Berend Strijland is an architect and partner at NLÉ. Since joining NLÉ in 2012, he has been involved in several architecture and design projects such as the Serpentine Summer House 2016, Bloomsbury Waterfront Development, ROCK – Chicago Lakefront Kiosk, Bonny Kingdom Master plan and the acclaimed Makoko Floating School in Lagos, Nigeria as well as the later prototypes in Venice, Bruges, Chengdu and Mindelo. Strijland graduated from the Technical University Delft Architecture and Building Engineering, after gaining professional experience at an urban design firm in the Netherlands and studied at the UIC Chicago School of Architecture.