Archive
20 June 2023
Climate change as a game – Comenius Grant for Laura Cipriani
![Climate change as a game – Comenius Grant for Laura Cipriani](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/a/2/csm_comenius%20grant%20-%20laura_f329b6dd5e.jpg)
With her proposal Climate change as a game. (Co)designing with children the landscape of the future, Laura Cipriani has won the prestigious Comenius Teaching Fellowship Grant 2023. With this grant she can put her vision on educational innovation into practice.
19 June 2023
Obituary notice professor Tillmann Klein
![Obituary notice professor Tillmann Klein](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/c/f/csm_Tillmann_Klein_31dd9b9f3c.jpg)
Last Saturday the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment received the sad news that our valued and warm hearted colleague professor Tillmann Klein passed away after a long battle with cancer on 17 June 2023 in Rotterdam. Our hearts and thoughts go out to Tillmann’s wife Usch, son Jakob, family, friends, his colleagues and students. We wish them strength in this difficult time of unimaginable loss.
15 June 2023
Finding Blind Spots in the Historiography of Architecture and Urban Design
![Finding Blind Spots in the Historiography of Architecture and Urban Design](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/d/1/csm_230615_Gosseye_%C2%A9%20Centre_for_Buckinghamshire_Studies_Aylesbury_545df66fcb.jpg)
Shedding light on underexposed aspects of architecture and urban design in the twentieth century. That is what is envisioned by Janina Gosseye, Professor of Building Ideologies as of March 2023. She considers means such as graphic novels and oral sources to be very well suited to this. “How do political, social and economic developments influence our built environment? What does this mean for residents, commissioning parties, architects and contractors?”
15 June 2023
TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Pension Fund PME and Achmea Real Estate start Biobased Design Team
![TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Pension Fund PME and Achmea Real Estate start Biobased Design Team](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/9/3/csm_20230615_Biobased_Design_Team_thumbnail_0e5a0f171d.jpg)
On 14 June, Dick van Gameren, dean of TU Delft's Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (A+BE), Eric Uijen of Pension Fund PME and Mascha Hendrickx of Achmea Real Estate signed a cooperation agreement at the Provada real estate fair. Thanks in part to the support of PME and Achmea Real Estate, a team of scientists, including a prospective professor, at TU Delft's A+BE Faculty will be able to start honing their knowledge and expertise of designing buildings made from wood and other biobased materials.
22 May 2023
The Landscape as a Starting Point for Sustainable Urbanisation
![2JCE699 The Landscape as a Starting Point for Sustainable Urbanisation](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/5/c/csm_20230523_Artikel_Steffen_Nijhuis_Rotterdam_ffa8f16928.jpg)
Sustainable urbanisation, climate adaptation and biodiversity require a design approach that takes the landscape as its starting point. In short, that is what new professor Steffen Nijhuis focuses on within his teaching and research on Landscape-based Urbanism. “The landscape offers structure, ecological coherence and variety, but is also flexible and multifunctional.” Steffen further explains his research and ambition in an interview.
15 May 2023
BK alumna receives runner up prize at Marina van Damme award ceremony
![BK alumna receives runner up prize at Marina van Damme award ceremony](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/a/0/csm_230515_MarinavanDamme_6f6e235421.jpg)
On Thursday 11 May, Delft University Fund organised the 2023 Marina van Damme Grant Award Ceremony. Three female Delft alumni stood the chance to win the coveted grant of €9,000. BK Alumna Ludovica Cassina did not win but she did not go home empty-handed either. Her presentation was so appreciated that she received a double runner-up prize worth €5,000, of which one is provided by alumnus Allerd Stikker via the Fortuna Fund and one by Delft University Fund.
09 May 2023
Exhibition BK Africa: A Laboratory of the Future? on show in Venice
![Exhibition BK Africa: A Laboratory of the Future? on show in Venice](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/2/9/csm_20230511_Tentoonstelling_Venice_dde6636191.jpg)
With the BK Africa: A laboratory of the future? exhibition hosted Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft as a precursor, the exhibition in Venice brings together a selection of recent projects, research, and other initiatives that address the rapid transformation of the African continent. The work was developed by students, faculty, and partners in Africa of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment.
