Martin Knuijt is one of the founders and partners of OKRA, a prominent landscape architecture and urban planning office in the Netherlands. He is mostly active as designer in urban and landscape development projects on a wide range of design assignments. These vary from abstract plans and long-term visions to detailed designs for spatial organisation. Martin worked on ‘Amsterdam IJ-waterfront and ‘Metropolitan Zone Copenhagen’. Recent projects as a lead designer are amongst others‘ London Croydon Chrysalis, ‘Vision Public Space Rotterdam city centre’ and ‘Re-Think Athens’ Within his work, themes like connected city, vibrant city, healthy city and attractive city are all interrelated with social, economical and ecological sustainability. He is author of serveral publications on landscape and urban planning, published in leading European magazines. In these publications he argues that within the cities the fundament for change lies in public realm; promoting healthy urban environment and creating efficient transportation systems, connected to the urban network of neighbourhoods and public spaces. Several lectures, workshops and lectures testify of his involvement on the field of landscape architecture and urban planning. He was guest teacher at TU Eindhoven, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht and at Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam, jury member of Archiprix01, Jaarboek Stedenbouw en Landschapsarchitectuur and commissie OOR. He tutored international workshops, amongst others Elasa in Versailles, Herbstseminar Neukloster, and at Mimar Sinan Universiti in Istanbul. Martin Knuijt was keynote speaker at the IFLA congress in Calgary, the CCCB Biennale in Barcelona, and the EFLA congress in Prague, at the 75 anniversary of TU Berlin and at Tongji University in Shanghai. He is honorable member of the Russian landscape Federation. At present Martin Knuijt is supervisor public space for Rotterdam city centre.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT AND FOUNDER/PARTNERborn 1966

MSC. MARTIN KNUIJT

EDUCATION

1984-1991 Wageningen University, Wageningen. Master of Science in Landscape Architecture Major: urban landscape architecture

LANGUAGES Dutch – native language English - good French - good German - good

WORK EXPERIENCE

1994-present OKRA landscape architects, landscape architect and founder/partner1990-1993 Rotterdam City Council, The Department for Urban Planning and Housing (DS+V): Designer public space.

LECTURES

2014 Athens, Greece, Rethink-Athens – towards a new city center2014 London UK, Metropolitan University, Urban transformations2014 Hannover, Germany, “Climate Adaptation by Urban Design” for Holland Smart City House” of the “Metropolitan Solutions” fair / Hannover Messe 2013 Athens, Greece, Re-think Athens – one step beyond2013 Arnhem, Nederland, book presentation city climate, changes in the city climate2013 Dortmund, Duitsland, Architektenkammer – Begruenen nicht bauen2013 Athene, Griekenland, Re-think Athens – one step beyond

CURRICULUM VITAE

OKRA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS BV OUDEGRACHT 23 | 3511 AB UTRECHTTHE NETHERLANDS | WWW.OKRA.NL

Client: Onassis Foundation.Year: 2012 - 2015

The city centre of Athens will be transformed into a green network, and Panepistimiou will be the central green spine, providing shade and shelter. The regeneration of the city centre will strongly contribute to the change of Athens. It will improve the environment of the city plus activating the area economically.

Role: project manager, supervisor

Client: Municipality of RotterdamYear: 2007-2013

Access to the centre is re-organized: a park-and-walk system at the edge of the centre, coupled to good pedestrian routes, ensures optimum ac-cessibility. In turn, the old, long lines of the city form valuable connections between cores and poles in the city centre. Injecting a new layer of green spaces transforms the daily living environment; the resulting intensifica-tion offers opportunities for urban stratification.

Role: For this project Martin Knuijt has been the lead project architect. After creating the vision he was asked to be the design supervisor for the regeneration of Rotterdam City Centre throughout the whole process. His role was and still is to lead the creative team towards an innovative public realm design.

