Liesbeth van der Pol (born 20 January 1959) is a Dutch architect. She was

Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands The Chief Government Architect (Dutch: Rijksbouwmeester) is the senior architect for the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM). The Chief Architect's responsibility is to protect and stimulate the architectural quali ...

from 2008 to 2011, the first woman to hold that position. Born in

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, she graduated cum laude from

Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Delft), also known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. As of 2022 it is ranked by QS World University Rankings among ...

in 1988 and set up practice in Amsterdam with Herman Zeinstra in 1989. In 2007, her firm merged with Blue Architects Amsterdam to form Dok Architecten; Van der Pol serves on its board of directors. In 1992, she received the

Charlotte Köhler Prize Charlotte Köhler Prize is a Dutch incentive award given to young talent (under the age of 35) in visual arts and theatre. The prizes, €30,000 each, were established in 1988 in honour of the actress and is annually given by the Prins Bernhard C ...

for architecture and, in 1993, the Rotterdam-Maaskant Prize for young architects. Van der Pol also does many guest lectures at universities and academies and has sat in on numerous juries. She was head of Man and Public Space at the Eindhoven Design Academy.

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