Floris Alkemade is a Dutch architect and urban designer. He combines his work with teaching, lecturing, and being part of various professional juries. Themes such as repurposing space and urban development are important aspects of his work. Alkemade graduated as an architectural engineer from the Delft University of Technology. After his studies, he worked for eighteen years at Rem Koolhaas’ architecture firm OMA, the last eight years of which as a partner. In 2008, he started his own firm, FAA (Floris Alkemade Architects). Alkemade’s architecture and urban planning stands out for his innovative and creative approach and attention to infrastructure and logistics. Between 2015 and 2021, he served as the Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands, providing solicited and unsolicited independent advice to the Dutch central government on societal challenges and spatial quality. In 2018, he was one of the curators of The Missing Link, the eighth edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. In the same year, he was elected Architect Of The Year by the Dutch platform Architectenweb, partly due to his search for new ways to house refugees.  Alkemade was awarded the Rotterdam-Maaskant Prize (2022), a prestigious award for his distinctive work in the field of architecture. The Jury praised ‘his great imagination and the ways in which he connects societal issues such as climate change to human conditions’.