Client: London Borough of Croydon,Year: 2009-present

Wellesley Road and Park Lane will be transformed into a green spine of Croydon, having many east west at-grade crossings. The pedestrian zones are activated by transformation of the now dull plinths into active program-mes and the connection to a diversity of new green (semi) public spaces in the adjacent blocks. OKRA developed a an urban vision, public space vision, sustainable vision as well as a early wins strategy and design of partial areas and furniture.

Role: Martin Knuijt is the lead project architect. His role is to lead the creative team towards an innovative public realm design and to convince all of the conventional stakeholders to go along with these major changes

Client: Municipality of Sluis Year: 2013 - present

Unlike common seaside boulevards, the existing central axis, the Bou-levard de Wielingen does not have direct views to the water. The trans-formation of boulevard to a shared surface with defined places, clear entrances, added program and improved visual and physical connections to the dunes, will embed it in its surroundings.

Role: project manager, main designer

PROJECTS

CITY CENTER – ATHENS (GR)

VISION FOR PUBLIC SPACE - ROTTERDAM CITY CENTRE (NL)

MARINA AND DUNE BOULEVARD DE WIELINGEN - CADZAND – BAD (NL)

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VISION FOR PUBLIC SPACE - ROTTERDAM CITY CENTRE (NL)

WELLESLEY ROAD AND PARK LANE - LONDON CROYDON (UK)

PUBLICATIONS

Topos Top-adressen Bahnhofsplatz / Best address in town: Station Square.Topos, 1998-24, p16-22.

Topos Zutphen: Atmosphare schaffen durch Kontraste / Zutphen: Creating an Atmosphere through contrasts. Topos, 2000-32.

Jardins insurges Zutphen City Center / CCCB.

Jaarboek Landsch Versleten Zutphense binnenstad herademt door opknapbeurt Stichting Jaarboek en Stedenbouw in Nederland 97-99.

Jaarboek Landsch Stationsomgeving Enschede Stichting Jaarboek en Stedenbouw in Ne-derland 95-97.

Paper Water culture, Water resource, saving an uses in architecture and environ-ment, Water in historic city centres has Mechelen as its proving ground.

WHICC Jaap Huisman et al, Water in historic city centers; Breda, Chester, Gent, s-Hertogenbosch, Limerick, Mechelen, Van Kemenade, 2007.

On site European Selection of most interesting landscape architecture projects Melaan

Mechelen, Belgium, 2009.

PROJECTLIST

2014 MOSKOU – VOROBIEVI PARK (RU) park design2013 HIGHWAY INTEGRATION A1A6 (NL) integration of the new motorway A1/

A6 Diemen – Almere Havendreef, a part of the road expansion Schiphol-Amsterdam-Almere.

2013 GRANDE SYNTHE - ECO QUARTIER (FR) landscape plan for sustainable neighborhood of 500 homes in existing forest

2012 MARINAPARK - CORK (IR) design for a park focussed on nature and sport

2011 CITY EDGES UTRECHT (NL) Study on the urban fringe areas in the pro-vince of Utrecht

2008-2011 BELLAMYPARK - VLISSINGEN (NL). Park and square along the coast of Vlis-singen. In the heart of the old town of Vlissingen the main square is redesig-ned. This design is an interpretation of the former harbour.

2009 MOLENWATERPARK – MIDDELBURG (NL). Design of a new city park with a theater at the edge of the historic citycenter of Middelburg.

HEALTH & SAFETY

In the Netherlands the health & safety responsibility lies with external specialist companies for the full duration of the project. OKRA has worked closely with specialist health & safety companies such as ArboDuo, Maetis and MKB and Martin is knowledgeable in the design risk principles of health & safety. During the construction phase of the project the main contractor is responsible for the health & safety of the works and site until completion of the works. OKRA has a proven track record of creating and realising high quality safe designs as can be seen from the extensive list of project in the Netherlands and internationally..

CURRICULUM VITAE MSC. MARTIN KNUIJT