Arie Graafland, dr., Director Delft School of Design

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor of Architecture

Arie Graafland is professor in Architecture Theory at the Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft. After a three year technical education in Rotterdam, he studied sociology (VU) and philosophy (UvA) in Amsterdam. He worked for several years in urban research for the city of Arnhem. In 1978 he began his academic work in the department of Urbanism at the TU and in 1986 he received a PhD in architectural theory. In 1992 he became Associate Professor in the department of Architecture Theory where he continued to carry out research and education in both Architecture and Urban Theory. He has lectured internationally and published extensively in these areas. Dr. Graafland was awarded the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek chair in 1999 and founded the DSD in 2002. He is the editor of The Delft School of Design Series on Architecture and Urbanism with 010 Publishers. Together with Harry Kerssen he is principal of Kerssen Graafland Architects in Amsterdam. He resides in Amsterdam.

Publications and recent work:

• 'Looking into the folds'. © AD Graafland. [See Crossover and The Body in Architecture ].
• 'On Criticality'. © AD Graafland, in Crossover.
• Architectural Bodies: Artificiality in the work of Rem Koolhaas.
• Books published
• All publications 

E-mail: A.D.Graafland@tudelft.nl
Telephone: +31(0)15 – 278 4207
Website: http://www.ariegraafland.eu

Deborah Hauptmann, Associate Director Delft School of Design

Associate Professor of Architecture

Deborah Hauptmann is Associate Professor in Architecture Theory. In the DSD she also carries out the functions of liaison nestor (advisor) for PhD research in Architecture and Theory and the FUTURE CITIES Graduate program coordinator.
For the past decade Hauptmann has been engaged in both theory and design teaching at the Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft. Prior to the founding of the DSD she was Masters program coordinator for the Architecture Theory department where she developed much of core curriculum still taught in that department. Hauptmann lectures internationally and contributes actively to conferences as a speaker and moderator, both at the TU and abroad. Her research interest include, i.a.: philosophical notions of time & space in relation to architecture and urban theory, specifically developed through a close reading of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze; the problematic of the virtual (Bergson, Deleuze, Foucault, Lefebvre et al.); the geo-politics & socio-poetics of the city (Beck, Derrida, Rancier, et al.); and issues pertaining to the limits and extensions of trans-disciplinary thinking.
Before coming to the TU Delft in 1998, Hauptmann practiced Architecture in Switzerland, Spain and America where she was a founding partner in SOPHOS, an Architecture design and development consulting firm. She resides in Rotterdam.

Publications and recent work:

'Foreword from Writing and Seeing Architecture'.  © D. Hauptmann, in Writing and Seeing Architecture, C. de Portzamparc, P. Sollers.

E-mail: D.Hauptmann@tudelft.nl
Telephone: +31- (0)6 - 39 25 14 02

Marc Boumeester

Filmmaker & instructor

After his studies Marc Boumeester got involved in the process of film-making. Since the early nineties he has worked for various major television- and film-producing companies and realized over 60 products, varying from commercials and comedies to drama-series and feature films. In recent years he developed himself on an even more challenging level. Combining his affection for architecture with his knowledge of unstable media resulted in a number of (partly ongoing) experimental research projects involving groups of International master-students and researchers, situated in various countries around the globe.

Currently he is appointed as coordinator and lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, as developer/lecturer at the Delft University of Technology, Delft School Of Design department of Architectural Theory and as developer/lecturer at the Delft University of Technology department of Media-studies. This combination gives opportunity to further develop the newly found field of expertise, linking directly architecture and public space to the application of unstable media techniques in order to come to a better understanding and use of these forms of communication, also embedding them directly in the curriculum of the various educational institutions. Besides this he is working as a free-lance consultant. His networks span from the obvious directly work related to the more glamorous such as the International Art Experts Forum at the ARCO in Madrid.

 

E-mail: info@marcboumeester.com
Telephone: +31(0)15 – 278 1830

Gregory Bracken, dr

Researcher

Gregory Bracken was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1968. He successfully completed a Ph.D. at the Delft University of Technology's Faculty of Architecture in 2009. His thesis was entitled ‘Thinking Shanghai: A Foucauldian Interrogation of the Postsocialist Metropolis'. It is available at http://www.library.tudelft.nl. Dr. Bracken has a B.Sc.Arch. and Dip. Arch from Bolton Street College of Technology and Trinity College Dublin (graduating in 1992 with a distinction in thesis), he attained an M.Sc.Arch. (with a specialisation in urbanism) at TU Delft in 2004 (graduating cum laude). He has lived and worked in Asia since 1993 and has written the series of ‘Walking Tour' guidebooks to cities in the region. Dr. Bracken's current research at the Delft School of Design is into the postcolonial global cities of East Asia, a topic he also researches in his capacity as research fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies in Leiden University (www.iias.nl). He is married and lives in Amsterdam.

