Saline Verhoeven is a landscape architect trained at the Wageningen University and the Technical University of Delft, both in the Netherlands. She has vast experience with urban design and landscape transformations, working with the Municipality of Amsterdam and offices like Vista Landscape Architecture and Urban Design and Palmbout Urban Landscapes. She was involved in regeneration projects such as the NDSM docklands in Amsterdam and the redevelopment of the riverfront and bay of Fukuoka in Japan. And working for the NGO for nature development Stichting Landschap Noord-Holland she was responsible for Amsterdam Wetlands, an innovative plan for peat land restoration and nature development.
After being part of the management team of B+B in Amsterdam she combined working in her own practice S-coop with research at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam and the Faculty of Architecture at TU-Delft. There she focused on regional landscape design, concerning urban design in relation to the Dutch delta and sustainable food systems. The work was published in 2018 in 2 books: “Flourishing Foodscapes” (Valiz) and “IJsselmeergebied, een ruimtelijk perspectief” (VanTilt).
Currently Saline is landscape architect at the Municipality of Rotterdam concerned with greening, climate adaptation and densification of the city centre, and teaches at the Academies of Architecture in Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
*Image by Cees de Jonge.