Ana Conceição, PhD researcher Architecture. Degrees from Technical University of Lisbon (1999, architect by the Faculty of Architecture; 2007, MSc in Urbanism and Territory management by Instituto Superior Técnico). Works as an architect independently and in collaboration, namely with Prof. Arch. Gonçalo Byrne.

Birgit Jürgenhake studied architecture at the University of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany, during which she enjoyed external traineeships in Finland and the Netherlands. She worked in various architectural offices on housing projects and public buildings, among others WGK Karlsruhe, Mecanoo, Erick van Egeraat, and KCAP.
In 2001 Birgit Jürgenhake founded her own company. Since 2004, she is assistant professor with the chair of architecture and dwelling. She is currently working on her PhD research ‘Dwelling from the inside to the outside – from private to the public’ which focuses on the facade as the filter between the inside and the outside and as the face to the public realm.

Birgitte Louise Hansen is trained as an architect. She works on research and design projects in The Netherlands and abroad. At the moment she is working on a research project about healthcare architecture for the chair 'Architectural Design–Interiors’ at The Technical University in Delft. She writes, speaks and publishes on subjects related to healthcare architecture on a regular basis and was the editor of the publication ‘Beyond Clinical Buildings’ (2008).

Colette Niemeijer, PhD researcher Architecture.

Dick van Gameren is professor of Architecture and Dwelling since 2006. Currently, he is also chair of the Architecture Department. He graduated from TU Delft in 1988. After partnerships with Bjarne Mastenbroek and De Architectengroep, he now runs his own architecture firm Dick van Gameren Architecten, Amsterdam. He has been awarded various prestigious awards among which are the 2007 Aga Kahn Award for the Dutch Embassy in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, and a first prize in the second Europan competition, 1991.
He is the author of ‘Revisies van de Ruimte / Revisions of Space’ (010 publishers, 2005). He is an editor of DASH, Delft Architectural Studies on Housing (NAi publishers) and was an editor of the magazine Forum (1997-2001). He has taught at various institutes, among other the Berlage Institute and the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture.

Dirk van den Heuvel graduated as an architect from TU Delft, 1994. He is associate professor with the chair. His expertise is in the field of postwar modern architecture. Together with Max Risselada he organised two exhibitions and publications: ‘Team 10 – In Search of a Utopia of the Present’ (NAi Publishers, 2005) and ‘Alison and Peter Smithson – from the House of the Future to a house of today’ (010 Publishers, 2004). Together with Madeleine Steigenga and Jaap van Triest he authored ‘Lessons: Tupker / Risselada. A Double Portrait of Dutch Architectural Education’ (SUN Publishers, 2003).
He is an editor of DASH (NAi publishers) and the on-line journal Footprint. He was also an editor of the journal OASE (1993-1999). He publishes in various magazines and on-line media, among which ArchiNed and PIN-UP magazine. He has worked as an architect for the offices of Neutelings Riedijk Architecten and De Nijl Architecten.

Eireen Schreurs (1968) studied at the TUDelft and is an architect based in Rotterdam. With Like Bijlsma she founded SUB office. Together they do small scale projects and research. From 1997 to 2001 she was a member of the editorial board of OASE.

Esther Gramsbergen, assistant professor Architecture. Degree in architecture from TU Delft (ir.). Worked as an architect in various offices. Teaching and researching at the TU Delft since 1999. Co-author of the Zakboek voor de woonomgeving (2001). Further publications on urban morphology of Amsterdam and Dordrecht. Preparing PhD dissertation, participating in Int. PhD seminars Villard d’Honnecourt, Venice.

Filip Geerts graduated cum laude from the Delft University of Technology in 2001, with an airport as final thesis design. Since then, he has been associated with UFO-architecten, collaborating with S.U.Barbieri on various projects and competitions, including Wiener & Co., an apartment project in Amsterdam in co-operation with Giorgio Grassi. Previous practical architectural work includes internships at STUDIO, architecture and interior architecture, Amsterdam (September - December 2000) and Cunningham Architects in Dallas (TX), USA (1999). During his student-years he was one of the organisers of the manifestations Indesem1998 in Delft and EASA 20(00) in Antwerp/Rotterdam. He has been working at the faculty of Architecture (TU Delft) since January 2002, at first as a research fellow, later as assistant professor, teaching studio and seminars and he is intensely involved with the development and co-ordination of undergraduate and graduate programmes. He also taught at the Academie van Bouwkunst, Amsterdam. He initiated his Phd research ‘Architecture/Territory’ in 2003 under prof. S.Umberto Barbieri.

