Eva Pfannes is Director of Ooze Architects based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She won the Holcim Awards 2017 Bronze for Latin America for Urban Circulatory System in Brazil. The project was praised by the Awards jury for its detailed analysis of water flows as an urban “circulatory system” running through the favela.

She also presented “Creating places to restore our relationship with nature” in Changing paradigms: Materials for a world not yet built at the 6th Holcim Forum 2019.

She co-founded Ooze Architects with Sylvain Hartenberg in 2003. She practiced architecture at Maxwan, Rotterdam (1997-2001), Zaha Hadid, London (2001-02) and Studio Makkink Bey, Rotterdam (2004-06).

Eva Pfannes studied at the Stuttgart State Academy for Art & Design and at The Bartlett School of Architecture – University College London (UCL). She was tutor and guest critic at the North London Polytechnic, the Art Academy in Stuttgart, and taught Public Space at the Eindhoven Design Academy. In 2015 she was Practitioner in Residence at Central Saint Martins – University of the Arts London (UAL).

She won the Dutch Basis Prix de Rome for Architecture (2006) and the British Landscape Institute Award for the best “Design for a Temporary Landscape” with the King’s Cross Pond Club. She has been a jury member for the Rotterdam Architecture Prize (2019) and the Blauwe Kamer Yearbook of Urbanism & Landscape Architecture (2019).