Staff

Nathalie de Vries is an architect and urbanist. She graduated from Delft University of Technology in 1990. De Vries is director and co-founder of globally operating architecture and urban planning firm MVRDV, which she initiated together with Winy Maas and Jacob van Rijs in 1993. Nathalie de Vries has taught at several schools and institutions, including Harvard GSD, IIT Chicago, the Berlage Institute, TU Delft, and the Architecture Academy Arnhem and has been Professor of Architecture at TU Berlin (2002-2004). From 2013 until the summer of 2018 she was Professor at the Baukunstklasse of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. From 2005-2008, she was Chief Railroad Architect of NS/ProRail. Until 2019, De Vries was the president of The Royal Institute of Dutch Architects (BNA). 

Paul Kuitenbrouwer graduated as an architect at the Faculty of Architecture of Delft University of Technology in 1988. He has worked for, among others, Wiel Arets, Bjarne Mastenbroek (SeARCH) and Jo Coenen, for whom he was deputy supervisor of the Sphinx-Céramique site in Maastricht. In 2001 he followed Coenen, who was appointed Dutch Government Architect, to The Hague. From 2006, he has been an assistant professor associated with the Chair of Architecture and Dwelling of Delft University of Technology, where he has conducted research into high-density low-rise housing (Intense Laagbouw) and student housing (bouwjong!). In 2019 he has changed Chair to Public Building (prof. Nathalie de Vries). He teaches both Bachelor’s and Master’s degree design studios and analysis seminars with an emphasis on typology, density and the urban context, and is an editor of DASH. In addition, he has taught at the Academies of Architecture in Amsterdam and Maastricht, and he is chairman of the Board of Examiners for Architects at The Dutch Architect’s Register Agency in The Hague.

Sien van Dam graduated in 1989 from the Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture. From 1986 till 2006 she worked in the office of Emilios Chlimintzas. She has been a lecturer at the faculty since 1990, and joined A-PB as a regular staff in 2000. She has been one of the coordinators of A-PB’s design studios and teaches architectural design. The theme of architectural identity, related with collective memory and the principles of transformation, are the major topics of her interest in architecture. Sien has been co-editor of the books “Idee en Architectuur” and “Kleine openbare gebouwen”. In collaboration with S. Komossa and L. Spoormans, Sien also published “De Transformatie van het Schoolgebouw” (Thoth, 2011).

Dr. Sang Lee is an architect licensed in the State of New York, USA, and appointed as University Docent of Architecture in TU Delft, Netherlands. He teaches architectural design and theory in the Public Building MSc. curriculum and advises master's and doctoral theses. He has regularly served as visiting faculty and critic and delivered lectures in numerous universities in Europe and the United States. In addition to numerous contributions to conferences, journals, and books, Sang conceived, edited, and published "The Domestic and the Foreign in Architecture" (2007) on architecture, cultural identity, and globalization, and "Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture" (2011) on sustainability as a form of aesthetic qualification. His forthcoming titles include the monograph “Architecture in the Age of Apparatus-Centric Culture” and the compendium “Meta-Architecture: Algorithms, Sign Systems, and Umwelten.” He also serves on the editorial board of the SPOOL journal for Cyber-Physical Architecture and as a peer reviewer for various academic journals. He studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (B.Arch.Hon.), Chicago, and the University of Pennsylvania (M.Arch.), Philadelphia, and completed his doctorate in architecture at TU Delft.

Stefan Witteman is an architect who graduated in 1993 from the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft. He worked for various agencies such as MVRDV, KOW and OMA before starting his own practice Current architecture+urbanism in 2015. Since his graduation Stefan teaches at the Academies of Architecture in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam and the Technical University in Delft. In 2021 Stefan became tutor in the master graduation studio for the Public Building Chair.

Henk Bultstra graduated in 1996 from TU Delft. Since 2003, together with Bert Karel Deuten, he has been co-founder and director of Sputnik Architects and since 2014 he also is partner with Paul de Vroom in Team Paul de Vroom + Sputnik. During the past 20 years, Henk periodically has been teaching and lecturing at TU Delft and the Dutch Architecture Academies of Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Tilburg and he has been involved in international student workshops. In 2019 Henk joined the Public Building chair to tutor in the graduation studio.