E-mail: gregory@cortlever.com
Telephone: +31(0)15 – 278 1830
Website: http://gregory-bracken.com/
Info: Research Information

Gerhard Bruyns, ir. BArch

DSD Masters Program Coordinator, instructor & researcher

Gerhard Bruyns is the administrative coordinator for  the  DSD Masters Program. Bruyns received his Bachelor in Architecture degree (BArch-Cum Laude) in 1998 from the University of Pretoria, South Africa.  In 2002 he completed a Masters Degree in Urbanism at Delft University of Technology. The Masters thesis project Entitled: ‘Ubuntu- Post Colonial Urban Tribe Space’ dealt with the understanding and operational mechanisms of a spatial device, termed the ‘urban machine’, in a Post Apartheid South African City. The project explored how urban space translated into a variety of interface mechanism and how design could possibly facilitated certain strategies.
In collaboration with the Spacelab group, a Research Studio within Urbanism, he is presently completing his PhD (Promoter: Prof. Dipl-ing. J.H. Rosemann) which focuses on the spatial form and structure of the Dutch Randstad related to the notions of networks. In 2007 Gerhard coordinated, under chairman ship of Professors A.D. Graafland and I.B.Low, the Urban Development Stall of the African Perspectives Africain event held at the TU Delft. [http://www.africanperspectives.nl/].

His teaching experiences range between having thought, being an external examiner or as a guest critique for various theoretical and design courses of both the Bachelor and Masters levels at Universities of Pretoria and Cape Town, South Africa, and Delft University of Technology. Present research interests remain design orientated at the scale of the city. Interests further include the building of Urban Archives – as maps for reading the public realms in non-European territories. Gerhard Bruyns is a native South African, he currently resides in Amsterdam.

Recent work:

- De-/signing the Urban: techno-genesis and the urban image

E-mail: g.j.b.bruyns@tudelft.nl
Telephone: +31(0)15 – 278 1656
Info: Publications

Patrick Healy

Senior Lecturer

After completion of studies in Philosophy and later Sociology and Near Eastern Languages, Pontifical University Maynooth, University College Dublin, Patrick Healy has been engaged in writing, research and teaching, mainly in the area of aesthetics and contemporary art. His recent publications include works on aesthetics, the philosophy of science and artists biographies, including a broad range of other activities associated with his work as Professor of Interdisciplinary research for the Free International University, Amsterdam, appointed 1997. He works as a tutor in the DSD, and provides lecture series in aesthetics and the Philosophy of Science.

E-mail: p.e.healy@tudelft.nl
Telephone: +31(0)15 – 278 8470
Info: Full CV and publications list

Tahl Kaminer , dr.

Design & Theory instructor

Tahl Kaminer is currently teaching at the DSD. He completed his doctoral research, 'The Idealist Refuge', at the Architecture Theory Department of TU Delft in 2008 under the supervision of Prof. Graafland. Tahl received a MSc. Architecture History and Theory at the Bartlett, UK (2002-3), a grant from the Fonds BKVB in 2002, and has practiced architecture at several studios, including the Architekten Cie, Amsterdam, since receiving his diploma in 1998. He is a founding member of 66 East, Centre for Urban Culture, an Amsterdam based foundation involved in the study of the urban environment. Tahl has published papers in several journals and books, and recently co-edited Houses in Transformation: Interventions in European Gentrification (Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2008). He co-edited the inaugural issue of the DSD academic journal Footprint in 2007.

