Pieter van Wesemael is a partner in urban design, strategic area development and spatial policy with the Inbo consultancy in Amsterdam and a professor of architectural design and urban culture at Eindhoven University of Technology. As part of his academic chair programme, he deals with the correlation between changes in societal structures, the development of new programmatic concepts and the genesis of other spatial typologies and strategies. His current focus is on lifestyle housing concepts, multifunctional accommodations and creative factories. At Inbo, work is currently being conducted on such projects as urban-design sectional elaborations for the Zuidas in Amsterdam, spatial-programmatic area developments for Hart van Zuid in Hengelo and future projections for the red-light district in Amsterdam. [last updated in 2008]