Gosia Gołąbek is an architect and urbanist.  She studied Architecture and Urban Planning at Technical University in Cracow and Technische Universität Berlin. In 2017 she graduated cum laude from Delft University of Technology at the Chair of Public Building and since 2018 she collaborates with the Chair as a tutor.  Gosia gained her professional experience in Berlin, Rotterdam and Antwerp, currently working as an architect at META architectuurbureau and as an independent designer and researcher.  Her main interests  focus on contemporary phenomenons that define modernity in relation to space, data and object.

Stefano Corbo is an architect and educator. He holds a Ph.D and an M.Arch. II in Advanced Architectural Design from UPM ETSAM Madrid. Before joining TU Delft, he taught at several academic institutions in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and China. Corbo has contributed to several international journals and has published three books: From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman (Ashgate/Routledge, 2015), Interior Landscapes: A Visual Atlas (Images, 2016) and, recently, Notes from the Underworld (Schiffer, 2019). In 2012 Corbo founded his own office, SCSTUDIO, a multidisciplinary network practicing public architecture. Corbo’s research trajectory focuses on the comprehension of spatial and aesthetic conditions that characterize late-capitalist architectural production and that manifest in a diverse constellation of types, typologies and hyperobjects.

Susanne Komossa graduated from the Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture. In 1991, Susanne started her own firm Komossa Architecten BNA in Rotterdam. As Associate Professor of Architectural Design she coordinated, taught and lectured in the masters program of Public Building.

She is the co-editor and author of the book “Atlas van het Hollandse Bouwblok” (Thoth, 2003) Its English edition “Atlas of the Dutch Urban Block” was published in 2005. She also edited and published “Color in Contemporary Architecture” (Uitgeverij SUN, 2009).

Our dear colleague and friend passed away on May 30th 2020.

After graduating in 2007 from Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Indonesia, Endy Prasetyo became an assistant professor in the laboratory of Architecture Design of his alma mater the following year. Having a deep interest in conceptual architecture and its manifestation led him to coordinate an experimental architecture studio in 2014, emphasizing critical thinking and positioning architecture as a conceptual matter. Apart from teaching, he also runs ordes arsitektur, an architecture studio practice he co-founded in 2010. Establishing ordes arsitektur while also teaching would be his action to blur the boundary between academics and practice in architecture. Currently, he is conducting his Ph.D. research in adaptive space by extracting knowledge from adaptive reuse buildings with the association of the Chair of Public Building of the Delft University of Technology under the promoter of Prof. Nathalie de Vries and the supervision of Stefano Corbo.

Anke Elenbaas was born in the South of the Netherlands. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences at the TU Delft in 2020. She worked for CHNL Architecten & Adviseurs in 2020 and did internships at Broekbakema and Brink during her gap year in 2021/2022. Currently she is in her second year of the Master degree course in the track of Architecture at TU Delft, where she will be graduating with the studio Designing for Care (Dwelling). Anke shares the Student Assistant position for Public Building focusing on the website, MSc3/4 graduation studio, Studio High-rise Culture and the Aesthetics in Sustainable Architecture seminar.

Inès van Rijn (1998) was born and raised in Leiden, the Netherlands, and did her Bachelors in Architecture at the TU Delft. For one semester, she lived as an exchange student in Paris, motivated by a curiosity for her second nationality and ENSA Belleville Paris' artistic and analogue approach to architecture. After the first year of the TU Delft Master Track Architecture, she gained professional experience as an intern at DOOR Architects in Amsterdam. During this year she also followed the MSc 2 Public Building studio as an additional course, from where she continued as our chair's student assistant. She is mainly focusing on the MSc 1 and Msc 2 studios as well as the elective seminar Composition and Perception. Meanwhile, Inès is taking a Master degree course in the track of Architecture, in the graduation studio Urban Architecture, with a special interest in social, public and gentle architecture.