Dr.ir. S.I. de Wit

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Biography

Saskia de Wit studied landscape architecture at Wageningen University (1987-1993) and Architecture and Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology (1990-1992). She worked as a designer at Jacobsen Landscape Architects (Cheltenham UK, 1992-1993) and the Department of Town Planning and Housing in Rotterdam (2004-2005). In 1998 she founded Saskia de Wit Landscape Architecture.   
Since 1993 she has been connected to the Chair of Landscape Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture in Delft, where she is involved as a assistant professor in research, education and organization. She has also taught at other educational institutions, such as the Academies of Architecture in Amsterdam and Groningen and the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 2014 she graduated with a thesis entitled 'Hidden Landscapes; The Metropolitan Garden and the Genius Loci.'

She also is actively committed to developing and disseminating knowledge. She is affiliated with the Dutch Association of Garden and Landscape Architecture (NVTL) and the Garden Historical Society Cascade. From 2006 to 2009 she participated in the steering committee for the establishment of the DSL (Dutch School of Landscape Architecture), a collaboration between Wageningen University, Delft University of Technology, the Academy of Architecture, Van Hall-Larenstein Velp, HAS College Den Bosch and NVTL. She has organised several seminars, workshops and exhibitions, has participated in juries, and has been a guest editor for the journal Tuin & Landschap.

Expertise

Landscape architectural design and research on all scales. The starting point is the same on all scales: how are the patterns, the images, the spatial relationships, or in other words the characteristics of the existing landscape, translated into an architectural design for the landscape, an urban fragment, or a building? In research and practice her expertise is in Public Space Design, Garden Design, Dutch Polderscapes, the History of Landscape and Landscape Architecture, and Planting, with a strong emphasis on the relationship between Analysis and Design.

publications

Publications in Pure

subjects

2005 - Seminar: Architecture of Dwelling

• Code: AR0672 ECTS Points: 9

2007 - Villa Urbana - Analysis

• Code: AR0063 ECTS Points: 5

2006 - Villa Urbana - Design Project

• Code: AR0062 ECTS Points: 10

2006 - Villa Urbana - Analysis

• Code: AR0063 ECTS Points: 5

2007 - Villa Urbana - Essay/Lecture Series

• Code: AR0061 ECTS Points: 5

2007 - Villa Urbana - Analysis

• Code: AR0063 ECTS Points: 5

2009 - Workshop 1: Plan Analysis

• Code: AR0165 ECTS Points: 4

2009 - Workshop 1: Plan Analysis

• Code: AR0165 ECTS Points: 4

2009 - Design Project

• Code: AR0162 ECTS Points: 12

2007 - Villa Urbana Workshop - Current Landscape Architecture

• Code: AR0064 ECTS Points: 5

2007 - Villa Urbana - Drawing Research

• Code: AR0065 ECTS Points: 5

2007 - Villa Urbana - Design Project

• Code: AR0062 ECTS Points: 10

2009 - Principles of Urbanism

• Code: BK8060 ECTS Points: 2

2008 - Villa Urbana - Analysis

• Code: AR0063 ECTS Points: 5

2009 - Design Project - Completion Assignment: Urban Intervention: The Architecture of the Urban Landscape

• Code: BK6100U ECTS Points: 15

2009 - Ontwerpproject 5: Urbanism

• Code: BK6000-U ECTS Points: 10

2010 - Landscape as Object of Architecture

• Code: AR1LA020 ECTS Points: 3

2010 - Research by Drawing: Drawing as a Design Tool

• Code: AR1LA030 ECTS Points: 3

2010 - Green Architecture: Designing with Plants

• Code: AR1LA040 ECTS Points: 3

2008 - Villa Urbana - Design Project

• Code: AR0062 ECTS Points: 10

2009 - Lecture Series

• Code: AR0161 ECTS Points: 4

2009 - Lecture Series

• Code: AR0161 ECTS Points: 4

2009 - Workshop 2: Landscape components

• Code: AR0166 ECTS Points: 4

2009 - Design Project Landscape & Architecture light

• Code: AR0066 ECTS Points: 9

2010 - Villa Urbana: Design of an Experimental Ensemble

• Code: AR1LA010 ECTS Points: 6

2010 - Villa Urbana: Design of an Experimental Ensemble

• Code: AR1LA010 ECTS Points: 6

2010 - Green Architecture: Designing with Plants

• Code: AR1LA040 ECTS Points: 3

2011 - Villa Urbana: Design of an Experimental Ensemble

• Code: AR1LA010 ECTS Points: 6

2011 - Green Architecture: Designing with Plants

• Code: AR1LA040 ECTS Points: 3

2011 - Stedenbouwkundige Basisbegrippen 3

• Code: BK3020 ECTS Points: 2

2011 - Green Architecture: Designing with Plants

• Code: AR1LA040 ECTS Points: 3

2011 - Villa Urbana: Design of an Experimental Ensemble

• Code: AR1LA010 ECTS Points: 6

2011 - Landscape as Object of Architecture

• Code: AR1LA020 ECTS Points: 3

2011 - Research by Drawing: Drawing as a Design Tool

• Code: AR1LA030 ECTS Points: 3

2011 - Designing with Natural Processes

• Code: AR3LA030 ECTS Points: 5

2012 - Green Architecture: Designing with Plants

• Code: AR1LA040 ECTS Points: 3

2012 - Villa Urbana: Design of an Experimental Ensemble

• Code: AR1LA010 ECTS Points: 6

2013 - Green Architecture: Designing with Plants

• Code: AR1LA040 ECTS Points: 3

2013 - Green Architecture: Designing with Plants

• Code: AR1LA040 ECTS Points: 3

2013 - Landscape as Object of Architecture

• Code: AR1LA020 ECTS Points: 3

2013 - Villa Urbana: Design of an Experimental Ensemble

• Code: AR1LA010 ECTS Points: 6

2013 - Villa Urbana: Design of an Experimental Ensemble

• Code: AR1LA010 ECTS Points: 6

2013 - Designing with Natural Processes

• Code: AR3LA030 ECTS Points: 5

2014 - Workshop: Landscape architectonic design resources: vegetation, soil, water and ecosystems

