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Harmen Peter Daniel (Daniel, later Sandy) van Ginkel, (February 10, 1920 – July 5, 2009) was a Dutch and Canadian architect and urban planner. He was a leading force in the planning efforts surrounding Expo 67.

Van Ginkel studied architecture at the Elckerlyc Academy of Architecture and Applied Art in Lage Vuursche and sociology at Utrecht University. During the Second World War, he was active in the Dutch resistance. After his studies he worked in planning and architectural offices in the Netherlands, Sweden and Ireland and eventually had his own office in Amsterdam. He had several collaborative projects with Aldo van Eyck. As a member of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne he drafted the Doorn Manifesto of the Team 10 architects.

He married a British-born Canadian architect, Blanche Lemco, who he had met at the CIAM congress in Aix-en-Provence in 1953, and at the age of 37 moved with her to Montreal, where he established the design and management firm van Ginkel Associates. He subsequently played a major role in saving Old Montreal from destruction in the early 1960s. As assistant director of the city of Montreal's newly formed planning department, he persuaded authorities to abandon plans for an expressway that would have cut through the old city.

In 2007, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada in recognition for having "brought a greater appreciation of the impact of infrastructure on the character of urban development".

He died in his sleep on 5 July 2009, in a Toronto nursing home.

Blanche Lemco van Ginkel (14 December 1923 – 20 October 2022) was a British-born Canadian architect, city planner, and educator who worked mostly in Montreal and Toronto. She is known for her Modernist designs, as well as for planning Expo 67 and spearheading the preservation of Old Montreal. Lemco van Ginkel was the first woman to head a faculty of architecture in Canada and be elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. She was also the first woman to be awarded a fellowship by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and in 2020, was awarded their highest honour, the RAIC Gold Medal.