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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.

Careful reading of the history- and understanding of the social conditions of a place, form the basis of her thorough design visions. Especially in transformation and redevelopment plans, such as Binck Blocks in The Hague, where the cultural history of an old factory site can be felt in the new nature-inclusive living- and working area. Working in Russia represents an even more complex challenge in this regard. The scale and ambition of projects such as Forum City make it possible to innovate on all fronts. Here, Marianne works on extensive designs that are firmly anchored in their local, societal context. Idealistic about the future, realistic enough to get it done.

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. In 2022 she was appointed Spoorbouwmeester, the integral advisor to the NS and ProRail on spatial quality around Dutch railway stations.