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Ilmar Hurkxkens is head of the Geographic Design cluster at Boskalis and lecturer at the Section Landscape Architecture, Departement of Urbanism at the Delft University of Technology. His work focuses on the form and processes of natural granular materials using advanced surveying, modelling, and fabrication techniques. After graduating in architecture with an honourable mention from Delft University of Technology, he worked at the Chair of Landscape Architecture of Professor Christophe Girot, ETH Zurich, where he was DesignLab coordinator and member of the Landscape Visualization and Modeling Lab. He received the Young Researcher Award from the Volkswagen Foundation in 2013 and the Digital Culture Work Grant from the Migros Culture Percentage with Ungenau Robotics in 2018. He is co-founder of LANDSKIP, a laboratory centred on the production and deployment of new technologies for landscape transformation. In 2020 he was nominated for the ETH Medal for his dissertation “Robotic Landscapes” at the NCCR Digital Fabrication after which he completed a postdoc at Gramazio Kohler Research. Part of his doctoral research is published in the publication “Robotic Landscapes: Designing the Unfinished” by Park Books in Zurich 2022.

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Scientific Merit Award
May 2023 AWARD
James Melsom, Ilmar Hurkxkens
By the Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture for the article
“Eroding Terrains: Developing Computational Design Tools for Interactive Site Erosion”
Eroding Terrains: Developing Computational Design Tools for Interactive Site Erosion
May 2023 PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE
James Melsom, Ilmar Hurkxkens
In: JoDLA. Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture
doi:10.14627/537740030
Far from Firm: Soil Driven Design and Construction
March 2023 LECTURE
Master of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building , University of Sydney UTS
Terrain Moves: Dynamic Design and Robotic Construction in Landscape Architecture
February 2023 LECTURE
ESALA Landscape Seminar Series, Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), The University of Edinburgh
Landscape Seminar Series: Ilmar Hurkxkens | Edinburgh College of Art
Ground-Bound: Dike Topotypes from the Netherlands
September 2022 LECTURE
The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design, Delft University of Technology
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Ilmar Hurkxkens
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