A graduate of Delft University of Technology, she worked with various architecture firms in the Netherlands and was co-founder/owner of Maaskant and Van Velzen architects in Amsterdam. She is a guest teacher at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, chair of the board of Archiprix and member of the board of Europan Netherlands and the Jaap Bakema Foundation. From 2000 to 2006 she was editor of OASE and published, among others, about the relationship between architecture and literature. [last updated in 2010]