Floris Alkemade

Floris Alkemade is an architect and urban designer and since 2015 the Netherlands Government Architect and the chairman of the Board of Government Advisors. Alkemade advises the Minister of the Interior and the Director-General of the Central Government Real Estate Agency. He monitors and promotes the architectural and urban planning quality of government projects, including the disposal and redevelopment of central government real estate. On his Netherlands Government Architect’s agenda, Floris Alkemade has included the ambition to search for the social value of every design challenge.

Working on projects in the Netherlands and abroad Floris Alkemade has been heading FAA (Floris Alkemade Architect) since 2008. His work with FAA includes large-scale architectural projects in France, such as the transformation and new construction of the 600-m-long Macdonald bonded warehouse in Paris.

After completing his studies with Rem Koolhaas at Delft University of Technology he worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) for 18 years. Floris contributed to major projects and studies around the world, both at the level of architecture and that of urban planning. Among his most famous accomplishments are Euralille, a major development around Lille, France’s new TGV station; the Ruhr Museum in Essen, Germany and the new city centre of Almere in the Netherlands.

As guest professor Alkemade was associated with Ghent University for nine years and he has been lecturing at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam since 2014.