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The Living Data Conference was held from 12 to 14 February 2025 at TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment and the Nieuwe Instituut. Hosted by researchers of the faculty’s Department of Architecture, the conference explored the topic of data as a design material and how innovative concepts in data visualisation can inspire architectural design.

On 4 March, Gili Hofland, master's student in Architectural Engineering, received the 2024 Thesis Award from Hoogheemraadschap Delfland. She won 2,000 euros for her thesis ‘Engaging with water’, in which she presents a water-inclusive design for future-proof housing.

On 3 March, in the occasion of Open Education Week 2025, eight TU Delft lecturers nominated by faculty received the award in recognition of their commitment to openly share knowledge and educational resources with the world. From our Faculty, lecturer Mariette Overschie received the Award.

An installation titled ‘Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.’ will be showcased at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition at the Architecture Biennale 2025. The project, titled “VENICE” IN CONVERSATION is an AI-driven seminar uniting diverse thinkers with deep ties to Venice. Involved in this project is Eytan Mann of the Architecture Archives of the Future Group, Architecture Department, alongside Eli Keller (Technion) and Mark Jarzombek (MIT).

With her Master thesis ‘The Impossible Revolution: Pursuing Liberation, Peace, and Spatial Equity in Syria’ Marh Echtai won the second prize at the ‘JC Baak prijzen’ of KHMW. Normally this prize goes to social and legal theses and now a thesis that starts from planning and the built environment has won one of the prizes. The jury stated about her master's thesis: ‘The author has presented her arguments in an unusual but exciting way, which has contributed significantly to the enormously compelling discourse of the thesis.’

Five master’s students Architecture are launching SWEAT., a pop-up sauna along circular design principles. Opening on 20 February at X TU Delft, this clothes-on sauna will operate for three weeks, offering a space for relaxation and joy during the tail end of winter.

Carlo Ratti will be the first guest within AE&T's new Jaap Oosterhoff Visiting Prof programme. He explores how new technologies are changing the way we understand cities, design them and we ultimately live in them. Ratti joins two Building Technology courses this semester and concludes with a public lecture in a BK Talks ‘In conversation with’’.

Investors have been selling rental properties at an increasing rate due to the implementation of some sweeping policy and legislative changes in adjacent policy areas of the housing sector. As an unintended side effect of these legislative changes, around 45% more rental properties were offered for sale in 2024 than in 2023. This expansion of the housing supply for sale resulted in more transactions and more mortgage lending in the second half of 2024. This (temporarily) improved opportunities for first-time buyers.

To what extent has a drastic restructuring policy in Rotterdam displaced low-income residents and contributed to a certain segmentation within the city? Kim van Balken graduated cum laude last year with her research on restructuring policy and densification in old city neighbourhoods within the master's track Urbanism, winning the Jeroen van der Veer Thesis Award.

Carel Weeber, high-profile architect and professor emeritus of architectural design at TU Delft, has passed away at the age of 87.