François Claessens, associate professor Architectural Theory, collaborates with the chair of Building Typologies. Degrees in architecture and philosophy from TU Delft (ir.) and UvA Amsterdam (drs.), PhD from TU Delft: The city as an architectural construction: The architectural discourse on the city (Germany 1871-1914), 2005. He worked as an architect in various offices. Teaching and research TU Delft from 1995 until 2008. Since aug. 2008 Head of the Department of Strategy and Policy of the Housing Association De Key, Amsterdam. He is the author of several publications on the architectural discourse of the city. Former editor of OASE and editor of OverHolland, a book series on Architectural Studies for the Dutch City, since 2004.

Frederique van Andel graduated in both architecture and urban planning at TU Delft in 1997. She worked for the architectural firms of Mecanoo and DP6 Architectuurstudio (1997-2006). In 1999 she lived and worked in Barcelona. In 2006 she started working as a researcher at TU Delft with the chair of Architecture and Dwelling. In 2010 she published a research on housing, parking and the living environment (Zakboek parkeren voor de woonomgeving (Rotterdam: Uitgeverij 010, 2010). She’s currently doing research on Housing Exhibitions and is also an editor of DASH (Nai Publishers). Participant in project: AP-1. The Building: Types and Models

Managing director, researcher and consultant at V&L Consultants in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is involved in research and consultancy in the field of sustainable and energy-efficient building and living, the sustainable development of the built environment and trends in environmentally-aware innovations in housing, buildings and the construction industry. He is editor of the building journal bouwIQ (formerly Duurzaam / Puur Bouwen) and a research associate in Environmental Design at Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture.

Hans Teerds studied Architecture and Urbanism at the Delft University of Technology. He graduated in 2003 with a proposal for an intervention in the environment, urban position and buildings of the Suikerfabriek in Halfweg, the Netherlands. After graduation, he was invited to take part in the ‘'Meesterproef 03'’, which was a Masterclass organised by the Dutch and Flemish ‘'rijksbouwmeesters'. He works currently as an independent architect and urban designer in Amsterdam on a wide range of projects. 

Harald Mooij graduated at TU Delft in 2003. He is an architect in Amsterdam.
Together with Bernard Leupen he published the book ‘Het Ontwerpen van Woningen’ (NAi Publishers, 2008). He writes for various national and international journals and is editor of DASH (NAi Publishers).
Harald Mooij was an assistant of Alexander Tzonis at the Delft Design Knowledge Systems Research Center. Part of his current research work concerns the development of a database for housing typologies.

Henk Engel, associate professor Architecture. Degree in architecture from TU Delft (ir.) Partner De Nijl Architecten since 1980. Teaching and research TU Delft since 1971. Publications on Modern Architecture and Urban Studies. Editor of OverHolland, Architectural Studies for the Dutch City, since 2004. Preparing PhD dissertation.

Henri van Bennekom (1964) graduated cum laude from TU Delft faculty of Architecture, and graduated from the Amsterdamse Technische Hogeschool. He has worked primarily as a designer/project leader on large public buildings, such as the headquarters of ‘De Nederlandsche Bank’ in Amsterdam, The European Patent Office in The Hague (at A+D+P Architecten), the Netherlands Forensic Institute in the Hague (with Claus en Kaan Architecten), and the Courts of Justice in Zwolle (for the Governmental Building Agency). Henri van Bennekom is founding partner of the architectural firm ‘VBVP Architecten’, mainly designing private residences in The Netherlands and The United States. Together with Kees Kaan he is responsible for the Chair of Materialisation.

Henriette Bier's expertise is in computer-based systems and methods employed in architecture. After graduating in architecture (1998) from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, Henriette Bier has worked with Morphosis (1999-2001) on internationally relevant projects in the US and Europe. She has taught computer-based architectural design (2002-2003) at Universities in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands and implemented her PhD research at TU Delft (2004-2008). Her research focuses on analysis and critical assessment of digital technologies in architecture and advancement of digitally-driven architecture through procedural- and object-oriented studies.

Iskandar Pané, researcher Architectural Analyses. Degree in architecture from TU Delft (ir.). Parttime researcher TU Delft since 2001. Architect at the office De Nijl Architecten from 2001 until 2006, and since 2006 at KAW Architecten en adviseurs.

