Jolijn Valk
Jolijn Valk
Jolijn Valk is co-founder and architect-director of Amsterdam-based architecture and design studio Urban Echoes. She graduated from the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture in 2010 on a ‘Living bridge’. After working for offices as SeARCH and studioninedots, she founded Urban Echoes in 2013.
Urban Echoes engages with a wide spectrum of complex challenges, constantly searching for the next level in architecture, art, and urban design and how the spatial interventions echo in its context. The studio emphasizes the place as inspiration for its future and is searching for hidden layers through rethinking and researching.
In 2020, the office started a research (within the context of the influence of pandemics on the cities) on how to restore the balance between human and natural settlement, with focus on the ‘in between space’ and on living materials in urban design.
Next to this, Jolijn is an architect member of aesthetics and quality commissions for Dutch municipalities, participates in several architecture juries, and is a guest lecturer, examiner, and mentor at Dutch architecture schools and academies. Since 2021, she has been chair of the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects, BNA.