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Practitioners Interview Series | Marita Bijlsma

Marita Bijlsma graduated from architecture at TU Delft in 2008, where she met her partner Thomas Buijs. The pair worked for a long time at architectural firm Fokkema & Partners. There they developed their ideas about architecture together. In 2018 they founded their own agency, ATELIERFRONT. With their small studio they focus on clients who are open to innovative and sustainable ideas. In their designs, the user and the place are central and they strive to create something special, which is also self-evident. With the Gibbon Pavilion in Artis, they were not only nominated for the Abe Bonnema Architecture Prize, but also for the Public Building of the Year (Architectenweb), for the longlist of ARC21 and for the longlist of the Houtbouwprijs. 

Interview with Marita Bijlsma

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Kim Sinnige
Kim Sinnige
Architect

Ir. Kim Sinnige has been working for the Circular Impulse Initiative within the CBE Hub since 2022. She graduated cum laude from the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft in 2023. Her master thesis explored the embedding of circular values into a Waste-to-Energy plant through storytelling, Material Flow Analysis and design. She completed her bachelor with honors at the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Eindhoven in 2018. Between her degrees, she has worked in architecture offices in Utrecht and Arctic Norway.

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