08 May 2023
TU Delft focuses on battery of the future
![TU Delft focuses on battery of the future](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/5/3/csm_Header%20websitebericht%20e4Battery%20%28optie%201%29_3bb5c73b84.jpg)
A major challenge in the energy transition is the efficient and flexible storage and transportation of renewable energy. Batteries will play an important role in this. However, much research and innovation are still required. In order to encourage this, on Thursday 11 May 2023 TU Delft will be launching e4BatteryDelft: a brand-new platform that will focus on electrochemical storage of renewable energy – with respect for the world around us, in a way that is affordable and also totally European.
08 May 2023
Project ‘Cowborgs in the polder’: from designed dairy landscapes to nitrogen crisis
![Project ‘Cowborgs in the polder’: from designed dairy landscapes to nitrogen crisis](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/9/c/csm_230508_cowborgs_headerbeeld_7473b00917.png)
Automated technologies have driven the transformation and growth of the Dutch dairy industry. Today, this sector is questioned for its adverse effect on nature, especially in the context of the nitrogen crisis. To better address environmental problems caused by farming, it is important to understand how the use of automation and other digital technologies in this sector is affecting those places where food is produced.
04 May 2023
Pressure on Dutch housing market eases further
![Pressure on Dutch housing market eases further](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/d/e/csm_230503_MonitorKoopwoningmarkt_c7939d07e3.jpg)
In the first quarter of 2023, the downward trend in housing market prices continues. The number of homes sold in the existing housing stock also appears to be at a lower level than we were used to in previous years. Yet there is certainly no free fall in the housing market. The market is becoming calmer, giving consumers a bit more choice and increasingly they dare to bid beneath the asking price. However, the limited production of new homes in the owner-occupied sector and the continuing growth in population will keep pressure on the housing demand, making price increases more likely in the medium term.
13 April 2023
Research at Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment highly rated
![Research at Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment highly rated](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/6/8/csm_20230413_Onderzoeksvisitatie_2_5db2a50887.jpg)
In late November 2022, a committee of eminent experts visited the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment to form an opinion on our research (2016-2021). The committee's findings are downright positive.
12 April 2023
Future of a disputed line
![Future of a disputed line](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/0/6/csm_230412_omstreden%20linie_02_9266799d0a.png)
Our past sometimes has controversial sides regarding heritage when it’s linked for example to the Second World War or slavery. When protecting this controversial heritage, you need to have a good plan to appreciate the different visions and sensitivities regarding this heritage. Of course, heritage experts prefer to preserve relics from the past. But what is the public opinion of people living close by this multifocal past?
07 April 2023
Open technology laureate for ‘UPCAST GLASS: Upcycling waste glass by casting’
![Open technology laureate for ‘UPCAST GLASS: Upcycling waste glass by casting’](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/7/0/csm_230407_upcast-glass_7f03e6ccac.jpg)
Glass recycling provides opportunities for recovering materials and reducing production energy demand, but most non-container glass is currently down-cycled or landfilled at end-of-life, because glass production processes cannot accommodate the contamination and compositional variations of waste glass streams.
07 April 2023
"We won't solve the housing crisis by building 1 million houses"
!["We won't solve the housing crisis by building 1 million houses"](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/9/6/csm_230407_1Mhomes_headerbeeld_d059b9595d.jpg)
Nowadays, the housing crisis is high on the political agenda. But that was not the case in 2019. However, at TU Delft, the contours of the problem were already visible. Marja Elsinga (Professor of Housing Institutions & Governance) was asked to lead the 1M Homes project. The main question was: is it necessary to build an additional one million homes or can it be solved differently.
07 April 2023
Groeifondsgelden for Future-proof living environment
![Groeifondsgelden for Future-proof living environment](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/0/1/csm_230407_Groeifonds_headerbeeld_6687fe2172.jpg)
With the Groeifondsgelden (National Growth Fund), the Dutch government is investing billions in projects that will ensure long-term economic growth. Recently, the final budget was allocated for the Future-proof Living Environment program, where industrial new construction and renovation solutions are being (re)developed.
