Staff

Dirk van den Heuvel graduated as an architect from TU Delft, 1994. He is associate professor with the chair. He is also the head of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam and was the curator of the Dutch pavilion for the 14th architecture exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2014. His expertise is in the field of postwar modern architecture and planning. In 2017 he was awarded with a Richard Rogers Fellowship from Harvard GSD for his research project Socio-plastics on New Brutalism and British welfare state politics.

Van den Heuvel was curator of the exhibition 'Structuralism' at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam (2014), together with Herman Hertzberger. With Max Risselada he organised two exhibitions and publications: ‘Team 10 – In Search of a Utopia of the Present’ (NAi, 2005) and ‘Alison and Peter Smithson – from the House of the Future to a house of today’ (010, 2004). Book publications include: 'Jaap Bakema and the Open Society' (Archis, 2017), 'Architecture and the Welfare State' (Routledge, 2015, with Mark Swenarton and Tom Avermaete) and ‘Lessons: Tupker / Risselada. A Double Portrait of Dutch Architectural Education’ (SUN, 2003, with Madeleine Steigenga and Jaap van Triest).

He is an editor of the series Delft Architectural Studies on Housing, DASH (nai010 publishers) and the open-access on-line journal for architecture theory Footprint, as well as an editorial board member of the Spanish open-access on-line research journal VLC Arquitectura. He was also an editor of the journal OASE (1993-1999). His writings have been published in various international magazines and on-line media, among which the Journal of Architecture, AA-Files, Volume and the Dutch website ArchiNed. He has worked as an architect for the offices of Neutelings Riedijk Architecten and De Nijl Architecten. His favourite piece of architecture is the Sir John Soane’s Museum in London.

Alejandro Campos holds a Master Degree in Architecture (2013) and a PhD in Architecture (Technical University Valencia, 2018). He is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the Department of Architecture, TU Delft, with the research project ‘Multiculturalism in Post-War Architecture’, and an architecture theory Lecturer at Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Finis Terrae, Chile. His research focuses on the history of post-war architectural design, particularly the work of Team 10 and Aldo van Eyck. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher and teacher in the Department of Architecture at Aalto University, Finland (2018-2019) and the Department of Architecture at TU Valencia, Spain (2015-2018). Since 2019, he is production editor and member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Revue de recherches sur Le Corbusier. In 2018 he cofounded Arqtistic, and architecture+research atelier.

Fatma Tanış is researcher and lecturer at TU Delft and the coordinator of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. Tanış trained as an architect in Istanbul and Stuttgart. She received Master's degrees in Architectural History (Istanbul Technical University) and Conservation and Restoration of the Historic Built Environment (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University). Having a particular interest in in-between realm, she has explored the specificity of port cities through the notion of cosmopolitanism in her doctoral dissertation titled 'Urban Scenes of a Port City: Exploring Beautiful İzmir through Narratives of Cosmopolitan Practices (2022)' and obtained a PhD at Delft University of Technology. In her doctoral project, she combined her personal interest in literary writing with her interdisciplinary background to explore İzmir from a cross-cultural perspective. Her other publications include 'Spatial Stories of İzmir (2020)'; 'Space, Represention, and Practice in the Formation of İzmir during the Long Nineteenth Century in Migrants and the Making the Urban-Maritime World: Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570–1940, eds. Christina Reimann, Martin Öhman (New York, London: Routledge, 2020)'; and a themed issue 'Narratives #1: Mediterranean and Atlantic Cities (2021)'.

Her deep interest in architectural research dates back to her bachelor's. She conducted an external research project, parallel to her training in architecture at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. Her research on 'Modernism and Oscar Niemeyer' was awarded competitively in 2012 by Emre Arolat Architecture. The grant was outsourced from the Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. Next to her research, she has been involved in lectures. She was a teaching assistant in 'Building Green' with Prof. dr. -ing. Carola Hein (TU Delft), and in 'The Global Turn: Modern Architectures and Movements since 1851' with Prof. dr. Tom Avermaete (ETH) & Prof. dr. Michelangelo Sabatino (IIT), in the Department of Architecture at TU Delft. She lectured to master students in the Diploma Studio of Methods & Analysis with Prof. dr. ir. Klaske Havik (TU Delft). She is currently tutoring MSc 1 students for the course 'Architectural Positions: Delft Lectures on Architectural Design and Research Methods' addressing contemporary positions in architectural discourse and practice.

