Staff

Dr. ir. Heidi Sohn is Associate Professor of Architecture Philosophy and Theory at the Architecture Department of the Faculty of Architecture, TU-Delft. She received her doctoral title in Architecture Theory from the Faculty of Architecture, TU-Delft in 2006. Since 2002 she has been teaching theory seminars and design studios at the Faculty of Architecture, and since 2012 she is the academic coordinator and head of the Architecture Philosophy and Theory group. She is member of the Graduate School PhD mentor committee for the Architecture Department. She has been guest lecturer of architecture theory at DIA, Germany, and at Umeå School of Architecture in Sweden.

Dr. ir. Andrej Radman is Assistant Professor of Architecture Philosophy and Theory. He has been teaching theory and design at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture since 2004. As a graduate of the Zagreb School of Architecture, Radman received a Master’s Degree with Honours and a Doctoral Degree from TU Delft. Radman’s current research focuses on New Materialism and Ecologies of Architecture. He is a member of the National Committee on Deleuze Scholarship, and member of the editorial board of the architecture theory journal Footprint. He is also a licensed architect with a portfolio of built and competition-winning projects. In 2002 Radman won the Croatian Association of Architects annual award for housing architecture.

Dr. ir. Stavros Kousoulas is Assistant Professor of Architecture Philosophy and Theory in the Faculty of Architecture TU Delft. He has studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and at TU Delft. Since 2012 he has been teaching theory courses and design studios at TU Delft. He received his doctoral title cum laude from IUAV Venice participating in the Villard d’ Honnecourt International Research Doctorate. He has published and lectured in Europe and abroad. He is a member of the editorial board of Footprint Delft Architecture Theory Journal since 2014. He is the author of the book Architectural Technicities (2022) and the edited volumes Architectures of Life and Death (with A. Radman, 2021) and Design Commons (with G. Bruyns, 2022).

Robert A. Gorny is a lecturer and researcher at the academic group of Architecture Philosophy and Theory at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, where he has been teaching and coordinating courses focusing on theory and research methodology since 2015. Advanced in his doctoral studies “A Flat Theory: Towards a Genealogy of Apartments, 1540-1752” (2021), his transdisciplinary research approach combines historically-grounded scholarship with an assemblage-theoretical extension of genealogical and cartographic accounts of built environments, their organization, and genesis. Related publications include “From Epiphylogenesis to General Organology” (2022 with A. Radman), “A Diagrammatic Cartography of Architectures of Life and Death” (2021), and “Reclaiming what Architecture Does” (2018). He is a member of the editorial board of Footprint journal, where he has co-edited issues on queer theory (2017) and philosophy of technology (2022).

Taufan ter Weel is an architect, artist, and researcher with a transdisciplinary approach across sonic and spatial fields interested in the technicity of signal processing in connection with the production of space. Since 2015 he works for the Theory chair of TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture, where he also received his master degree in 2009. He is a PhD candidate at the faculty's Theory&Territories section and participates in the Villard d’Honnecourt international doctorate programme. He has realised various artistic projects, performs live electronic music since 2001, and finished the Institute of Sonology’s one-year course at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague.

Ran Pan is a PhD candidate working on the topic of Urban Pedagogies in the Digital Age. Ran received her master’s degree in Urban Planning from The University of Melbourne with a thesis focusing on urban morphologies and live music clustering. She also worked as a spatial analyst in the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning of the State of Victoria. She is passionate about architecture and urban design theory and looks forward to bringing her cross-disciplinary knowledge into future research.

Gert graduated from the University of Pretoria (MProf. Arch.) and worked for ‘Ora Joubert before establishing an interdisciplinary design firm (2011-2016). He co-hosted lecture series and studios for the Washington University in ST. Louis (USA) Masters in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design (2014, 2015 & 2016) and taught at the University of Pretoria (2016, 2017 & 2019). In 2021 he joined Jaco Wasserfall Architects and Namibia University of Science and Technology. His PhD research focuses on water as a lens to shape norms and values to develop non-anthropocentric theory. 

Angelos Chiotis is PhD candidate of Architecture Philosophy and Theory in the Faculty of Architecture TU Delft. He has studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens. He is currently exploring the role of marginalized architectural heritage in modern Greece and the reciprocal relation between the Greek nation-state and Europe’s colonial descent. His research interests focus on history and political ecology in totalitarian contexts, borders and territories, land rights, and migration. He has taken part on the publication of books, and curating of international exhibitions, conferences, and workshops. Prior to that he worked with architecture firms in Stockholm and Milan.

Yasin Dündar is a PhD Candidate of Architecture Philosophy and Theory in the Faculty of Architecture TU Delft. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture at Selçuk University and Gebze Technical University. His research interests are game studies, new materialism, and architectural theory. His PhD focuses on how the generativity of the act of architecture can be understood from a ludic perspective that maximises relations rather than fixates on the optimisation of results.