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Introduction Arjan van Timmeren

Introduction Arjan van Timmeren. Newly appointed Professor of Environmental Technology & Design. History. Born in Groningen, the Netherlands Studied at TU Delft, best graduate 1994 20 years of working in NL, Italy and Spain, including for Renzo Piano

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Introduction Arjan van Timmeren

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  1. Introduction Arjan van Timmeren Newly appointed Professor of Environmental Technology & Design

  2. History • Born in Groningen, the Netherlands • Studied at TU Delft, best graduate 1994 • 20 years of working in NL, Italy and Spain, including for Renzo Piano • Now back as freshly inaugurated professor

  3. Inaugural speech • 17 april 2013, not yet published • Vision and ambitions

  4. Reciprocity • Corresponding concepts • Fossil fuels and energy • Human beings and the living environment • Urbanism: the city and its surroundings • Better to have a badly designed building in a well designed city than vice versa

  5. Focus on the living environment • 2050: 70% of human population in cities • New emerging problems after that: • Rising sea level • Abundance of raw materials • Flexilibility the solution • Therefore focus of the chair -> resilience

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