Tracy Metz



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Tracy Metz, Director

Tracy Metz, a native of California and John Adams Director since 2013, is a journalist and author based in the Netherlands. She writes for the national newspaper NRC Handelsblad and is an international correspondent for the New York-based magazine Architectural Record. She was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the author of a number of books, including FUN! Leisure and Landscape, about the impact of our leisure activities on the way we use and perceive our surroundings. Her most recent book is Sweet&Salt: Water and the Dutch, on the extreme makeover of the Dutch landscape to accommodate a new relationship to water. Tracy is also the host and creator of the podcast, ‘Nattigheid: opbeurende verhalen over ons water’. You can learn more about Tracy by visiting her website.

Curious what the experience is like for Americans living in Amsterdam? Click on the video below to watch Tracy tell her story:

Former directors

2008-2013 Russell Shorto

2006-2007 Corine Krijgsman 

2001-2005 Monique Knapen

1991-2001 Anne Wertheim