28 March 2023
"Sustainable applications will not solve all problems on their own."
!["Sustainable applications will not solve all problems on their own."](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/3/7/csm_230328_Interview_ArjanvanTimmeren_header_500a741a5d.jpg)
What words are needed to express what you experience when you read the IPCC reports and the newspapers? To describe a truly sustainable future? Silke Jonk (industrial ecology student TU Delft) and Elise Chalcraft (former sociology and urban studies student, EUR) created a dictionary of ten new terms. One is presented to Arjan van Timmeren professor of Environmental Technology & Design and scientific director of Resilient Delta Initiative.
28 March 2023
Four designs for earthquake-resistant shelters for Turkey and Syria
![Four designs for earthquake-resistant shelters for Turkey and Syria](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/c/4/csm_START-Final-33_537c67f493.jpg)
Modular homes that can be quickly adapted to a family situation, cleverly reusing rubble as building material for temporary housing, setting up emergency shelters in tent camps in such a way that communities can still be together. With such housing solutions and designs came 50 students from TU Delft after an education week on earthquake-resistant building and architecture after humanitarian disasters.
28 March 2023
Dick van Gameren reappointed as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment
The Executive Board has reappointed Professor Dick van Gameren as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment He took office as dean on April 2019 and will begin a second four-year term on April 1 next.
16 March 2023
Faculty scientists at UN Water Conference
![Faculty scientists at UN Water Conference](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/7/8/csm_indis%20droogte_6c5fb3f821.jpg)
Following World Water Day, there is a United Nations international conference on water in the week of March 20-24. This UN Water Conference is about accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis. Scientists and stakeholders from around the world come together at the UN Water Conference to share their knowledge. There are also several contributions from TU Delft and our faculty.
16 March 2023
100 years of Maison d'Artiste myth - The future belongs to engineers
![100 years of Maison d'Artiste myth - The future belongs to engineers](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/5/1/csm_20230316_Maison_dArtiste_94a753039e.jpg)
In 1923, Maison d'Artiste was designed by Cor van Eesteren and Theo van Doesburg in Paris. A world-famous design, but never built. Led by em. prof Mick Eekhout, students at the time built a prototype in 2002, which will soon be placed on the faculty's forecourt. Eekhout recently developed an innovative method by which the maison house could be realised in a 1:1 scale.
14 March 2023
Campus NL 2023-2027: research for and by universities
![Campus NL 2023-2027: research for and by universities](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/b/f/csm_230314_CampusNL_uitsnede_v2_f7a20e8622.jpg)
Universities in the Netherlands face a number of common challenges in managing their campuses. These include dilemmas concerning hybrid working and studying , dynamics in the numbers of incoming students, the shortage of (student) housing, sustainability and a healthy work environment. Over the next four years, the Campus NL research project will bring together these challenges to make campus management at each of the 14 Dutch universities more effective and efficient.
13 March 2023
Students design shelters for stricken Syria and Turkey
![Students design shelters for stricken Syria and Turkey](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/9/2/csm_aardbeving_c432fdf6a2.jpg)
Currently, thousands of affected residents of Turkey and Syria are bivouacking in the icy outdoors without basic necessities. As is often the case in a disaster zone, there are insufficient suitable shelter or emergency locations to accommodate all those affected by a disaster. At the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, a team of students and experts took the initiative to use their expertise to design a modular shelter.
08 March 2023
The positive changes that female architects bring
![The positive changes that female architects bring](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/2/e/csm_230308_Womens%20Day_v2_17449c57b8.jpg)
On the occasion of International Women's Day, with the theme of "Choice Challenge", the Consulate General of the Netherlands in Guangzhou is organising a salon exchange for female architects. The goal is to build an interactive platform between Chinese and foreign female architects and share the growth stories and valuable experiences of female architects. Caroline Newton is invited to join.
08 March 2023
Carola Hein honoured with the Open Education Ambassador Award
![Carola Hein honoured with the Open Education Ambassador Award](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/f/d/csm_230308_OpenEducationAward_66e21a88f6.png)
On 7 March, in the occasion of Open Education Week 2023, eight TU Delft lecturers received the award in recognition of their commitment to openly share knowledge and educational resources with the world. From our Faculty professor Carola Hein received the Award.
