Serge Schoemaker (born 1975 in Amsterdam) studied architecture at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2001, his graduation project was awarded the Archiprix International.
He worked for the Zurich based office Harder & Spreyermann Architekten on several price winning competition entries from 2000 to 2002. Between 2002 and 2007, Schoemaker worked at the practice of renowned Swiss architect and Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor, where he was project architect of the highly acclaimed Kolumba Art Museum in Cologne. The museum delicately rises from the ruins of a late-Gothic church, respecting the site’s history and preserving its essence.
After completion of the museum, he established Serge Schoemaker Architects in Amsterdam in 2008. Besides running his own practice, Schoemaker is a visiting lecturer at different architecture schools in the Netherlands. His work has been frequently published in online and print journals. In 2020, Schoemaker gained international recognition with the transformation of the UNESCO-site Fort Hoofddorp, part of the historic Defence Line of Amsterdam.
Schoemaker won the 2021 NRP Golden Phoenix Award and the 2021 Pieter van Vollenhoven Prize, two prestigious awards for the most excellent examples of transformation projects in the Netherlands.. In the same year, he received an Honourable Mention in the BNA Best Building of the Year competition. Furthermore, he was nominated for the 2020 ARC Architecture Award and for the Architectenweb Awards in the category Interior of the Year in both 2020 and 2018.