Jack Breen is associate professor and head of the Form and Modelling Studies group at the Delft faculty of Architecture.
After graduating cum laude at the Delft Faculty of Architecture in 1980 he has worked extensively in practice (including the office of Breen & Breen architects in Delft, The Netherlands) before becoming a Form Studies lecturer and researcher.
He has published contributions in various journals, conference proceedings and books (notably: the education-based series De Tafel, De Bank, De Brug and De Wand, with Form Studies colleague Bernard Olsthoorn) and is coordinator of the BSC5 Minor application House of the Future (Form & Modelling Studies, in collaboration with Architecture / Dwellings). 

Jorge Mejia had his education as an Architect at the Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia) where he graduated in 1996. He holds a Master in History and Theory of Art and Architecture (2002) as well as a Master degree in Architecture (2008), both from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

His Teaching includes Architectural Theory, History of Architecture and Design Studio at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia since February 2005, where he became Profesor Catedratico Asociado in 2007.

Aside from receiving a Honorary Mention from the Colombian National Natural Park System - Ministry of the Environment in 1998, and a Colfuturo Scholarship in 2009, he is the author of Enrique Triana: Obras y Proyectos (Bogotá: Planeta, 2006) and Coauthor of Vivienda Moderna en Colombia (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2004)  and XX Bienal Colombiana de Arquitectura (Bogotá: Sociedad Colombiana de Arquitectos, 2006).

His research interests include architectural form, modern architecture, contemporary conditions and architectural principles and procedures.

Julien Merle (1979) was born in France, graduated Architecte D.P.L.G at the ENSACF and received a master degree in Philosophy from the BPUCF. He worked for several offices in the Netherlands, including Karres en Brands Landscape architects, Maxwan, Bureau B+B, UN Studio, Dick Van Gameren and Mecanoo. He is currently working on a doctoral research on Georges Bataille’s Formless as a critical tool for assessing contemporary architecture.

Jurjen Zeinstra (1961) studied at the Faculty of Architecture TU Delft. Together with Mikel van Gelderen he founded Zeinstra van Gelderen architecten. In cooperation with Ira Koers they realized projects like the Tumble House (1998) and housing in Almere (2000) and IJburg (2006) and with Mark Pimlott restaurant Puck Pip in Den Haag (2007). Jurjen Zeinstra works as an Assistant Professor of Architectural Design / Interiors TU Delft and has been an editor of both OASE and Forum and lectured at different Academies of Architecture. He is currently preparing a publication on Amsterdam West.

Karin Theunissen graduated as an architect at TU Delft in 1986. Together with Arjan Hebly she founded the architecture office Hebly Theunissen in Delft. Research publication by the office are ‘Bouwen in de Stad’, 1989, and ‘Bouwen in de Wederopbouwstad’, 2005.
Karin Theunissen is currently preparing a doctoral thesis on the work of Venturi Scott Brown and Associates, to be completed in 2009.
She was guest editor of the first issue of DASH, ‘New Open Space in Housing Ensembles’ (NAi Publishers, 2009). She contributed articles to various magazines, such as de Architect and Archis.

Kathleen de Bodt, PhD researcher Architecture.

From 1992 to 2008, Kees Duijvestein was Professor of Environmental Design in the Department of Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture. He is currently a guest academic at the Chair of Smart Architecture conducting research into the spatial quality of buildings in relation to social, economic and environmental aspects. His work addresses the issue of creating pleasant, affordable and environmentally-friendly housing. He devises structures and produces design sketches for construction projects.

As an academic, he firmly believes in the importance of integrating the general global discussion on sustainability into the Faculty’s work. His works embraces the entire spectrum of the theme sustainable building; from energy, waste and material use, and affordability to water and mobility, economic transparency, quality of life, social cohesion and health.

In addition to his activities within the Faculty, Prof. Duijvestein was also the founder and director (until 2005) of BOOM-Duijvestein BV, Office for Environmental Research and Design, which was set up in 1970. He currently holds the post of strategic advisor for Solidago in The Hague. Through his work with BOOM, Prof. Duijvestein became involved in the plans for the ecological residential areas of Ecodus in Delft and Ecolonia in Alphen aan den Rijn. He is regularly invited to serve on advisory boards, panels and quality control teams for large-scale housing projects such as Nieuwland and Vathorst in Amersfoort and the GWL terrain (former municipal water board terrain) in Amsterdam. He is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Triodos Bank Real Estate Fund and Chairman of the Board of The Hague Environmental Centre.

