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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.

DESIGN RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS
LECTURES
EXHIBITIONS
AWARDS
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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
Designing the Unfinished: Integrating Landscape Models of Information, Design, and Fabrication
February 2022 PUBLIC LECTURE
Symposium “Instruments of Change“
Weizman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Events - EMLab
Dynamic Design and Production for Dynamic Environments
January 2022 LECTURE
Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture and Digital Fabrication, ETH Zurich
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ROBOTIC LANDSCAPES—Examples from the Design Research Studios
November 2021 LECTURE
With Jésus Medina from Gramazio Kohler Research, given at Architecture and Urban Design, UCLA
Dynamic Landscape Topologies
September 2021 LECTURE
Seminar Course Landscape Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
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Ilmar Hurkxkens
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