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Study association Stylos is turning 130 years old. After all kinds of activities at the faculty, the time has come to share the joy with the city of Delft. So from 9 June onwards you can visit a pavilion built by students from sustainable and circular materials.

In 2023, 18,000 new-build owner-occupied houses will have been sold. This is half the number of sales in 2021. Housing production of owner-occupied houses remains a major concern, as production has been under considerable pressure for three years. Still, the new construction market seems to have reached its all-time low. In fact, during the year of 2023 a slight increase in the number of new houses sold was observed.

As Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, we are at the heart of society. Major societal issues place high demands on our future engineers for the built environment. To address these and guide educational innovations, a Vision on Education has been established. MaartenJan Hoekstra and Mieke Topsom explain what this vision entails and what it will mean for students and staff.

Greening post-war residential neighbourhoods produces the biggest urban climate and biodiversity gains. Professor Urban Design and urban planner Tess Broekmans: “Making a neighbourhood compact, increasing population density, can actually make it more liveable.”

On Thursday, 25 April 2024, Frits Seijffert, professor emeritus of Building Economics, passed away at the age of 89. As an impassioned engineer and master of calculus, he inspired many Architecture students in the 1990s. With numerous examples from his own practice, he taught the first generations of Master students in Management in the Built Environment (MBE) real estate finance.

With sorrow, we have learned of the sudden passing of former colleague and emeritus professor Jitske de Jong. We wish her husband, children, grandchildren, family, friends and other loved ones much strength in coping with this sudden loss.

Perhaps not everyone was aware, but according to the TU Delft campus multi-year plan we were supposed to leave this building in about 10 years' time. That decision has now been reversed. Our faculty Architecture and the Built Environment will - also in the long term - remain housed in this beautiful and inspiring building. The news was announced last week, along with a treat of BK Biscuits for everyone in the building.

'Meet the Professor' is an annual WIJStad initiative in which professors of TU Delft visit and teach a Delft primary school class. This year, assistant professors were also invited, resulting in no fewer than five researchers from our faculty participating: Prof Dick van Gameren, Prof Marlon Boeve, Prof Steffen Nijhuis, Dr Geertje Slingerland, and Dr Job Schroën. Thank you for joining in!

The announced event on 24 April organised by BK scholars for Palestine' and facilitated by the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, unfortunately cannot take place on TU Delft campus. Given the various signals that have reached me as dean in recent days, I and the facilitating team are not confident that we can ensure a constructive and respectful dialogue. Therefore, I have made a well-considered decision not to be able to facilitate this event.

What if students from Architecture, and Building Technology worked together with students from MBO to develop circular building products? How would a systematic exchange between them affect their learning? And would it lead to designing and making building products differently?