He is also currently working with thirty other specialists on the manual: 4 x P, People, Planet, Profit Project, the principles and practices of Sustainable Building.

Kees Kaan (1961) Studied architecture at Delft University of Technology. As founding partner of the firm Claus en Kaan Architecten, he has built up an international range of projects among which the Netherlands Forensic Institute in The Hague a and the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Maputo, Mozambique are well known. Kees Kaan takes part in many commissions: He was a member of the Quality Team Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam and a teacher at the Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam/Rotterdam from 1994 to 1998. He is a member of the professional Advisory Group of the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture in Aberdeen and is now professor at the Delft University of Technology. Kees Kaan is a board member of the Architecture Institute Rotterdam (AIR foundation) and has been a juror for many international architectural competitions. He lectures in cities all over the world, under which Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, Madrid, Mexico City, Paris, Vienna and Tokyo.

Kim Zweerink, PhD researcher Architectural and Urban History. Degrees: History, Un. Rotterdam, specialization: history of pre-industrial societies; Art History, VU Amsterdam (drs. 2003), specialisation: Architectural History. 2002-2007 dS+V, Gemeente Rotterdam, Office Monuments. Publications on architecture and townplanning in Rotterdam. Editor of Rotterdams Jaarboekje and Tijdschrift Holland. Research and Teaching TU Delft since dec. 2007.

Klaske Havik is assistant professor at Delft University of Technology. She studied architecture in Delft and Helsinki, and literary writing in Amsterdam. She writes regularly for various magazines in the Netherlands and Nordic countries and is editor of the Dutch-Belgian peer reviewed architecture journal OASE. Her architectural and written work combines an experiental reading of the city with an academic and theoretical approach.  As an architect and critic, she has been involved in a number of harbour redevelopment projects in Amsterdam, The Hague, Helsinki and Tallinn.  At Delft University of Technology, department of Public Building, she currently teaches the master diploma studio Public Realm alongside master courses in architectural theory and literature. Recently, she co-edited the anthology Architectural Positions: Architecture, Modernity and the Public Sphere, SUN Publishers 2009. Her current PhD research, entitled Writing Place. Scriptive explorations in architectural research and design, aims at developing a literary approach to  architecture and urban regeneration.

Leen van Duin (1944) is an architect and since 1993 professor of Architectural Design at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology. He researches and teaches design methods and the typology of buildings. From 1979 till 1993 he was a member of De Nijl Architecten, an architect’s office that he co-founded. Recently he published Hundred Years of Dutch Architecture, 1990-2000, Amsterdam (SUN) 2003. Van Duin occupies several public and managerial positions. At the moment he is chairman of the Dutch state exam committee for architecture, member of the Council of the EAAE (European Association for Architectural Education) and member of the Advisory Committee on Education and Training in the field of Architecture of the European Commission.

Marc Schoonderbeek is the coordinator of the research group ‘Border Conditions’ and is currently working on a doctoral thesis within this group, on the relationship between architectural theory, representation and design. After graduating from the TU Eindhoven, he has practiced architecture in the Netherlands, Germany (Studio Libeskind (pre-911)) and Israel. In 1998, he founded with Pnina Avidar '12PM-Architecture', an Amsterdam-based firm for architecture and urban design. In the work of 12PM, the rationality of a theoretical position is mixed with the intuition of a vivid architectural practice through the mapping and tracing of the hidden layers of each project. At present, he is editor of Footprint, lectures at a regular basis at several architecture institutes, and is a regular contributor to architectural magazines. In January 2004, he co-founded 66EAST-Centre for Urban Culture in Amsterdam and published, in 2008, the book ´Houses in Transformation: interventions in European gentrification´ together with JJ Berg, T Kaminer, and J Zonneveld.

Mark Pimlott (Montréal, 1958) is an artist and designer. Public art works include Guinguette, Birmingham (2000); La scala, Aberystwyth (2003); World, London (2002-10). Designs for interiors include Neckinger Mills, London (1988), Red House, London (1999-present) and restuarant Puck/Pip, Den Haag (with Zeinstra van Gelderen architecten 2007). He has taught architecture and visual arts since 1986, and was Professor in relation to practice in Architecture (Interior) at TU Delft 2002-2005.

