Marianne Loof

Marianne Loof graduated with honours from the TU Delft in 1989. In that same year, she founded Loof & van Stigt Architecten in Amsterdam with Jurriaan van Stigt, which in 2005 continued as LEVS architecten together with Adriaan Mout.

Over the past thirty years, Marianne has realised diverse designs in the fields of housing, education and care, as well as complex mixed assignments with cultural and commercial programmes. The new urban challenges of densification, greening and sustainability have meanwhile become a great expertise, at home and abroad.

Studying the history and gaining a deep understanding of a place’s social developments form the basis of her well-founded design visions. This is particularly true of regeneration and repurposing projects, such as Bensdorp in Bussum, where the cultural history of the old factory site is palpable, and The Blox in The Hague, with its stacked neighbourhoods within a nature-integrated residential tower. Plans that are at the heart of society. Idealistic about the future, yet realistic enough to be built.

Marianne sees sustainable spatial quality as a collective responsibility. She is actively involved in the public debate. Between 2011 and 2017, as chair of the Committee for Urban Quality in Amsterdam, she led the modernisation of policy on integrated spatial evaluation. She has been actively involved in the BNA as a member of the board. Between 2018 and 2022 Marianne was chairman of the board of the ARCAM Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape Design in Amsterdam. From 2020 to 2022 she chaired the Committee for Urban Quality in The Hague. From 2022 to 2025 she adviced NS and ProRail as Spoorbouwmeester on integral spatial quality around Dutch railway stations.