Biographies Jo Barnett is originally from London and studied Fine Art. While working in a public access arts project on the notorious Aylesbury Housing Estate in South London, but living in an idyllic squat in North London, she developed an interest in the wider issues of the built environment. She later became involved in the Housing Cooperative movement, which required a great deal of hands-on building work. Embarking on an architecture degree made perfect sense, and combined interests and skills that she had developed. Finishing her studies at the Architectural Association under the tutelage of the brilliant Peter Salter brought her full circle, and back to a sensitive precision and accuracy of intension in design. She has been lucky enough to combine practice with teaching since graduation, which has allowed for a constant reflective space while making buildings. She moved to Holland in 1998 and started Berger Barnett Architects and is currently involved in the design of schools and collective housing projects. The work of the practice is regularly published. Noël van Dooren, is a landscape architect, writer and researcher. He has worked at H+N+S Landscape Architects and as the head of the Landscape Architecture department of the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture. He will shortly receive his doctorate from the University of Amsterdam with a thesis on the representation of time in contemporary landscape architecture, focusing on its application in professional practice and education. Van Dooren is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Landscape Architecture. Since 2006, he has coordinated the C3 Design Methodology series at the Academy. Tom Frantzen started as an independent architect after winning the Charlotte Köhler Award in 1996 for a range of projects at the intersection of visual art and architecture. Since then, his office has won several competitions and completed a number of high quality buildings. Frantzen has recently taken on a more entrepreneurial role by developing architectural projects from initiation to completion as an architect-developer. Since 2008, he has been chairman of the Environmental Design & Cultural
Heritage Committee Utrecht, which advises the city council on the spatial qualities of all building activities in the area. In 2011, Frantzen was appointed at the Creative Industries Fund as the chairman of the advisory committee on Local Architectural Institutes and as a member of the interdisciplinary advisory committee on Architecture, Design and E-culture. Harma Horlings is a landscape architect (AvB) and has been affiliated with the Academy of Architecture as a guest lecturer since 2000. She is coordinator of the lecture series about design methodology and conducted literature research into creativity within that context. Since 2006, she has been working as senior advisor at the Dutch National Forest Service (Staatsbosbeheer). Before that, she worked for H+N+S Landscape Architects. In addition, she is a member of the Qualityteam des Beemsters (an interdisciplinary team that advices on new developments in the Beemster Polder World Heritage Site) and the advisory committee of alumni working in the field at the Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences. She is particularly interested in activities at the interface of practice, research and teaching. Amsterdam-based architect JanRichard Kikkert graduated with honours from Delft University of Technology. After working for several years at internationally acclaimed firms, he continued his education at the Berlage Institute Amsterdam. After graduating with a thesis on ‘Beauty’, he started his own office ‘Architectenbureau K2’, where he still practices. K2 was named one of the 20 most promising architecture practices in Holland with the exhibition ‘The Elite of Tomorrow’ and has won several competitions including Europan6. He is currently teaching at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture as well as the Umeå School of Architecture. He has also taught at the Münster School of Architecture, as well as at most of the architecture schools within the Netherlands. In the last five years, he has researched the works of John Lautner and was made a member of the advisory committee for the John Lautner Foundation. He was awarded a state grant for his research.
Frits Palmboom is professor of practice at the Van Eesteren chair at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. This chair deals with urban design in relation to the physical conditions of the Dutch delta landscape. He studied urban planning and design at the Technical University of Delft. He has been running Palmbout Urban Landscapes (Rotterdam) with Jaap van den Bout and Jeroen Ruitenbeek since 1990, working on designs for spatial planning, landscapes and outdoor spaces. Palmboom was responsible for the urban design of IJburg (Amsterdam) and Ypenburg (The Hague). He has published in many professional journals and books. Paul Roncken studied landscape architecture at Wageningen University and returned to work at his former department after seven years of commercial design experience at landscape design offices such as H+N+S, B+B, Copijn Utrecht and the municipality of Nijmegen. In his current job as BSc coordinator and design teacher/researcher, he focuses on design education and sublime aesthetics. His writing touches on subjects including design critique, new agricultural landscapes and creative methodology. Jan Peter Wingender studied at Eindhoven University of Technology and the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam. He worked for Rudy Uytenhaak and then set up his own firm, Wingender Hovenier Architecten, together with Joost Hovenier. In 2013, he established Office Winhov together with partners Joost Hovenier and Uri Gilad. In addition to his involvement with the office projects, Jan Peter Wingender regularly gives lectures, writes about architecture and is a member of various advisory committees and juries. He is frequently invited to be guest lecturer and critic at various architecture schools in the Netherlands and abroad. From 2003 to 2007, he was head of the architecture course of study at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture. Since 2010, Wingender has been lecturer researching Tectonics in Contemporary Brick Architecture at the Amsterdam Universityof the Arts.