E-mail: t.kaminer@tudelft.nl
Telephone: +31(0)15 – 278 1830

Andrej Radman, ir

Assistant Professor of Architecture

Andrej Radman (Zagreb, 1968) has been teaching design studios and theory courses at the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture in The Netherlands since 2004. In 2008 he joined the teaching and research staff of the Delft School of Design (DSD) as Assistant Professor of Architecture. A graduate of the Zagreb School of Architecture in Croatia, he received a Master's Degree with Honours from the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture. Radman continues to practice architecture and has won a number of awards from national competitions together with architect Igor Vrbanek, including the Croatian Association of Architects Annual Award for the most accomplished housing architecture in Croatia in 2002 for the design of a family residence in Zagreb. He has designed for the architectural offices of APZ and AP-92 in Zagreb and Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architects in Rotterdam. Radman's doctoral research focuses on J.J. Gibson's ecological approach to perception based on the complementarity of the perceiver and the environment.

Recent work:
'Fajrunt!/Closing Time!, Aaron Betsky Interview', A. Radman © MMVIII in Oris (http://www.oris.hr/)

'Column / Phase Portrait of Public Interior; or How Uexküll Made Peaceful Active Coexistence Possible,' A. Radman © MMIX in CiP (http://www.uha.hr)

E-mail: a.radman@tudelft.nl
Telephone: +31(0)15 – 278 1830
Website: http://www.dsd.tudelft.nl
Info: CV - Andrej Radman

Miguel Robles Duran, ir.

PhD candidate & studio instructor

Born in Mexico City, studied architecture at the ITESM in Monterrey, Sci-Arc in Los Angeles and The Berlage Institute, Rotterdam. In 1999 opened his office in the border region Tijuana-San Diego. In 2001 he was granted in San Diego the 2001 Honor Award of the American Institute of Architects. His work is currently exhibited at The Architectural League of New York, World View Cities, urbaNplus in Zurich, Switzerland, San Diego/Santa Monica Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) and its part of the forerunning architecture triennial in Lisbon and the Rotterdam biennale. He has taught theory and design at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Tijuana, Mexico, at "The new school of architecture" in San Diego, California, Woodbury University Los Angeles/San Diego, postgraduate urban design at K.U. Leuven, Belgium and architecture/urban design at The Berlage Institute. Presently he teaches a masters diploma design studio and an advanced theory seminar on Marx, Utopia and the postmodern city, at the DSD and The Berlage Institute, The Netherlands. He is also conducting research as a PhD candidate on contentious collective urban manifestations.

E-mail: m@cohabitationstrategies.org
Telephone: +31(0)15 – 278 1830
Website: http://www.urbanasymmetries.org

Heidi Sohn, dr, ir.

Assistant Professor of Architecture

Heidi Sohn is Assistant Professor in Architecture Theory. In 2006 she completed her doctoral work ‘The Emergence of Urban Monsters' under supervision of Arie Graafland. She received her MSc. in Architecture and Urbanism from the Faculty of Architecture at the TU-Delft in 2001 (cum laude), and her BSc. in Architecture and Urbanism from the UIA, Mexico City (cum laude) in 1996. Currently, she is research coordinator of the DSD Urban Asymmetries special research project at advanced and doctoral levels, and head coordinator and tutor of the DSD Master Program Future Cities: Urban Asymmetries. Since January 2008 she is also academic coordinator of the Theory Section, where she continues to teach and lecture regularly. She has lectured extensively on diverse topics in Europe, Asia, North America, and Latin America. She has published her work in several journals and books, and is an editorial board member of the DSD academic journal Footprint. Together with Arie Graafland, she is co-editor of a section in the forthcoming Handbook for Architectural Theory (Sage, 2009). Prior to her academic involvement, she practiced as an architect and consultant in Mexico and the USA.

E-mail: h.sohn@tudelft.nl
Telephone: +31(0)15 – 278 1649
Website: http://www.urbanasymmetries.org

Graham Livesey , ir.

PhD candidate

Graham Livesey is currently an Associate Professor in the Architecture Program (Faculty of Environmental Design) at the University of Calgary, Canada where he has taught design, architectural history, and urban design since 1991. He holds a professional BArch degree (1984) and a post-professional MArch (1991) in history and theory, both from McGill University (Montreal, Canada). During 1995-2004 he was a principal of Down + Livesey Architects, and he was the Director of the Architecture Program from 2000-06. He is currently the Treasurer of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (Washington, DC). He is also the expert advisor on architecture to The Canadian Encyclopedia, and editorial advisor to the journal Architecture and Ideas. He has published two books with the University of Calgary Press: Passages: Explorations of the Contemporary City (2004) and Gordon Atkins: Architecture 1960-1995 (2005). Graham Livesey is currently working on a DSD doctorate under the supervision of Prof Arie Graafland; he is examining twentieth century urban green space systems as influenced by the Garden City movement.

