Mentors

Mentors for students starting their graduation September 2024/25 are:

Taeke Bouma

future resilience, reframing, urban extensions, redevelopment

Taeke Bouma, an Urban Designer and educator at TU Delft, specializes in reshaping existing structures for future resilience. His focus lies in practical reframing, moving beyond preservation. Holding a Master’s in Architecture from TU Delft, he actively contributes to both Bachelor and Master programs, emphasizing practical skills like observation and (re)design. Beyond academia, Bouma has extensive experience in various Dutch architecture firms, working on urban extensions, redevelopment, and city-level visions. Since 2010, he has been an independent designer, contributing to diverse architectural and urban projects.

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Exemplary graduation projects

Exploring the Endogenous Development Model of Rural Areas Based on Tourism Background. Yu, Qian (2020)

Ancient salination. Yan, Ran (2021)

Leo van den Burg

Cultural-historical dimension, narratives, experimentation,

Leo van den Burg serves as an Urban Design educator at TU Delft, where he explores the nuanced relationship between history and design, considering both cultural-historical dimensions and narrative aspects. Moving beyond conventional problem-solving, Leo advocates for an inclusive approach to design that embraces experimentation, poetic expression, and thoughtful discourse.

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Rients Dijkstra

urban development and infrastructure, public space

Rients Dijkstra, a Design Fellow in Urban Design at TU Delft and partner at PosadMaxwan, graduated with a degree in architecture and urban planning from TU Delft in 1989. Between 1991 and 1994, Rients worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). After founding the firm Maxwan in 1994, he worked on the design and implementation of projects including the Utrecht new-town Leidsche Rijn, Rotterdam Central Station, the Antwerp ring road, and Barking Riverside London, as well as on prizewinning designs for urban public space.

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Machiel van Dorst

environmental-psychology, well-being, health, liveability, pattern language

Machiel van Dorst, the head of the section of Urban Studies and professor in Environment, Behaviour and Design. He has a background in environmental-psychology and urbanism. Part of his research is in Rotterdam South where he runs a studio with the Veldacademie concerning well-being, co-design and urban design.

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Exemplary graduation projects

Inward: The silence is within, Anne van den Berg (2021).

 

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Claudiu Forgaci
Urban resilience, urban rivers, social-ecological integration, spatial data science, spatial morphology
Claudiu Forgaci is an Assistant Professor of Urban Design and Analytics at TU Delft, engaged in bringing together research, education, and the practice of designing for resilience and social-ecological integration in urban space.

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Exemplary graduation projects

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Marco Lub
Innovation, Durability, Ecology, Health, Beauty
Marco Lub, a theoretical academic architect and urban designer. He explores design and design processes with conceptual thinking and creativity as a basic attitude.

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Exemplary graduation projects

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Birgit Hausleitner
Urban diversity, porosity, space syntax, multi-scalarity, mixed-use
Birgit Hausleitner is an architect and urbanist, lecturer of Urban Design at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft. She studied architecture at TU Vienna and the Politecnico di Milano and urbanism with distinction at TU Delft and IUAV Venice. Her research comprises work on urban diversity and mixed-use cities.

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Exemplary graduation projects

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Maurice Harteveld

urban design, public space, intersubjective methods, diversity, cross-cultural exchange

Maurice is an assistant Professor of Urban Design, who is specialised in the theory of urban design and the architecture of the city with an interdisciplinary focus on public space and expertise in its related methods.

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Exemplary graduation projects

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Stefan van der Spek

Transit oriented design, VR & AR, evidence-based design, public space, urban life

Stefan van der Spek is an associate professor of Urban Design and director VR-lab at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. His main research objective is to improve the Urban Design process by applying new technologies, modeling and simulation, e.g. by using VR and AR as key design tools. He holds a degree in Architecture and Building Sciences at TU Delft (1991-1997). He obtained his PhD from TU Delft with a thesis entitled Seamless Multimodal Mobility / Intermodal Transfer Points.

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Exemplary graduation projects

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Gerdy Verschuure-Stuip

Landscape identity, urban landscapes, narratives, history, heritage, landscape biography, participation, public space

Gerdy Vershuure-Stuip is an Assistant Professor Landscape Architecture, specialized in Landscape-architecture, Heritage, Narratives approaches and Participation at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft. She is trained as an architect and she has been working for architectural firms next to policy advice for a municipality. At the TUDelft she has been teaching and researching for many years. She is involved in various research and education projects concerning Architecture, Landscape architecture and Urbanism and she tries to interwave academia and practice. She has written various articles on heritage, landscape, narratives and policy advice.

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Exemplary graduation projects

J.ten Hove (2023).Religious Heritage as Placemaker for Rural Cores https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid%3Aaa8451b4-3bc3-44c1-b671-d3f45cfa7e25?collection=education D.Groen (2023), Creating Safe Space: Enhancing neighborhood safety in Hillesluis, Rotterdam South through spatial design https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid%3Abd8a501d-5ab8-4b55-9b20-60810ba21045?collection=education A. Shadap (2019). The future of informal pathways: Reinforcing the identity of public space in hilltowns.
Tess Broekmans
Inner-city transformation, social issues, community-centric design, strategic development planning, building a narrative.

Tess Broekmans is a part-time Professor of Urban Design at the section of Urban Design at TU Delft. She is a specialist in the field of inner-city development and develops concepts for buildings and areas. She studied urban design at TU Delft and worked from 1996 to 2000 at the Spatial Planning Department of the Municipality of Amsterdam. She has been working at Urhahn since 2000, where she since 2007 has taken over the agency from the founder, Gert Urhahn. She now runs the office with Ad de Bont.

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Deepti Adlakha
built environment, natural environment, public health, healthy cities, active living
Deepti Adlakha is an Associate Professor and Delft Technology Fellow in the Department of Urbanism. She is a Fulbright Scholar and an interdisciplinary scientist with a diverse educational background, with degrees in architecture, urban design and public health.

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Exemplary graduation projects

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