07 March 2023
Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunities
![Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunities](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/0/c/csm_2022-06-07_MC_04_VRLAB_Photo_by_Joep_van_Aert_002_resized_0a4a7b849d.jpg)
Excellent postdocs and recent PhD graduates who would like to apply for the Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (MSCA-PF-2023) are invited to express their interest. Selected candidates will receive support from our university to write a successful proposal for this call.
01 March 2023
Delft University of Technology wins 2022 edX Prize for innovation in online teaching on sustainable urban development
![Delft University of Technology wins 2022 edX Prize for innovation in online teaching on sustainable urban development](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/c/a/csm_arch_ghd1x_edx_1920p%20%281%29_380ea0ead4.jpg)
26 February 2023
Unique scale model in the making: Tower of Vladmir Tatlin
![Unique scale model in the making: Tower of Vladmir Tatlin](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/3/b/csm_20230226_Toren_header_2a501e003a.jpg)
No one knows exactly how Vladimir Tatlin's Tower was put together. There are only a few drawings, sketches and images of the tower. And a limited number of previously made scale models; but are they accurate? Currently, Bas Vahl (Modelling Techniques) and Peter Koorstra (Form Studies) are reconstructing and building a new scale model of this extraordinary tower in the model hall.
15 February 2023
Diversity and Inclusion 2.0: an interview with the D&I Team
![Diversity and Inclusion 2.0: an interview with the D&I Team](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/6/6/csm_Robert%20and%20Cecile%20-%20oostserre_c69e0f6859.jpg)
From February 2023, Roberto Rocco leaves the function of Faculty Diversity and Inclusion Officer, to be taken up by Robert (Bob) Gorny. Together with Cécile Calis in the new function of Community Officer, they will work as a team to help make BK an environment that fosters diversity and inclusivity in both structure and operation. We would like to look back with them on the past two years and look ahead to the coming period.
09 February 2023
Purchase prices continue to fall on the Dutch owner-occupied housing market for the time being
![Purchase prices continue to fall on the Dutch owner-occupied housing market for the time being](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/f/6/csm_20230209_Monitor_Koopwoningmarkt_3e531a5cec.jpg)
While the number of homes sold in the existing housing stock remains fairly stable, the fall in purchase prices continues steadily in the fourth quarter of 2022. The sharp rise in mortgage interest rates in recent months has direct consequences for households' borrowing capacity. In combination with the recent fall in purchase prices, this rise in mortgage interest rates is also making potential buyers more risk-averse.
23 January 2023
The Antoni van Leeuwenhoek year starts with the free exhibition: FOCUS
![The Antoni van Leeuwenhoek year starts with the free exhibition: FOCUS](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/d/7/csm_Focus%20img1_9948a239be.png)
“FOCUS: 25 students designing for Antoni van Leeuwenhoek" is a one-of-a-kind exhibition showcasing the creative possibilities of displaying the history of microbiology through the eyes of architecture students. The exhibition, located in OPEN Delft, takes place in honor of the year of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, a key figure in the history of microbiology research. This year it has been 300 years since Antoni van Leeuwenhoek passed away in Delft after having lived and worked here for over 90 years.
18 January 2023
Spaces of Display 'FOCUS: 25 students designing for Antoni van Leeuwenhoek'
![Spaces of Display 'FOCUS: 25 students designing for Antoni van Leeuwenhoek'](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/2/9/csm_20230113_Expo_Spaces_of_Display_DEF_DEEF_cbcf0b28a8.png)
Spaces of Display is a one-of a-kind exhibition showcasing the creative possibilities of displaying the history of microbiology through the eyes of architecture students. The exhibition ‘FOCUS: 25 students designing for Antoni van Leeuwenhoek’ takes place in honour of the year of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, a key figure in the history of microbiology research.