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2012   'Interiority complex: 'Mark Pimlott, interviewed by Arjen Oosterman and     Brendan Cormier, Volume 33, in The Interior (Rotterdam: Stichting Archis): pp 39-43 Article Website

2012   “Natural Antagonism: notes on colour or architecture” in Painting with Architecture in Mind. Alex Landrum and Ed Whitakker, editors (WunderkammerPress: Bath): pp 22-37, 2012.  link

Martijn Stellingwerff graduated with honourable mention at TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture, in 1993. He is an assistant professor at the Form & Modelling Studies group at the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture. From 2001 till 2004 he was also researcher at the Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst, Sint-Lucas Architecture in Brussels. At that time he was involved in several EU and locally funded projects: PICT, DYNAMO, AVOCAAD, {ACCOLADE}, USO BUILT. Martijn organised three conferences and participated in several books. He is active in the review committees of the EAEA, Knowing (by) Designing and eCAADe conferences. In 2005, he successfully defended his PhD dissertation on Virtual Context (pdf 6.1Mb). An overview of some of his publications can be found here and here.
Currently Martijn is coordinating the minor on ‘Advanced Prototyping’ in collaboration with the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. He also teaches in the Masters elective course ‘Ornamatics’. Together with his colleagues he established and manages the CAMlab as part of the Modelling Techniques workshop. 

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Mechthild Stuhlmacher was born in Germany, studied music and architecture in Germany and the Netherlands, graduated in 1992 and worked at various offices in the Netherlands and the UK from 1992. In 2001 she founded the office Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architecten together with Rien Korteknie. In the work of the Rotterdam based office projects for education, (health-)care and private housing play a central role. The office ambitiously works on the issue of sustainability with its different meanings and connotations and has developed a specific expertise in sustainable structural systems and the use of timber. Recently, Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architecten has established a close working relationship with the Munich based office Hildundk (www.hildundk.de). Jointly both offices work on educational and healthcare projects in Belgium. For many years, Mechthild has been a member of the editorial team of OASE and the the architecture yearbook of Flanders and is involved in various other publication projects. Since 2010 she has been appointed as member of the Rotterdam committee for 'Welstand' and Monuments and the architect's platform Rotterdam (since 2011). She teaches architectural design at Delft University of Technology and has been regularly invited for lectures and workshops in the Netherlands and abroad.
Two projects by the London offices Caruso St John and David Chipperfield. Oase 45: Essential Architecture.

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Merlijn Hurx, PhD researcher Architectural History. Degree in Art History at Utrecht University, where he obtained a Research Master (Cum Laude). He published on various subjects including sixteenth century architecture in Italy, Dutch Classicist town halls in the Dutch Republic and ‘late gothic’ building practise in the Netherlands. Research and teaching at TU Delft since sept. 2006.

Michiel Riedijkgraduated from the Technical University in Delft in 1989. He started his own office with Juliette Bekkering. In 1992 he and Willem Jan Neutelings established Neutelings Riedijk Architects .

After a monographic publication in El Croquis in 1999 they published their second monographic book ‘At Work’ in 2004, which was distributed in a special paperback version around the world in 2006. Projects like the city history Museum MAS in Antwerp, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, the Shipping and Transport College in Rotterdam,  the Walterboscomplex in Apeldoorn, the Minnaert Building in Utrecht and the Sphinxes in Huizen have been published in numerous architectural magazines around the world.

Michiel Riedijk was guest professor in Aachen in 2002. He gave lectures and workshops at universities and museums worldwide among which Beijing, Moscow, Princeton, Los Angeles, Quito and Seattle. In September 2007 he accepted professorship at the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology.

Nelson Mota, graduated in Architecture from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 1998 where he received his MSc in Advanced Studies in Architecture, Territory and Memory in 2006. In 2004 he began lecturing at the University of Coimbra and since 2009, he is based in the Netherlands, where he is currently developing his PhD at the TU Delft, where he is also tutor in the Architecture and Dwelling MSc1 seminars and graduation studio. He was the recipient of the Fernando Távora Prize in 2006 and authored the book “A arquitectura do quotidiano” (The architecture of the everyday) published in 2010 and runner-up in the Iberian FAD Prize 2011. Since 2008 he has been lecturing and delivering papers in several conferences and meetings, chiefly focused on the reconceptualization of modernist principles on housing and identity. On this theme he has published scholarly essays in academic journals. He also contributes writing critical reviews to professional magazines and as a designer and founding member of comoco arquitectos, he develops projects and builds in categories such as housing, hotels, rehabilitation of urban spaces and interior design. 
 

