Architect and urban designer Anne Loes Nillesen of Rotterdam, The Netherlands, will present a lecture at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, October 17, 2016, in the LSU Design Building Commons (room 104).

Nillesen, author of Amphibious Housing in the Netherlands: Architecture and Urbanism on the Water, founded Defacto Urbanism and Architecture in 2006. Defacto is an award-winning landscape architecture and urban design business that specializes in the delivery of coherent designs and analyses that integrate spatial and technical aspects. The office provides services from strategic development and research to public space design—working on and connecting different scales that reach from interiors to urban environments and from gardens to regional landscapes. An innovative combination of research and design is a key factor in Defacto’s work. Among Defacto’s clients are project developers, housing corporations, national and international governments, as well as private clients. Defacto works in close cooperation with other disciplines and experts in order to come to integral and feasible strategies and designs.

Nillesen completed a master’s degree with honors in architecture and urbanism at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and subsequently studied at the Berlage Institute Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design. She currently teaches and is coordinator of the Delta Interventions Studio, a graduate program for architecture, urbanism, and civil engineering at the faculty of architecture, TU Delft, and she is working on her PhD.