Staff

Klaske Havik is architect and writer. She has developed a distinct research approach relating architectural and urban questions (such as the use, experience and imagination of place) to literary language. Her book Urban Literacy. Reading and Writing Architecture (nai010, 2014) developed a literary approach to architecture and urban regeneration. She initiated and organised the 2nd international conference on architecture and fiction: Writingplace. Literary Methods in Architectural Research and Design (2013, publication 2016). Havik is editor of the Dutch-Belgian peer reviewed architecture journal OASE. With Hans Teerds and Tom Avermaete, she co-edited the anthology Architectural Positions: Architecture, Modernity and the Public Sphere (2009).

Jorge Mejía Hernández graduated as an architect in Colombia, and received a PhD form TU Delft, where he teaches graduation design studios and researches on architecture as a system of knowledge and exchange.
He sits on the editorial board of the Delft Architecture Theory Journal Footprint, and is a member of the Delft/Rotterdam-based research group Architecture Culture and Modernity, where he supervises PhD candidates from the program Architecture and Democracy. 
Mejía acts as science communications manager for the EU-funded COST action Writing Urban Places: New Narratives of the European City. 
He is is the author of Enrique Triana: Obras y Proyectos (Planeta, 2006), co-author of the catalog for the XX Biennial of Colombian Architecture (Sociedad Colombiana de Arquitectos, 2006), and co-editor of Writingplace: Investigations in Architecture and Literature (NAi010, 2016).
Mejía participated in the design of the Balcony exhibition, part of the 2014 Venice Biennale, and designed the Colombian Welfare Institute's (ICBF) headquarters in Soacha, as well as the Casa de Justicia de Bosa and the San José de Castilla high school in Bogotá.

Willemijn Wilms Floet, assistant professor of Architecture. Degree in Architecture from TU Delft in 1988. Practicing architect 1988-2001. Teaching and researching at the TU Delft since 1990. She developed her expertise in the documentation and analysis of architectural projects, notably: A Hundred Years of Dutch Architecture (1999). Willemijn obtained a joint PhD degree Villard d’Honnecourt from Venice Faculty of Architecture (IUAV) in 2012 and TU Delft 2014. This architectural study on the Dutch almshouse typology reveals the secrets of green courtyards by means of drawing which resulted in a book ‘Het Hofje Bouwsteen van de Hollandse stad, 1400-2000’ (2016). Currently she is involved in the development of methods of plan analysis, to study precedents informing design in BSc and MSc education.

Aleksandar Staničić is an architect and Assistant Professor at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, the Chair of Methods of Analysis and Imagination. Previously he was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at TU Delft, research scholar at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, and postdoctoral fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT. Aleksandar’s work stems from two book projects, War Diaries: Design after the Destruction of Art and Architecture (co-editor, University of Virginia Press, 2020) and Transition urbicide: Post-war reconstruction in post-socialist Belgrade (sole author, forthcoming). His is recipient of multiple grants and fellowships from the Graham Foundation, the European Commission, Government of Lombardy Region, Italy, and Ministry of Education, Republic of Serbia.

Angeliki Sioli, PhD, is an assistant professor of architecture at the Chair of Methods of Analysis and Imagination, TU Delft. She hails from Greece, where she obtained her professional diploma in architecture from the University of Thessaly and was granted a post-professional master’s in architectural theory and history by the National Technical University of Athens. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy in the history and theory of architecture at McGill University. She is a registered architect and has worked on projects ranging from residential and office buildings to the design of small-scale objects and books. Her research seeks connections between architecture and literature in the public realm of the city, focusing on aspects of embodied perception of place in the urban environment. Her work on architecture, literature, and pedagogy has been published in a number of books and presented at numerous conferences. She recently edited the collected volume Reading Architecture: Literary Imagination and Architectural Experience (Routledge, 2018). Before joining TU Delft, Sioli taught both undergraduate and graduate courses at McGill University, in Montreal; Tec de Monterrey, in Mexico; and Louisiana State University in the U.S. 

PhD Candidate

Robert A. Gorny studied architecture and design at the State Academy of Arts, Stuttgart, Germany and received a post-professional degree with honours in Architecture and Urban Design from The Berlage Center of Advanced Studies, TU Delft. He worked as a long-term freelance collaborator for SMAQ, Berlin, and founded Relationalthought as a nomadic architectural agency that challenges the modes in which our built environment is composed. He is now an independent designer, researcher, and teacher in the field of critical architectural thought. Currently, he teaches at the Chair of Methods of Analysis and Imagination, TU Delft, where he finalises his doctoral studies titled, A Flat Theory / Towards A Genealogy of Apartments.

Chris Woltjes graduated at TU Delft in 2006. He is a practicing architect at Group A Architects. He co-edited the publication Architectural Positions. On Architecture, Modernity and the Public Sphere (nai010, 2009). He is currently involved in the education BSc foundational courses at TU Delft. 

Óscar Andrade Castro. Architect by the School of Architecture and Design at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile. He teaches as an assistant professor at the School of Valparaiso since 2011, together with working, living and studying as a host at the Open City of Amereida. He has been involved in 9 of the School of Valparaíso «Travesías», together with being actively involved in the realization of International Exhibitions and workshops done by the School of Valparaíso and the Open City group. Since 2015 he is part of the Chair of Methods of Analysis and Imagination at the Department of Architecture TU Delft, bridging his PhD research with educational activities such as the realization of workshops, seminars and master graduation studios. His PhD research is focused on architectural methods and tools employed during experimental processes of design and construction that embrace non-plan and improvisation; explored through hands-on experiences in 1:1 built projects.

Jana Culek is an architect, urbanist, researcher and illustrator from Croatia, living and working in the Netherlands. She is the owner and founder of Studio Fabula, an architecture and urban design office in Delft. Since 2018 she  began to work on her PhD at the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, researching utopian projects in architecture and literature. After gaining her masters degree in architecture and urban planning form the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb, Croatia, where she is originally from, she completed the postgraduate master program from The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design as a part of the Berlage Generation XXV. Her research and design interests revolve around the topics of Dutch architecture, architectural representation, narrative structures and utopian narratives. Working within the borders of architecture, urbanism, illustration and storytelling, she focuses and critically reflects on architectural representation and the formation of architectural thought. Her projects focus on architectural stories and the textual and visual representation of those stores. In her work, she employs narrative as a catalyst for creating spatial sequences which are illustrated through text and drawings.

Eric Crevels is a PhD candidate at TU Delft as part of the TACK – Communities of Tacit Knowledge Innovative Training Network of the Marie Słodowska Curie action of the European Framework Program Horizons 2020. He holds a Masters and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. His research addresses the interfaces between architecture and anthropological theory, and architectural production by the perspective of labour, looking to bridge the boundaries between theory and practice, and exploring the potentiality of crafts in participatory practices and in the empowerment of individuals and communities. In the PhD, he questions how different ways of making refer to and afford different ways of knowing, how can they be understood in broader relationships between material production and knowledge, and to which degree their study can benefit architectural theory and practice. The goal is to address these questions by investigating the ways of knowing embedded into crafts — exploring how knowledge is perceived, developed, articulated, registered, learned and transmitted in the way craftspeople relate to and conceptualize their practice. By comparing these findings with studies on architecture and analysing their interfaces, overlaps and divergences, it seeks to better understand the question of knowledge in architectural production. The hypothesis is that the conditions in which practices take form in society shape the particularities of how people engage with their work, ranging from a process-oriented way of thinking to an object-oriented way, that in turn shape the practitioners’ modalities of knowing.