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 on landscape-based
urbanism, sustainable urban landscape development, designwith
natural processes, designed heritage landscapes & gardens and digital
landscape architecture. He is the Department of Urbanism Research Leader
and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Delft University of Technology,
and an Associate at OKRA Landscape Architects.
Nijhuis is an advisor to NGO’s, governmental and regional authorities across
the world and serves on the boards of the TU Delft Department of Urbanism,
the Chabot Museum Rotterdam, and the Dutch School of Landscape Architecture
(DSL). He is also Editor in Chief of the Research in Urbanism Series (RiUS),
Editor of Bulletin KNOB (Royal Netherlands Society for Architecture, Urban and
Landscape Heritage) 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.
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
Consortium meeting NSFC-NWO-EPRSC funded project 'Adaptive Urban Transformation' at TU Delft with lectures, workshops and fieldtrips. TU Delft, SCUT and UoS on adaptive planning and design of the Pearl River Bay Region
Two Invited public lectures at Southwest Jiaotong University, School of Architecture and Design in Chengdu & Southeast University, School of Architecture in Nanjing in period 13-18 June 2019
Research and design workshop organised by Institute of Landscape Architecture, Zheijang
University (Hangzhou, China) and Department of Urban Planning and Design, Xi'An Jiatong Liverpool University (Suzhou, China)
This project aims to create a spatial design
atlas for the sustainable conservation and development of Gelderland's castles
and historic country estates in a landscape context
Two Invited public lectures University of Miami, School of Architecture (Miami) & University of South Florida, Florida Center for Community Design + Research (Tampa)
Steffen
Nijhuis, Egbert Stolk and Maarten-Jan Hoekstra have been awarded the Reed &
Mallik Medal 2018 for their academic paper: Teaching urbanism: the Delft approach
Workshops and lectures on various topics in urban planning and landscape architecture at the School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology (China) and Graduation School Shenzhen, Harbin Institute of Technology SZ
The course addresses landscape‐based regional design as a strategy for urban development. The objective is to get to know concepts for understanding, planning and design sustainable development of a region, as well as setting the scene for local projects
The project aims to develop an integrative and multiscale design and planning approach for adaptive urban transformation in fast urbanizing deltas with Pearl River Delta as case study
The projects aim to develop principles for designing adaptive coastal built environments that enhance BwN-processes and contribute to the natural adaptation and sustainable development of urban coastal zones
In deze publicatie staat het landschap als vestigingsvoorwaarde centraal. In het bijzonder hoe Nederlandse regio’s aan het onderwerp werken, en experimenteerruimte creëren door middel van concrete pilots
