Bart Lootsma (born in Amsterdam in 1957) graduated in architecture from Eindhoven University, where, in 1984, he obtained a master's degree in the History and Theory of Architecture.
Since then he has pursued an international career as a historian, critic, exhibition curator, and teacher in the overlapping fields of architecture, contemporary art and design.
In 1990, with the historian Mariette van Stralen, he founded V.O.F. Boiling Phenomena.
Bart Lootsma has been involved in the writing of many publications including Adriaan Geuze/West 8 Landscape Architects with Inge Breugem in 1995; Wiel Arets, a virological architecture, in collaboration with Jos Bosman in 1995; Media and Architecture in collaboration with Dick Rijken in 1998; The Yearbook of Architecture in the Netherlands in 1999 and 2000.
He is also the author of an acclaimed book, SuperDutch in 2000, which presents a critical overview of architecture in the Netherlands today. He also published a monograph on B&K in 2003 and Body + Globe, Collected Essays 1995-2001 in 2004.
As a member of the Archilab scientific committee in 2000 and 2001, Bart Lootsma is widely recognized for his expertise, know-how and very state-of-the-art knowledge of present-day architecture.