Jan Kroes joined Fereday Pollard in 2002 and was made a Director of the company in 2007. Jan leads the practices work in the transportation and infrastructure sectors, and has recently been a guest speaker at the RIBA's 'Designing For Three Communities' organised as part of the London Festival of Architecture. He was also invited to the Transport Museum's Friday Late: Urban Fabric event 'Designing stations for local communities'.
Jan holds a Masters Degree in Architecture from The Berlage Institute in the Netherlands and studied under Elia Zenghelis, Herman Hertberger and Wiel Aret. He built a full size prototype dwelling in Amsterdam with moving walls for flexible short term live work living in the ground of the former orphanage designed by Aldo van Eyck.
He subsequently collaborated on the publication 'Aan de Dijk Gezet' with M3H Architectuur & Wingender Hovenier Architects which investigated innovative ways of restructuring and building on the Dutch river dykes winning him the commission to develop new dyke housing with a Rotterdam based consultancy.
Jan has also designed and built furniture for clients in Amsterdam, Geneva and Treviso, and collaborated with Architects such as K2, 12PM, VMX and Big House. In 1997 he was invited to look at the regeneration of Heerlen in South Holland and won a government award for his studio work.
He has also supported the Berlage graduates and taught at Delft University and Architectural Academies in Tilburg, Arnhem and Amsterdam.
With Fereday Pollard Architects, Jan's work has won residential awards and he oversees the design development of numerous transportation and infrastructure projects across the country including the Thames Tideway project, Crossrail infrastructure, the East London Line OBC, London Overground at Old Oak Common, Cooling the Tube, rail infrastructure at Stratford Station for the Olympics and most recently the iconic Abbey Wood station on the South East Section of Crossrail.