She is one of the star architects of the Netherlands, and has been designing prestigious buildings all over the world for more than forty years, from New York to Taiwan. Francine Houben (70) gets angry about ugly buildings, but has nothing to do with ‘beauty contests’, she says in our weekend magazine Mezza. In the meantime, she is also working on solutions for disadvantaged areas. ‘Anger to me is a kind of energy.’
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Top architect Francine Houben: ‘Housing crisis is of course partly caused by politics itself’
Bytaketonews
Apr 12, 2026