Olv Klijn graduated Cum Laude at the faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning of the Technical University of Eindhoven. He started writing articles for several architectural magazines during his career as a student.
As an artist in residence he stayed at the Canadian Banff Centre, where he has done study into the impact on the process of urbanisation at the American west coast.
After that Klijn worked as a junior architect at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam. In 2004 he started to work as a independent architect and founded OK-studio.
