music.

ruralarchitecture

20/05/2026

Hope to see you tonight :)

14/05/2026

After seeing and hearing (with a few exceptions) many boring architecture talks, I thought it might be better for this architect to take a different approach..

As an architect, I’m constantly searching for universal beauty, something that transcends style, time, and geography. Perhaps music is the purest place to look for it.

So instead of a talk about architecture, this will be a journey through music: across continents, cultures, and history, searching for moments of universal beauty.

Wednesday, May 20, I’ll be a “selector” at Cue (listening bar) Amsterdam from 20:00-00:00.
You’re very welcome to join this journey. Hope to see you there!

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I started DJing in 1999 and continued until around 2010, playing at venues in and around Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Just when I was about to turn “professional” (or less amateuristic), I had to choose between music and architecture, and I chose architecture.

Years later, I accidentally rediscovered my vinyl collection, hidden beneath a wooden floor. Holding those records again brought me back to a different time - before digital DJing took over..

Looking back, that transition may have been one of the reasons I stopped DJing. But growing older also made me appreciate something else: the beauty of a carefully built record collection. Something slow, physical, personal, and historical - the opposite of today’s endless, effortless consumption of music.

“Owning” every record. Touching it. Adjusting it with your hands. Almost like playing an instrument, or painting with a brush..

So, vinyl only..

Music has always influenced my work as an architect. In many ways, music and architecture are very similar and I use music as an inspiration in all my projects.

Music, in the broadest sense, is organized sound.
Architecture, in that same sense, is organized light.
Music has proportion, composition, and structure, like architecture. And architecture needs rhythm, melody, and soul, like music.

In my mind, architecture is simply music experienced through another sense.

29/03/2026

This prototype chair begins with a resistance.

A resistance to the distance between design and everyday life. To things becoming polished, controlled, and slightly detached. As if beauty is mainly something to consume. As if it belongs to a few, something exclusive.

I like the idea that a “design” chair could exist at the price of an IKEA chair. That design can be more open and within reach. I believe beauty has a meaningful, inspiring effect. After safety, food, and shelter, it feels close to essential, if it is kept essential.

The starting point is a single sheet of plywood. At the same time it is a limitation. The chair is not fully designed beforehand. It develops through cutting and assembling. Step by step, trying to keep only what seems necessary. Each step is a reduction. At a certain point the relation to the body becomes less clear. It almost fades. For me that is where it starts to become interesting. Less obvious, more open.

What remains is something basic, feels essential, an archetype.

26/03/2026

Big thanks to for these beauts. Adding the final layers to Blackbird and shaping an oasis around it 🍃

20/03/2026

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Thank you so much, .khudo and .amsterdam , for inviting me into your beautiful space and catching up again.

Every visit is inspiring. Your space feels less like a shop and more like a museum, though even that doesn’t quite capture it. “Furniture” almost feels like the wrong word; the pieces exist somewhere between design and art.

It reminds me of what furniture can and perhaps should be: something you choose for life. Objects that are thoughtfully made, that age beautifully, that don’t fade or bore, but grow with you over time. Timeless pieces, created with respect for nature and craftsmanship. Made with care, with intention, with love. Everything carries a certain presence. You can feel it.
japan 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

19/03/2026

A Celebration of Aging

In Princelet Street and Wilkes Street, time doesn’t move in a straight line. Instead, it floats.

The houses are not preserved as polished objects, but treated as living organisms. Paint peels, timber shifts, window frames carry marks of rain, sun, and touch. What would be considered imperfection (to some) is carefully held onto here, not out of nostalgia, but out of respect and care, and it is beautiful…

What makes these streets special is their balance. Interventions have been made, but never excessively. Repairs are visible, replacements are rare. Each decision seems to hover around an invisible threshold: how far can one go without erasing the past? Exactly at that tipping point, between decay and preservation, the houses find their character.

The colors deepen this atmosphere. Like an old painting, there are no sharp, fresh tones, but carefully chosen muted hues that feel as if they have been shaped by time itself.

Age is not a problem to be solved, but a quality to be embraced. Imperfection not a flaw, but evidence of life. It is an architecture that does not try to stand still, but instead reveals that it is constantly, quietly in motion, and respects its cultural history.

In a world that often strives for the new and the flawless, these streets offer a quiet resistance. They remind us that beauty is not found in erasing time, but in allowing it, carefully, respectfully, to remain.

A celebration of aging.