Íñigo Cornago is an architect and lecturer. He graduated from ETSAM-UPM, Madrid in 2013. Thanks to an Erasmus grant, he spent one year as an exchange student at KTH, Stockholm. Currently, Íñigo is a PhD candidate at TU Delft in the Chair of Architecture & Dwelling. With the support of La Caixa Fellowship, he develops his PhD in the ’Architecture and Democracy’ programme, a collaboration between the Department of Architecture, TU Delft, the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, and Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Íñigo has developed a professional practice between architecture and urbanism working independently, collaboratively and in the partnership Cornago&Sanchez. He has put forward projects that range in scope and scale: From building housing projects and developing time-based urban master plans, to art interventions and collaborative design. He teaches design studio at Kingston University, London in both the BA (Hons) Architecture and the MA Landscape and Urbanism.

In 2016, he was awarded a Teaching Fellowship at CEPT University where he co-edited the publication “Ahmedabad Cross Section”. He has co-directed the Archiprix International Workshop in the 2015 and 2017 editions. In 2012, together with Claudia Sánchez, he directed a workshop for Interactivos-Hack the city at Science Gallery, Dublin and Medialab Prado, Madrid. Next year, they were Artist in Residency at El Ranchito, Matadero, Madrid.

Elena Martínez Millana is a Margarita Salas postdoctoral fellow (Ministry of Universities, Spanish Government) funded by the European Union (Next Generation EU programme) for three years, the first two at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and the third at Technical University of Madrid (UPM) (2022-24). In January 2022, she joined the research group Architecture Culture and Modernity (BK, TU Delft) and the Jaap Bakema Study Centre as Visiting Scholar, supervised by Dirk van den Heuvel.

Elena holds a PhD degree in Architecture from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), in the Doctoral Program in Advanced Architectural Projects (DPAA), awarded with “cum laude” distinction and also the “International Doctorate” mention (2021). She had a pre-doctoral fellowship funded by the European Union and the Community of Madrid (2017-18/2018-19). She received other grants for her research stay at the TU Delft, such as the one provided by the Social Council of the UPM and the Erasmus+ Traineeship (2019-20).

She holds a Master of Architecture from the TU of Madrid (ETSAM, UPM) in Advanced Architectural Projects (MPAA) (2015) and a Master of Science from the TU of Valencia (ETSAV, UPV) (2013), double specialization of the degree in “Architectural Heritage Intervention”, and “Urban Planning and Intervention in the City”. She received an Erasmus+ Scholarship (EU) to study one year at l’École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture (ENSA) Paris-Malaquais, Université Paris Sciences & Lettres (PSL) (2009-10).

Elena joined the research group in Collective Housing (GIVCO, UPM) at TU Madrid in 2015. Since then, her research has been focused on the field of housing, studying collective housing models and their domesticity. Her doctoral thesis, “Domesticity ‘behind bars: Project by Rem Koolhaas/OMA for the Renovation of a Panopticon. Prison in Arnhem. (1979-1988)”, extends the traditional limits of collective housing by studying prisons as such.

The results of her research have been published in high impact scientific journals, such as Frontiers of Architectural Research (2021) and Buildings (2020), also in the proceedings of international conferences such as the International Congress on Architecture Doctorates (IDA), European Research in Architecture and Urbanism (EURAU), and International Conference on Architectural Design & Criticism (Critic|All), among others.

During her pre-doctoral academic training, she has participated in several activities on developing and disseminating other investigations together with the member of the research group in Collective Housing (GIVCO, UPM). Also, on teaching mainly the Project courses at the Department of Architectural Projects (DPA, ETSAM, UPM), first as a Mentor 2014-15, later as an Intern 2015-16/2016-17, and finally as a Collaborator 2017-18/2018-19.

Dr. Paula Lacomba Montes holds a Master Degree in Architecture (2014) and a PhD in Architecture (Technical University Valencia, 2020). She is a Margarita Salas Fellow of the Spanish Ministry of Universities funded by the Next Generation EU programme and works as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Architecture, TU Delft (under the supervision of Dr. ir. Dirk van den Heuvel). Her research project is entitled: ‘Home and school. School architecture and the Welfare States’. In 2018 she was a visiting researcher and lectured at Cambridge University (under the supervision of Catherine Burke), and in 2019 an Affiliate Academic at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (under the supervision of Andrew Saint). She has published in several journals, such as: Architectural Research Quarterly, Oxford Review of Education (special issue on Education & Architecture), ACE, Zarch…She has taught design studio at all undergraduate year levels in the School of Architecture of Valencia. Since 2020 she collaborates with Arqtistic, an architecture + research atelier (www.arqtistic.com).