Nicola Marzot obtains his degree in Architecture in Florence, with a thesis on Ferrara’s building history. He has taught as a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture of Firenze, Ferrara and the Faculty of Engineering of Bologna, where in 2000 he obtains his PhD in “Building and territorial engineering”. Since 2004 he is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of Ferrara, teaching Urban and Architecture design. His research activity mainly focus on theory and method of architecture and urban design strategies, in close relation to Urban Morphology and Building Typology.
He has been visiting professor at Hosei University, Faculty of Architecture and Lund University, Faculty of Architecture. Since 2006 he is currently visiting professor at TU Delft Politecnic, as an associate professor. He is going to obtain his second PhD at TU Delft Politechnic in Architectural Design.
Vice director of the international journal Paesaggio Urbano and member of the Editorial Board the international magazines Urban Morphology, Opera/Progetto and Rassegna

He has been member of the organizing committee of the Italian Pavilion, X International Venice Biennale of Architecture, curator Prof. Franco Purini. Since 2005 he is member of the Council of ISUF, International Seminar on Urban Form. Since 2006 he also is Secretary-General of the same Insititution.
Since 2006 he is Head of Urban Planning of Nomisma Spa REAL ESTATE. He runs his own firm PERFORMA A+U. Now he is developing the "Parco delle Stelle" design, the new Bologna Sport city candidated by Italy to host the 2014 International Basketball Championship. He partecipated to several international design competition, resulting also winner and being signaled. In 2007 his team (MVRDV, PERFORMA A+U, Arcadis e Atelier 10) has been selected between the 12 finalist to the International Competition for the New Bologna High Speed System Station

Nikki Brand (1982) studies patterns of urbanization in the Randstad Holland (1200-2000). She studied human geography in Amsterdam, with a special focus on the relationship between heritage and spatial qualities. After graduation she worked on various subjects concerning the history of the landscape. Brand started her PhD research – which is part of the ‘Mapping the Randstad Holland (1200-2000) project’- in December 2007.

Olv Klijn graduated cum laude as an architect at TU Eindhoven, 2001 Together with Eric Frijters he founded the architecture office FABRIC in Amsterdam, 2007. In 2010 he won the prestigious Prix de Rome award for Dutch architects under 35.
He wrote the monograph ‘VMX Agenda’ (010 Publishers, 2007) and together with Joks Janssen he published ‘10 x Den Bosch’ (NAi Publishers, 2008). He is an editor of DASH (NAi Publishers) and writes for various magazines among others for Architectenweb.nl. He worked for the office of OMA and was an artist-in-residence at the Canadian Banff Centre. He also teaches at various Academies of Architecture, Amsterdam, Arnhem and Tilburg.

Oscar Rommens, graduated at the Hoger Architectuur Instituut Sint-Lucas Gent in 1994.
After living in various metropoles (Barcelona, New York , Chicago, Rotterdam) he completed a postgraduate programme Urban Design (Archeworks, Chicago USA, ’95-’97) and worked at several architecture offices. (Douglas Garofalo, USA /  Kas Oosterhuis, NL / Dirk Coopman, Ghent) Currently he is a teacher in the research group ‘Border Conditions’ in the TU Delf and in the PHL Architecture Diepenbeek, master 3 programme.
In 1999 he founded Import Export Architecture (IEA)together with Joris van Reusel. IEA is a network office with its headquarter in Antwerp that operates from various urban biotopes and from the in-between situated public and private opportunities. IEA is not only active as the day-to-day architecture practice, but is also engaged in the development of theoretical concepts, models and prototypes and has participated in various selections for the creation or transformation of furniture, buildings, landscapes or areas.

Otto Diesfeldt, researcher Architectural Analyses. Degree in architecture from TU Delft (ir.). Parttime researcher TU Delft since 2003. Architect at the office De Nijl Architecten from 2004 until 2005, and since 2005 at Dick van Gameren Architecten.

Paul Kuitenbrouwer graduated at TU Delft in 1988. He has extensive practice experience having worked in London for a year, and in the Netherlands for the offices of Wiel Arets (KNSM tower, Amsterdam), buro boosten Rats (Jardin Céramique, Maastricht with Martorell Bohigas Mackay from Barcelona), Geurst & Schulze and SeARCH. He was acting supervisor of Céramique in Maastricht for Jo Coenen. For the Atelier Rijksbouwmeester (the Dutch state architect office) Paul Kuitenbrouwer worked as an advisor on architecture and urbanism (2001-2004).
Before joining the staff of the chair of Architecture and Dwelling, he taught design studios with Public Building and RMIT, TU Delft. His current research is focused on low rise housing in high density configurations for the city of Groningen.

ir. Peter Teeuw PDEng is assistant professor at the faculty of Architecture Delft University of Technology at the chair of SMART Architecture and is architect / advisor sustainable building at KOW X in The Hague.

