Florentine-Amelie Rost is an architect, educator and researcher. The central aspect of her practice and academic work evolves around “city and water” on various architectural and urban scales.

Together with her office partner Jörg Niderehe, she founded the architectural office Rost.Niderehe Architekten I Ingenieure in Hamburg (Germany) in 2008, after winning the design competition Houseboats on the Eilbekkanal. Upon completion, their first house boat received the AIT- Living Application Award 2013 and was shortlisted by the German wood construction award Deutscher Holzbaupreis 2011. During the last ten years Rost.Niderehe have built multiple floating residences and offices in Hamburg and have been involved in the development of a floating settlement on the Jinhai-Lake, near Beijing (China).

From 2011 to 2014, Florentine-Amelie Rost taught urban design and interdisciplinary design projects at the HafenCity University in Hamburg, where she was also a research associate in the Department of Urban Design and Architecture from 2014 to 2017. As part of her doctoral thesis she currently examines how new demands affect the meaning and further development of inner-ctiy water surfaces.