Sytse de Maat

Sytse de Maat graduated in 1990 as Master of Science in Architecture at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. After many years in international architecture practice, he focused his work on user-building relations and the phenomenon of informal settlement. His passion is the connectedness of people with their buildings. Since 2010 he is PhD-candidate at EPFL under prof. Pierre Frey, researching the topic ‘Building as a life form in symbiosis with its user’.