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Marco Broekman
Floris van der Zee
Belinda van der Lingen
Robert ten Elsen
Partner, senior urban planner, architect
Partner, senior urban planner, architect
Bureau Manager
Senior urban planner
Pınar Balat
Architect
Pinar Balat (1986) is an architect and urban designer. Before acquiring her master's degree from TU Delft she completed her bachelor's in METU, Ankara and her master on collective housing in UPM, Madrid. In the last seven years she worked in various architecture and urban design offices in The Netherlands on projects of housing and neighbourhood-scale urban planning. She aspires to work on research and design projects by which inclusive, equitable and sustainable urban environments are created.
Bart Claassen (1982) is an urban designer, who graduated from the TU Eindhoven on a research about heat mitigation in cities. He worked in architectural and urban design companies in the Netherlands, Sweden and Belgium. Bart worked on projects on various scales, ranging from small scale architectural interventions to eco-districts, and in different countries. Bart has a special interest in sustainability within urban design.
Jordy Stamps (1988) is an urban geographer and urban designer. He studied at Utrecht University (NL) and NHTV (NL) and has been working at BURA since January 2017. There he works on projects in the field of research, strategy and urban development plans. From his start, Jordy has been involved in the urban development plan for the new Merwede urban district in Utrecht; a green, car-free city district with amenities within easy reach.
Yun-shih Chen is an architect from Taiwan. She has worked as architecture and urban designer in private offices and the Municipality of Taipei. During 2015-2017, she attended the European Post-Masters in Urbanism in TU Delft where she graduated with Cum laude. She is enthusiastic in various urban questions, especially in landscape infrastructure, design with water and the integration of urban thinking and architecture.
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Bart Claassen
Senior urban planner
Jordy Stamps
Urban geographer,
urban designer
Yun-shih Chen
Urban designer
Martha Seitanidou
Milja Hartikainen
Martha Seitanidou (1992) is an architect from Greece and recently acquired her Master of Architectural Urban Design at TU/e in Eindhoven. She is currently following the professional traineeship (BEP) for receiving the title of urban planner. She has a special interest in projects that designed on a base of innovation create spaces which are both functional and pleasant. Her motto: work together, design for the people and make the world better.
Jacopo Grilli (1991) is an Urban designer from Italy, graduated in Urbanism at The Politecnico di Milano in 2015. He worked for several design firms in the Netherlands, developing an approach to urban design, related with arts and concept. He obtained the master degree in Urban Design at the Academy of Architecture of Amsterdam in September 2020.
Milja Hartikainen is an architect from Finland. She graduated cum laude after studying at Aalto University and TU Berlin. Previously she worked in architecture and urban design offices, in Finland and in the Netherlands, and at the architecture faculty of TU Berlin. Working on projects from building and neighbourhood scale designs she designed both concepts and realisations. Her aim in work and design is to imagine and facilitate better and more resilient (urban) life with empathy.
Saskia Kleij is an assistant urban designer. She graduated in History of Art at the University of Amsterdam with a specialisation in history of architecture and urbanism. In september 2019 she started the master Urbanism at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. She is especially interested in the interdisciplinary character of urbanism and the wide range of aspects that are important in an urban design, like sustainability, the experience of the user and the history of a place.
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Jacopo Grilli
Saskia Kleij
Architect
Urban designer
Urban designer
Urban designer
Marina Lysenkova
Jimmy Peijnenburg
Timothy Simons
Marina is a junior architect, graduated from the University of Architecture of Lisbon. During her studies, she has collaborated in workshops focused on urban strategic planning and building scale development, for the renovation of the neighborhoods of Barcelona and Istanbul. Afterwards, she worked on design of residential and cultural program projects all the way from conception to execution (Portugal). She joined BURA to strengthen her knowledge between the city, buildings and the environment.
Timothy Simons (1995) is an ambitious, goal-chasing Bachelor’s student studying Urban Design at the “Hogeschool van Amsterdam”. His goal is to be an acknowledged Urban Designer/Architect, who will create sustainable, safe, pleasant and alluring places which allow people to enjoy their day-to-day lives while admiring the built environment that surrounds them. During his 6-months internship at BURA he aims to acquire knowledge that will help stunt his growth into the designer he wants to become.
Jimmy Peijnenburg (2000) is a studying urban planner from Heerhugowaard, The Netherlands. He is doing a 6-months internship at BURA. His aim is to gain a lot of experience in the field and to strengthen the team with his already acquired knowledge learned at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam.
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Architect
Intern
Intern
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