Dr. Hielkje Zijlstra MSc PhD (The Netherlands, Leeuwarden, 1962)
1987 graduated: MSc Architecture, Delft University of Technology (TUD).
1987-2001: practicing architect.
2001-2006: PhD in Architectural History & Building Technology (TUD): Building in the Netherlands 1940-1970.
From 2006: Associate Professor for: Heritage & Design _ Faculty of Architecture Leads the research group ‘Heritage & Design’, supervises PhD students and joins the education programme. From 2015: section leader Heritage & Architecture.
Tasks: Docomomo-NL, Expert Committee Urban Development COST, Reviewer European Science Foundation (ESF), member of the board of studies (Faculty of Architecture TUD), guest Professor at the Kyoto University of Technology.
Some research projects: Rietveld’s Universe, Schools in Heritage, Strijp-S, Sloterhof, RGD buildings Delft, Kyoto Design Lab: Culture is in the Details.
Some education projects: Fotress Ellewoutsdijk, Levortofo park Moscow, Rietveld Academy of Art Amsterdam, Hilton Rotterdam, Kyoto Machiya, Lavrion Greece.
 
My motto: create the opportunities for young people to excel.
 
Some publications:
 -'Analysing Buildings from Context to Detail in time – ABCDº  research method’, IOS Press & Delft University Press Amsterdam 2009.
-‘Rietveld Originals, handle with care!’, SABE’09 3rd CIB International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Environments, June 2009 Delft.
-'Analysing Buildings from Context to Detail in time - ABCD research method. Provincial Library Leeuwarden', in: X. Gu en X. Song (ed.), Structural Analysis of Historic Constructions, Advanced Materials Research, Vols. 133-134,Trans Tech Publications Zürich Switzerland 2010, pp. 283-288.
-‘®MIT Education’, in: The present and future of preservation of Modern Architecture, Kyoto Institute of Technology, 2012, pp 97-107.
-‘Jeruzalem’s way to eternity’ in: ERIC 2013, Energy Efficient Restoration International Conference, 19 September 2013.
-‘Jeruzalem Amsterdam. Restaureren versus renoveren’, KNOB Bulletin, 1(2013), 34-50.