Crimson designs for the city, researches it, writes texts and books about it, shows it in exhibitions and works of art, teaches about it, gives advice on it and makes policies for it.
Villa The Heerlijkheid, which is part of WiMBY!, was selected for the shortlist of the 2008 World Architecture Festival in Barcelona, Spain, out of a longlist of 722 entries from 63 countries worldwide.
In 2014, Crimson, FAT Architecture and Owen Hatherley were selected to curate the British Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale.
The team responded to Rem Koolhaas’ theme “Absorbing Modernity: 1914–2014” with a project titled “A Clockwork Jerusalem.”[1] Crimson Historians & Urbanists is Ewout Dorman, Mike Emmerik, Annuska Pronkhorst, Michelle Provoost, Simone Rots, Wouter Vanstiphout and Cassandra Wilkins.
Members of Crimson have lectured at the TU Delft, at Groningen University, at the Danish Architecture Centre, at Technische Universität Berlin, among other places.