Team
Belinda van der Lingen has a Masters degree in Japanese Language and Culture from the University of Leyden. She has lived and worked in various cities around the world, including London and Tokyo. Back in Amsterdam she started her career at Regus office rentals and other real estate businesses holding various management positions. Before starting at BURA Urbanism she previously worked at S333 Studio for Architecture & Urbanism. She has a great interest in architecture, design and fashion.
Marco Broekman
Floris van der Zee
Belinda van der Lingen
Bien Schols
Partner, senior urban planner, architect
Partner, senior urban planner, architect
HR en Finance
Office coördinator
Senior landscape architect
I am a landscape architect. I consider my multidisciplinary background as very important for my design approach. As a designer, I try to explore and understand all the facets and relationships of a place in order to realize projects that have long-lasting value. I am always looking for an integral vision for the place. I studied at the University Kassel in Germany and have more than 10 years of design experience in Germany and the Netherlands.
Christa Rinzema studied Architecture at ETH Zürich and lives in Amsterdam since 1995. After working for fourteen years as senior architect at de Architekten Cie. on architectonical and urban planning projects like Funenpark Amsterdam, she set up her own office and became periodically guest teacher at the Faculty of Architecture & Built Environment at TUDelft and at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. Since 2021 she works as senior projectleader at BURA urbanism.
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.
Christa Rinzema
Senior architect
Bart Claassen
Senior urban planner
Jordy Stamps
Urban geographer, urban designer
Marian Enders
Yunshih Chen
Geert Das (1979) has worked in urban research since his graduation in 2009 from the TU/e as an architect. He worked on a range of research projects for the university and as a freelance researcher. Among his work are historic studies on post-war inner-city redevelopment in the Netherlands and on the relation between religious heritage, landscapes and urban morphogenesis. At BURA he will lead our research projects and will support the research for the design projects.
Yunshih 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.
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.
Geert Das
Saskia Kleij
Basia van Rijt
Researcher, architect
Urban designer
Urban designer
Urban designer
Rebecca Smink (1995) is a junior urban designer who recently earned her master’s degree in urbanism from Delft University of Technology. Before graduating she followed several design courses at universities in Delft, Amsterdam and Melbourne. During her studies, she worked on projects at a range of scales for various design offices. Designing for people has been her key motivator, therefore she aims to develop valuable knowledge and ways of positively impacting socio-spatial processes in cities.
Frank de Boer (1992) is an assistant urban designer. He graduated at the Art Academy Minerva in Groningen with a degree in autonomous Fine Arts. In September 2021 he started the master Urbanism at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. Frank is interested in sustainable urbanism, especially in how urban design will mitigate challenges related to sustainability.
Since December, I have been working at BURA as an assistant designer. In addition to working at BURA, I have been studying at the Academy of Architecture since 2021. I also studied at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, where I gained a solid foundation in urban design I see myself as a designer who wants to make an impact on the future of cities and landscapes and can find solutions to complex problems.
Rebecca Smink
Frank de Boer
Hesse de Jonge
Ollie Schols
Urban planner
Urban designer
Urban designer
Office dog
I’m Carlijn van Giesen. I’m in my third year of my bachelor’s degree Built Environment at the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam. At BURA I’m currently working as an intern. Here, I would like to show how important I think the climate and the future are. I find it important to focus on designing a green and sustainable living environment.
My name is Jenny Ciku, and I am currently in my final year of a bachelor's degree in International Built Environment at Breda University. Being an aspiring urban designer, I am passionate about creating innovative solutions for cities, especially through sustainable design strategies that prioritize walkability, public space and climate change.
Carlijn van Giesen
Jenny Ciku
Intern
Intern
Intern
Richelle Angelique
Photo credits: Joost Bataille
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