Dr.ing. S. (Steffen) Nijhuis
Dr.ing. S. (Steffen) Nijhuis
Research profile
Research Leader Department of Urbanism
Steffen Nijhuis is an internationally experienced academic, designer, project leader, and author of award-winning publications. He has expertise in landscape-based regional design, sustainable urban development, resilient coastal landscapes, designed heritage landscapes & gardens, digital landscape architecture, and visual landscape research. He is also Research Leader Department of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Delft University of Technology.
Next to being advisor to NGO’s, governmental and regional authorities across the world, he is Board member of the Department of Urbanism, TU Delft and Dutch School of Landscape Architecture (DSL). He is 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.
He is supervisor of PhD, post-MSc and MSc graduation projects. Furthermore he is Visiting Professor and Guest Lecturer at Universities in Europe, Asia, Middle East and North-America.
More info: www.steffennijhuis.nl
Expertise
landscape-based regional design, sustainable urban development, resilient coastal landscapes, designed heritage landscapes & gardens, digital landscape architecture, and visual landscape research
Expertise
Publications
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2021
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2021
Building with Nature as a cross-disciplinary approach
The role of hybrid contributions
J. van Bergen / S. Nijhuis / A.D. Brand / M.J.C.M. Hertogh -
2021
Building with Nature perspectives
Cross-disciplinary BwN approaches in coastal regions
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2021
Design studio performance in complex spatial projects: lessons from The Netherlands
J.T. Hinterleitner / T.A. Daamen / S. Nijhuis
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2021
Designing Coastal Interfaces
Landscape architecture explorations in the Pearl River Delta, the Haringvliet and Pekalongan City through six MSc-graduation projects
E.A.M. van Eeden / Y. Gao / Y. Liu / Y. Sun / K. Qi / Y. Zheng -
Media
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2020-03-06
TV News-item about Sanibel-Captiva, Florida
Appeared in: WINK TV Southwest Florida
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2019-05-31
Return of the Herring
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2018-11-23
Voyage Dans La Silicon Valley Chinoise
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2016-11-30
Begrip zoekt lading: ontwerpend onderzoek in de landschapsarchitectuur
Appeared in: Dutch School of Landscape Architecture
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2016-11-28
Eroding the institutional silos
Appeared in: Delta
Prizes
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2020
Springer Nature 2019 Research Highlights in Urban Studies
The book chapter ‘Exploring Spatial Relationships in the Pearl River Delta’, by Liang Xiong and Steffen Nijhuis has been selected as Springer Nature 2019 Highlights in Urban Studies as it is among the top research that made an impact. Its affiliated book ‘Cities as Spatial and Social Networks‘ has been selected as one of the Top Books.
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2018-10-8
Reed & Mallik Medal 2018
Awarded for 'Teaching urbanism: the Delft approach'
ICE Publishing Awards 2018