Steffen Nijhuis is an internationally experienced academic, designer, project leader, and author of award-winning publications. By training, he is a landscape architect and a gardener.
His work focuses onlandscape-based
urbanism, utilizing the understanding of the landscape system and its social, cultural and ecological processes ~ landscape logic ~ as the basis for sustainable urban planning and design. The core of the approach consists of designing with nature, people and history. Related areas of expertise are: landscape-based solutions for urbanization, biodiversity and climate adaptation, landscape-based regional design, designed heritage landscapes & gardens and digital
landscape architecture.
He is a Full Professor of Landscape-based Urbanism, Head of the Section Landscape Architecture and Scientific Director of the XR Design Laboratory at Delft University of Technology.
Nijhuis is an advisor to NGO’s, governmental and regional authorities across
the world and serves on the Board of the TU Delft Department of Urbanism, the Board of ICOMOS Netherlands and the Board of Directors of the Chabot Museum Rotterdam. He is also Editor in Chief of the Research in Urbanism Series (RiUS) and the Springer Urban Studies Book Series.
Supervision of PhD, post-MSc and MSc graduation
projects are core activities. Furthermore, he is Visiting Professor and Guest
Lecturer at Universities in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North America. Read more...
Affiliated with Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and The Built Environment, Department of Urbanism, Section of Landscape Architecture
Visiting East-Kalimantan with Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities Alliance exploring possibilities to collaborate with National Capital Authority on sustainable urbanization and biodiversity
Towards a resilient and future-proof satoyama landscape in Kameoka-Kyoto (Japan) was the main theme of an international symposium and design workshop, 18-22 October 2023
The World Cities Day Event was organised by Doh Eain and the Young City Shapers with kind support from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Myanmar, 31 October 2024
Keynote address at The 10th “21st Century Urban Development” International Conference, organized by Urban Planning Society of China and School of Architecture and Urban Planning, HUST, 14-15th October 2023, Wuhan, China and TV-item 5 pm Hubei & Wuhan News
International conference organized by the International Building Exhibition (IBA) Thuringia and Urban Rural Assembly (URA), 5 May 2023, Apolda, Germany
Keynote Ruimtelijke voorwaarden voor een leefbare toekomst van de Zuid-Hollandse kustregio 17 Maart 2023 ism Gemeente Delft, Den Haag, Leiden en Zoetermeer en de Provincie Zuid-Holland
Keynote address at water as leverage event organized by Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and South China University of Technology 30 March 2023, Guangzhou
Invited lecture and essay on the potential role of digital technology and data in spatial planning and design at the Architecture Centre AORTA, Utrecht
13.000+ participants in international conference 12 November 2022 organised by the Urban Planning Society of China and School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Suzhou University of Science and Technology
This lecture series offers designerly perspectives on greening cities and bridges theory and
practice in landscape-based urbanism, urban forestry and urban ecology.
Climate robust heritage estate landscapes thanks to the utilization of systems thinking, co-creation and design power. Interview in Beeldspraak Magazine
Alumni Yu Liu wins 3rd price in Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture (CHSLA) and American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA) competition (500 entries)
Research by design on innovation districts Knowledge Region by the Sea 2070 with students and professionals from the Municipalities The Hague, Delft, Zoetermeer, Leiden and Province of South Holland
Inspiration meeting in Nijmegen on ‘Green, Healthy and Liveable Cities', organized by De Groene Stad, with Ton Verhoeven, Steffen Nijhuis and Madeleen Helmer
Alumni Yangjiao Wang wins 3rd price International Federation of Landscape Architecture competition with project ‘Forest landscape restoration for climate-adaptive estates in the Baakse Beek region, Gelderland’
OKRA landschapsarchitecten and Nelen & Schuurmans combine excellence in landscape architecture, geo-information technology and climate adaptation for a more resilient and climate proof green blue Antwerp
Invited lecture entitled 'Flowscapes. Designing Urban Landscape Infrastructures' and workshop 'Cartographic explorations' at the Urban Design Master's Program at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jeruzalem, Israel, 6-8 January 2021
Interview in Chinese journal Landscape Architecture 风景园林, with backgrounds and principles of The Delft Approach to Urbanism, illustrated with applications of this method by projects
The paper ‘Exploring Spatial Relationships in the Pearl River Delta’ from Liang Xiong and Steffen Nijhuis has been awarded as 'Springer Nature 2019 Highlight', a recognition for most popular papers, and reflecting top research that made an impact
Keynote lecture & executive meetings on adaptive coastal design and resilient urban landscapes in Mexico Beach, Tallahassee and Sanibel-Captiva, Florida. In collaboration with Brian Cook, USF, SCCF, COTI, CEPTD, City of Sanibel
Evening news-item at WINK TV Southwest Florida providing input on strengthening coastal resilience of Sanibel-Captiva Island Florida (USA), 5 P.M., 6 March 2020
Multidisciplinary workshop with leading archaeologists, anthropologists, urban designers and landscape architects at National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), USA
Two invited keynote lectures at Annual Planning Conference China 2019, 18-21 October, Chongqing (China) and Landscape Forum 2019, 12-13 October, Beijing (China) on landscape-based regional design
