Matthijs Bouw is the Dutch founder of One Architecture and Urbanism (ONE), an award-winning Amsterdam and New York-based firm. ONE is a global leader in the use of design to conceive and advance resilience and waterfront masterplanning projects, combining infrastructure design with nature-based solution projects to create exceptional places. He directs the Urban Resilience Certificate Program at the Weitzman School of Design, where he is a Professor of Practice, the McHarg Center fellow for Risk and Resilience and a fellow at the Institute of Urban Research. Bouw successfully led or co-led design teams for Rebuild by Design, the Resilient Bay Area Challenge, Water as Leverage (Semarang) and Vancouver’s Sea2City, demonstrating a unique ability to leverage design as a central tool for navigating complex challenges and for early project identification. Many of these designs are now being implemented by him and his team, such as the multiple projects for Manhattan’s coastal resilience. His pioneering work has led to many follow-up projects, and has inspired governments, not-for-profits organizations, IFIs, and developers to re-imagine how to develop infrastructure such that it can be more community- centered, be multi-functional, and make better use of nature-based solutions. He is currently the lead designer of the Brooklyn Marine Terminal Masterplan in New York City, a 130-acre waterfront site where the maritime activities are re-envisioned and consolidated as a sustainable urban port, optimizing the 1-mile stretch of shoreline for significant adjacent mixed- use development. He is the co-editor of Building with Nature: Creating, Implementing and Scaling Nature-based Solutions (nai010publishers, 2020). In 2022, his book Managing the Climate Crisis: Designing and Building for Floods, Heat, Drought, and Wildfire (co-authored with Jonathan Barnett) was published by Island Press.

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