His specialisation is sustainable development related to architecture and urbanism. He worked many years for the ecological office BEAR Architecten, Gouda and published several books on sustainable building issues.    

Pierijn van der Putt graduated as an architect at TU Delft in 2001.
He worked as an editor for the journal de Architect (2002-2008) before he started teaching at the Faculty of Architecture. He is currently an editor of DASH (NAi Publishers) and writes for various journals.

Roberto Cavallo (1967) is an architect based in Amsterdam; he is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture / Chair Building Typology, Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology. He studied architecture in Naples and in Delft. After his graduation in 1991 he worked for the offices of Cees Dam & Partners (Amsterdam) and Studio di Architettura (Amsterdam) where he became partner in 1996. In 1999 he was the co-founder of Studio-AI in Amsterdam. Since 1996 he teaches and researches at the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology. Among other tasks, he is currently coordinating the MSc3 & MSc4 Hybrid Buildings and he is member of the commission for the admission of International Master Students. In 2008 he successfully defended his PhD with the title ‘Railways in urban context. An architectural discourse’. His scientific publications are ranging from the urban to the architectural project.

Umberto Barbieri graduated at the Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture. He is Professor of Architectural Design at the Delft University of Technology and Visiting Professor at different universities. Editor and collaborator for Opera, Cassabella, Archis, Oase and other magazines. Architect at Studio di Architettura in Amsterdam, designer in cooperation with Aldo Rossi on the BonefantenMuseum in Maastricht (1989) and with Giorgio Grassi on the Wienerblok in Amsterdam (2000). Author of A hundred years of Dutch architecture, 1901-2000, and editor of Dutch translation of the book L’architettura della città (2001) by A. Rossi and La contruzione logica dell’architettura (2000) by G. Grassi.

Sang Lee received his M. Arch. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his appointment at TU Delft, he was engaged in independent design practice in New York. From 2000 until 2003 Sang was Lecturer of Architecture and the coordinator of the US-EU exchange program at the School of Design, the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught advanced research studios as well as core design studios. He also served as a visiting lecturer at the Bauhaus Summer Academy in Rome in 1999, 2000 and 2003, and as a guest critic at Columbia University, Pratt Institute, Temple University, UCLA and Sci-ARC. Sang’s design and research interests emphasize the relationship between architecture, media and performing arts toward a means to assemble, reframe and project spatial and narrative qualities as an organization of experience. At the same time, based on his experience working with William McDonough, Sang has been engaged in sustainable design and previously taught a sustainable deisgn studio at the TU Eindhoven.

In 2007 he co-edited and published a volume of essays and conversations, “The Domestic and the Foreign in Architecture” by 010 Publishers. Currently he is editing a volume entitled “Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture” which explores aesthetics potentials inherent in the consideration of sustainability in architectural design. The book is expected in mid to late 2011.

Sanja Jerkovic, (1977, Labin, Croatia) graduated at the Faculty of Architecture, Venice University IUAV in 2004. Starting 2001 - 2003 she is a Senator of the Student Senate. With the research project ‘Housing in Sarajevo’ in 2000 starts her activity in the Department of architecture at IUAV, where from 2001 till 2004 works as assistant professor at ‘Laboratorio di progettazione urbana e architettonica’. From 2003 works as a freelance in different studios. In the period between 2004 - 2006 she was Responsible for the public competitions at Zagreb Architects’ Society, Croatia. From 2005 / 2006 an Assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Zagreb University. In the same year develops the research activity within the program MATRA, Berlage Institute.

Sien van Dam graduated in 1989 from the Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture. From 1986 till 2006 she worked in the office of Emilios Chlimintzas. After working as a guest teacher in Delft since 1990, she permanently joined the staff in 2000; first as coordinator, later as a teacher of architectural design. The focus of her interest is upon the theme of architectural identity, and how this can be stated and read in contemporary architecture. This theme is the research topic of the Master 1 course of the studio Mediatheque in collaboration with Tom Avermaete. Sien was also involved in the publication of "Idee en Architectuur" on museums, and the publication of a documentation of small public buildings. Currently she is working on a research project for the multiple use of school buildings.

