Ellen Sander (1960) graduated in architectural engineering from the Technical University in Delft. She was thhe owner and founder of Sander Architecten BV, an award winning architectural and interior office. The strength of Sander lies in her unconventional approach, and her desire to innovate and push frontiers. Sander works in the Netherlands and abroad. She is wellknow for her work on projects as the Ministery of Defense in The Hague, the Headquaters of Rabobank in Utrecht and a variety of different projects in the last 33 years as an architect. Sander’s motto and the guiding principle behind every project.

“architecture is not a way of building but a way of thinking”,

Whether the project involves the exterior, the interior or a combination of both. The power of her work is the underlying concept, the result of thinking about the essence, the quality of living,working or residing, and to translate this into spatial quality.Designing on the cutting edge, on the boundary.She is fully connected with nature, an intuitive directed person, who loves travelling and adventure, looking for the boundaries in life. One life live it.