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I’ll be adding more texts and writing in the coming weeks. I at least wanted to get this up before I run out the door- I’m off to eastern France for a couple of weeks where the internet connection will be a bit more sporadic than downtown Amsterdam… Foodprint at STROOM architectural center Den Haag: […]

Every day I take advantage of the many green spaces Amsterdam has to offer, on a variety of scales. I start on my own balcony with a little of urban gardening tending- pruning the tomatoes, checking on the courgettes, tasting some dill or cutting some thyme for a recipe. Next I run down tree lined […]

“Imagining New Venice” was one of my favorite visualization and rendering projects that I did before going freelance.  The competition called for the development of a parcel of land with quite a heavy program of housing, golf course, and marina. Although not as widely known as say, Dutch polders, these agricultural lands at the mouth […]

I am an ecological designer, which brings together the science of ecology with the dynamic creative processes of design . My goal is to bring inspiration and new concepts based on living systems to the fields of landscape architecture, urbanism, and industrial design. My practice is research based, aesthetically oriented, and intellectually driven. In this most challenging of times I hope to bring my energy and experience to projects that will build a vital, green, and inviting future.

We have been working for a while on an artificial beach near the city of Utrecht, on the edge of a large lake created by sand mining. These collages are meant to capture the atmosphere of the design we propose. Large oval shaped mounded dunes partially covered with grasses, worn wooden poles anchoring the hills […]

It is becoming clear to me that representation is a design method unto itself. More than just describing how a project will look, or its atmosphere, being able to manifest a design through constructed images lets clients see, react, feel, and make decisions about a design. In this case our client did not know exactly […]