Silvio Carta Ph.D. (2010, University of Cagliari, Italy), Doctor Europaeus, architect and critic based in Rotterdam. His main field of research is the understanding of the contemporary architecture and the study of criticism of architecture with main focus on design practice. Since 2008 he has been teaching Theories of Contemporary Design at the University of Cagliari (Italy) and since 2010 he is guest researcher at Delft University of Technology. He recently edited the monograph Urban Presences, Maurice Nio - Complete Works 2000–2011, AADCU Publications, Beijing and he is currently preparing the following publications: Federico Soriano, Complete Work (AADCU Publications, 2013), CEBRA, from Drawing to Building to Drawing (AADCU Publications, 2012) and Notes on Criticism of XXI Century (2013). 

Stefano Milani, Architect. He graduated cum laude from the I.U.A.V. of Venice. From 2001 till 2005 he had worked as project architect at Nio Architecten in Rotterdam. Since 2004 onwards he has been partner at the architectural firm Ufo Architects. He has been also carrying out a research on architectural drawings at the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology. Assuming drawings as the privileged field of architectural knowledge, the research attempts to enhance the role of architectural drawing within design research and theory. At the same faculty, he has also been teaching within the Territory in Transit Research Program. In 2006, he was invited to take part in the 10th Architecture Biennale of Venice. He recently curated the publication, Franco Purini, Drawing Architectures, 2008 and, with Filip Geerts, the Symposium Ideal/Real City.

Dr.-Ing. Thorsten Schuetze (1967) studied Architecture from 1992 until 1997 in Hamburg, Germany. Since 1998 he works as freelancing architect, consultant, researcher and lecturer (university teaching positions in Wismar and Hamburg) in the field of sustainable architecture and urbanism in Europe and Asia. From 1998 until 2000 he received a scholarship for the development of innovative energy systems for small urban areas. He published numerous international scientific publications amongst others in Germany, South Korea and for the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in Japan. He received his PhD at the Faculty for Architecture and Landscape at the University of Hanover in 2005 and became partner and executive of the architectural office “hwp – hullmann willkomm & partner – research, planning and development in architecture” (Hamburg/ Germany) in 2006. He is working as Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology at the faculty of Architecture since November 2006. Amongst others he established the international summer academy Sustainable Building in cooperation with TU Graz (Austria), University Stuttgart (Germany) and ETH Zürich (Switzerland) and is active member of the international forum on urbanism (ifou).    

Tom Avermaete is associate professor of architecture with a special research interest in the post-war public realm and the architecture of the city in Western and non-Western contexts.
 
His PhD focused on the work of the French contributors to the Team 10 group: Candilis-Josic-Woods. He was an external lecturer at Copenhagen University (1996-2005), researcher and lecturer at the Catholic University Leuven (1997-2003) and coordinator of the Centre for Flemish Architectural Archives (2003-2006).
 
He is the author of Another Modern: the Post-War Architecture and Urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods (2005) and editor of Wonen in Welvaart: Woningbouw en wooncultuur in Vlaanderen (2007), Architectural Positions: On Architecture, Modernity and the Public Sphere (2009), Colonial Modern: Aesthetics of the Past, Rebellions for the Future (2010) and Structuralism Reloaded: Rule-Based Design in Architecture and Urbanism (Axel Menges, 2011). He is an editor of OASE Architectural Journal, The Nordic Journal of Architecture and one of the initiators of the research and exhibition project In the Desert of Modernity: Colonial Planning and After (Berlin 2008, Casablanca 2009, Marseille 2013).  
 
He currently prepares the following publications: Making a New World? Re-Forming and Designing Modern Communities (with Rajesh Heyninckx, Leuven University Press, 2012) and Hotel Lobbies: Anonymous Domesticity and Public Discretion (with Anne Massey, Routledge, 2011).

Willemijn Wilms Floet, assistant professor Architecture. Degree in architecture from TU Delft (ir.). Practicing architect since 1988. Teaching and researching at the TU Delft since 1990. Expertise in documentations of architectural projects, under which A Hundred Years of Dutch Architecture (nl. 2002). Co-author of the Zakboek voor de woonomgeving (2001). Preparing PhD dissertation, participating in Int. PhD seminars Villard d’Honnecourt, Venice.