E-mail: livesey@ucalgary.ca
Telephone: +31(0)15 – 278 1830
Website: http://www.ucalgary.ca/evds

Roemer van Toorn, ir.

Liaison Nestor for PhD research: Berlage Institute & Theory Instructor

Roemer van Toorn is an Amsterdam based writer, editor, curator and photographer. He runs the History & Theory program at the Berlage Institute Laboratory of architecture Rotterdam. After graduating as architect from the University of Technology Delft, he published The Invisible in Architecture (1994), in collaboration with Ole Bouman.

Van Toorn is a staff member of the Delft Ph.D. School of Design (DSD), run by Arie Graafland and Winy Maas at University of Technology Delft, while at the same time pursuing a career as an international lecturer. He has been the editor of the annual publication Architecture in the Netherlands, as well as an advisor of the magazine Archis (volume) and Domus. As author and photographer he also contributes to many national and international publications.

His photography work has been exhibited in Amsterdam, Venice, Orleans, Winnipeg, Los Angeles and was part of the travelling exhibition Cities on the Move curated by Hou Hanru and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. Currently he is working on a publication as part of his Ph.D research Fresh Conservatism or Radical Democracy? Aesthetics as Form of Politics. Forthcoming is his photobook the Society of The And, which includes articles by Stefano Boeri, Bart Lootsma and several others.

Recent articles: 

- interview with Lars Lerup,

- Dirty Regionalism,

- Counteracting the clash of cultures,

- Politics of Appearance.

E-mail: R.vanToorn@tudelft.nl
Telephone: +31(0)15 – 278 1830
Website: http://www.roemervantoorn.nl

Karan August

PhD Candidate

Karan August completed her BA in Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley in 2003.  Following an informal sabbatical in Florence, she moved to New Zealand to pursue an Epicurean ideal of happiness; i.e., good friends, good food and good wine, in a garden.  After a horticultural apprenticeship ran its course, Karan returned to academia at Victoria University of Wellington and 2008 she received her MArch with distinction.   She has lectured, tutored and presented at Victoria University and aboard.  She is currently engaged in PhD research at the Delft School of Design.

E-mail: K.August@tudelft.nl
Telephone: +31(0)15 – 278 1830
Website: http://www.delftschoolofdesign.com

Shixing Liu, Associate Professor of Architecture

Visiting Scholar of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, PRC

Shixing Liu received his B.Sc. in architecture from Shandong Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering in 1993, and M.Sc. in Architectural Technology from Tongji University, China, in 1997. He is presently an associate professor of Architecture at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). Having focused on architectural education for years, he devotes his profession by teaching, practice and research. He has taught first-year studio, a variety of lectures, published several papers on education as well as one dealing on the topic of register examination in China. Liu also acted as a part-time editor of Time+Architecture Journal and has practiced as a Class 1 Registered Architect (PRC).

E-mail: shixing.liu@tudelft.nl
Telephone: +31 (0)619815202
Website: http://naoce.sjtu.edu.cn/xysz_detail_en.php?id=34

Annemieke Bal –Sanders

Executive Secretary

Anniemieke Bal-Sanders has been with the Delft University of Technology since 1983. Her introduction to the Faculty of Architecture commenced with Personnel Relations Department as a secretary.
Since 1994, she has managed to secure the position of 1st secretary at the Department of Architecture, focused on handling the entire secretarial and administrative section. From June 1998 until March 2008 she fulfilled the position of secretarial division head, leading, managing a number of individuals within the secretarial section.
As from March 2008 Annemieke will act as a personal assistant to the Delft School of Design Directors and Course coordinators, as well as first point of contact between individuals and the DSD.

E-mail: A.Bal-Sanders@tudelft.nl
Telephone: +31 (0)15 2781830

Jasper Schaap

DSD Masters Program Assistants

Jasper Schaap (1988) is a Bachelor student at the Faculty of Architecture in Delft. In 2009 he organized, in collaboration with fellow students, the InDeSem seminar entitled "Point of View," and focused on how human experiences architecture and its surroundings. He is planning to finish his Bachelor program in January 2010, to continue with the Architecture Masters degree program. Jasper joined the DSD team in July of 2009.

E-mail: dsdmastersprogram-bk@tudelft.nl
Telephone: +31 (0)15 278 3903
Website: http://www.dsd.tudelft.nl