• Code: BK7610 ECTS Points: 5

2014 - Villa Urbana: Design of an Experimental Ensemble

• Code: AR1LA010 ECTS Points: 6

2014 - Landscape as Object of Architecture

• Code: AR1LA020 ECTS Points: 3

2014 - Green Architecture: Designing with Plants

• Code: AR1LA040 ECTS Points: 3

2014 - Green Architecture: Designing with Plants

• Code: AR1LA040 ECTS Points: 3

2014 - Villa Urbana: Design of an Experimental Ensemble

• Code: AR1LA010 ECTS Points: 6

2014 - Designing with Natural Processes

• Code: AR3LA030 ECTS Points: 5

2015 - Green Architecture: Designing with Plants

• Code: AR1LA040 ECTS Points: 3

2015 - Green Architecture: Designing with Plants

• Code: AR1LA040 ECTS Points: 3

2015 - Landscape as Object of Architecture

• Code: AR1LA020 ECTS Points: 3

2015 - Villa Urbana: Design of an Experimental Ensemble

• Code: AR1LA010 ECTS Points: 6

2015 - Villa Urbana: Design of an Experimental Ensemble

• Code: AR1LA010 ECTS Points: 6

2012 - Villa Urbana: Design of an Experimental Ensemble

• Code: AR1LA010 ECTS Points: 6

2012 - Landscape as Object of Architecture

• Code: AR1LA020 ECTS Points: 3

2012 - Research by Drawing: Drawing as a Design Tool

• Code: AR1LA030 ECTS Points: 3

2012 - Green Architecture: Designing with Plants

• Code: AR1LA040 ECTS Points: 3

2012 - Stedenbouwkundige Basisbegrippen 3

• Code: BK3020 ECTS Points: 2

2012 - Designing with Natural Processes

• Code: AR3LA030 ECTS Points: 5

2013 - Workshop: Landscape architectonic design resources: vegetation, soil, water and ecosystems

• Code: BK7610 ECTS Points: 5

2015 - Graduation Studio Landscape Architecture: Flowscapes

• Code: AR4LA010 ECTS Points: 30

2015 - Graduation Studio Landscape Architecture: Flowscapes

• Code: AR3LA010 ECTS Points: 15

2017 - Graduation Studio Landscape Architecture: Flowscapes

• Code: AR3LA031 ECTS Points: 20

2017 - Graduation Studio Landscape Architecture: Flowscapes

• Code: AR4LA010 ECTS Points: 30

2016 - Green Architecture: Designing with Plants

• Code: AR1LA040 ECTS Points: 3

2016 - Green Architecture: Designing with Plants

• Code: AR1LA040 ECTS Points: 3

2016 - Landscape as Object of Architecture

• Code: AR1LA020 ECTS Points: 3

2016 - Villa Urbana: Design of an Experimental Ensemble

• Code: AR1LA010 ECTS Points: 6

2016 - Villa Urbana: Design of an Experimental Ensemble

• Code: AR1LA010 ECTS Points: 6

2016 - Graduation Studio Landscape Architecture: Flowscapes

• Code: AR4LA010 ECTS Points: 30

2016 - Graduation Studio Landscape Architecture: Flowscapes

• Code: AR3LA031 ECTS Points: 20

2017 - The Fine Dutch Tradition

• Code: AR1LA060 ECTS Points: 3

2017 - Green Architecture: Designing with Plants

• Code: AR1LA040 ECTS Points: 3

2017 - Urban Landscape Systems, Typologies and Strategies

• Code: AR2LA030 ECTS Points: 3

2018 - Green Architecture: Designing with Plants

• Code: AR1LA040 ECTS Points: 3

2018 - The Fine Dutch Tradition

• Code: AR1LA060 ECTS Points: 3

2018 - Urban Landscape Systems, Typologies and Strategies

• Code: AR2LA030 ECTS Points: 3

2018 - Graduation Studio Landscape Architecture: Flowscapes

• Code: AR3LA031 ECTS Points: 20

2018 - Graduation Studio Landscape Architecture: Flowscapes

• Code: AR4LA010 ECTS Points: 30

2018 - Under the sky: Fieldwork

• Code: BK7361 ECTS Points: 10

2018 - Under the sky: Fieldwork

• Code: BK7361 ECTS Points: 10

2018 - Parkscape: Designing Experiences in an Era of Climate Change

• Code: BK7362 ECTS Points: 5

2018 - Parkscape: Designing Experiences in an Era of Climate Change

• Code: BK7362 ECTS Points: 5

2020 - Architecture and Landscape: Theory, Method and Critical Thinking

• Code: AR1LA021 ECTS Points: 5

2020 - Graduation Studio Landscape Architecture: Flowscapes

• Code: AR3LA031 ECTS Points: 20

2019 - Architecture and Landscape: Theory, Method and Critical Thinking

• Code: AR1LA021 ECTS Points: 5

2019 - Graduation Studio Landscape Architecture: Flowscapes

• Code: AR3LA031 ECTS Points: 20

2019 - Graduation Studio Landscape Architecture: Flowscapes

• Code: AR4LA010 ECTS Points: 30