
Today’s Role of the Urban Designer – Metropolitan Club TU Delft
Following a letter I was co-authoring that raised concerns about the state of affairs in urbanism at TU Delft when
In August 2023, I gave a lecture at Cityscape Global Conference and Fair in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the short presentation, I highlighted the need to look beyond architecture to arrive at human centered architecture. Human existence is more than living in a building. The space in between is crucial and often overlooked. A collection of architectural projects does not make a city yet. The in between space is key – and too often overlooked or not designed with an eye on its usability in the climate in question.
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Following a letter I was co-authoring that raised concerns about the state of affairs in urbanism at TU Delft when
I was one of the track leaders of the 55th ISOCARP world planning congress in Jakarta 2019. In that role
The Bijlmer was one of the great experiments of the 1970’s in the Netherlands. In the South-Eastern outskirts of Amsterdam