12 January 2023
Second life for healthcare buildings by redesign
![Second life for healthcare buildings by redesign](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/9/9/csm_230112_ThijsAsselbergs_9b05646720.jpg)
Professor Thijs Asselbergs is advocating architect John Habraken's Open Building (Open Bouwen). "This way of building has a positive impact on circularity, adaptability and also promotes user influence." Following the case to renovate the Amsterdam UMC, Asselbergs was interviewed on the subject by FMTHealthcare.
11 January 2023
Women’s occupational health has not really been very well understood
![Women’s occupational health has not really been very well understood](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/3/7/csm_230112_AmyThomas_d20d7cdfc1.jpg)
What implications does office design have on gender equality? The project Dr. Amy Thomas is currently working on is through an NWO Veni grant and it’s called ‘Her Office’. It’s a historical investigation of how workplace design was somehow gendered or had implications for gender equality. Thomas is conducting historical research on this topic and was interviewed by TU Delta for this purpose.
20 December 2022
VR increases confidence in renovations
![VR increases confidence in renovations](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/1/e/csm_221220_VR_Unsplash_MaximHopman_e4a93fa3b3.jpg)
A resident is facing a major renovation of his rental property. What does the renovation entail? What choices can a tenant make himself? What kind of preparations should he make, and what will the final result look like? Virtual reality enables residents to walk through all of the stages in half an hour, from demolition to the final result.
16 December 2022
Digital citizen engagement with heritage – an EHT podcast
![Digital citizen engagement with heritage – an EHT podcast](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/e/a/csm_221216_header_podcast_verkleind_5ccf441b3f.png)
In an EHT podcast researcher Nan Bai explains how social media can help to understand citizens’ engagement with heritage sites. In response to Bai, Inez Weyermans of the City of Amsterdam’s heritage department, provides her views on dilemmas concerning the appreciation of Amsterdam’s famous Canal ring area.
15 December 2022
Bieke Cattoor new member for The Young Academy
![Bieke Cattoor new member for The Young Academy](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/2/d/csm_20221215_CATTOOR%20Bieke%20_LOWRES_c91d76adf5.jpg)
This year Bieke Cattoor of the department Urbanism, section Landscape Architecture, is one of the new members of The Young Academy. The Young Academy is a dynamic and innovative group of scientists and scholars with outspoken views about science and scholarship and the related policy.
07 December 2022
Delft Design for Diversity thesis award
![Delft Design for Diversity thesis award](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/f/3/csm_221207_DelftDesignforDiversity_90d8cde1c8.jpg)
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are among the main societal values advanced by our TU Delft community. To celebrate, raise awareness and learn from experiences in designing with and for diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) at Bouwkunde, a thesis award will be launched for Master’s and PhD theses that explicitly address diversity, equity and inclusion in innovative ways.
05 December 2022
Doing research while walking in the countryside
![Doing research while walking in the countryside](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/6/f/csm_221205_wandelend%20door%20het%20Noorden_bijgesneden_5a0c524a52.jpg)
Like many, Professor Zef Hemel discovered the pleasure and usefulness of walking during the corona period. "By walking, you reconnect with your natural surroundings, it does something to your body and mind," he reports in the Leeuwarder Courant. In recent weeks, he has explored the countryside of Groningen while hiking.
01 December 2022
Taking weighty decisions for a safe and liveable country
![Taking weighty decisions for a safe and liveable country](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/9/d/csm_RDD_IABR_Midden-Delfland_View-richting-Rotterdam_6_Zus-Flux-en-Sweco_279a9ac679.jpg)
Subsidence, salinisation, climate change, population growth, social dichotomies and dwindling resources. Nature systems and societies in urban deltas around the world are struggling. The Netherlands is no exception and, for this reason, professor of Delta Urbanism Chris Zevenbergen is making the case for greater imagination in science and public administration.
23 November 2022
EdX course Global Housing Design finalist for the edX Prize
![EdX course Global Housing Design finalist for the edX Prize](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/a/7/csm_edX%20Prize_Top%2010%20Finalists_Social%20Media_2c3be660bf.png)
EdX course Global Housing Design has been selected as one of the finalist for the edX Prize for Exceptional Contributions in Online Teaching and Learning. The 10 finalists represent best-in-class online learning experiences that deliver learner-centric, impactful outcomes on the edX platform.