Today marks exactly 10 years since I registered myself as an architect with the Chamber of Commerce. While visiting the new building at Hoeve Rosa in Sevenum last week, I took this photo that nicely symbolizes today: ‘reflection and looking through,’ looking back and looking forward.

For the past 10 years I have had the opportunity to work on my projects with enormous satisfaction and pleasure. Both new and remodeling, operating independently or in (construction) teams with highly valued partners and fellow friends.

All projects are unique and yet they share one thing: the fine bond with all my clients. Their wishes, dreams, ambitions and enthusiasm fuel me as an architect in the design process, in which clients/users are always at the center of my attention.

In my view, then, being an architect is inseparable from being of service. Asking questions is important, listening carefully to the answers is essential.

Only then can you work with your client to arrive at a design in which they feel “at home,” not only today, but also in the future. That, too, is sustainable architecture.

With open sights and unlimited enthusiasm, I also face the next 10 years. Of course with the fine projects currently on the drawing board or already in progress. Perhaps also with swapping workplace-at-home for desk space-around-the-corner. As for me, also certainly with all the reliable partners I have had the pleasure of working with in recent years.

And above all with hopefully several new and familiar clients who entrust me with their living and building needs.

I’m looking forward to it!

But first…NOW!