Staff

Marc Schoonderbeek is the coordinator of the research group BC&T. He received his doctorate in architecture from TU Delft in 2015. Marc has practiced architecture in the Netherlands, Germany and Israel. In 1998, he and his partner Pnina Avidar founded 12PM-Architecture in Amsterdam. Marc focuses on the rationality of a theoretical position with architectural imagination through mapping and tracing hidden layers underlying a project. He edited the journal Footprint, lectured at numerous architecture institutes, and contributed to architectural magazines. In 2004, he co-founded 66EAST Centre for Urban Culture in Amsterdam and published “Houses in Transformation: Interventions in European Gentrification” (2008; with J.J. Berg, Tahl Kaminer, and J. Zonneveld).

Negar Sanaan Bensi graduated from Iran University of Science & Technology (IUST, Tehran), architecture department in 2006 with honorable mention. She received her master degree in Architecture from TU Delft in 2009 and received an honorable mention in National Archiprix 2011 in the Netherlands for her graduation project 'Space of the Voids, space of remembrance and forgetfulness, Havana'. During and after graduation she worked for several architecture firms in Tehran, Rotterdam and Antwerp, while contributing to design studios and workshops in Tehran Azad university and IUST, faculty of Architecture. She awarded the second price with her team for a national architecture competition 'Sustainable House' in 2005 and second prize for 'Project 1095- Pavilion Design, the Netherlands' in 2012. Since 2012, she has been a PhD researcher at TU Delft, department of architecture. Her research concerns a critical reading on the architecture of the 'bazaar', in regard to the understanding of complex spatial and territorial mechanisms within contemporary cities and their historical backgrounds. Currently she is teaching design and theory courses in the chair of Public Building.

Filip Geerts graduated cum laude from the Delft University of Technology in 2001, and is now a PhD candidate. 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. He coordinates the seminar courses of A-PB as well as teaching design studios. He also taught at the Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam. Filip is currently working to complete his doctoral thesis “Architecture/Territory.”

Micha de Haas teaches MSc. 1 design studios of BC&T. He studied both at the Bezalel Art and Design Academy in Jerusalem and the TU Delft. As a design approach he advocates a combination of the poetic and the intuitive with a fascination for the building process itself. Art and technology, poetry and building-law, economy and social evolvement should be naturally interwoven in an overall spatial architectural concept. Since starting his own practice in Amsterdam in 1997, Micha has won several architectural awards and competitions and his work has been extensively published in the Netherlands and internationally. Since 2008 with Angie Abbink he runs the office Abbink X De Haas Architectures.

Oscar Rommens graduated at the Hoger Architectuur Instituut Sint-Lucas Gent in 1994 and completed a postgraduate program Urban Design in Chicago, USA. Oscar teaches architectural design at the TU Delft and taught at the Academy of Architecture in Tilburg and the PHL Architecture Diepenbeek, BE. In 1999 he founded Import Export Architecture (IEA) with Joris Van Reusel. IEA is a interdisciplinary design studio 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 also engaged in the development of theoretical concepts, models and prototypes

Alper Semih Alkan studied architecture and received his M.Arch. magna cum laude from METU in Ankara in 2004. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis. In 2003-2007, he worked as a research and teaching assistant at METU, contributing to the master’s design studios, theory seminars and bachelor program. He collaborated with Exhibition Design Workshop, designed small-scale museums and many temporary exhibitions and founded his practice Mesospace. His research work focuses on representation in both conceptual and practical production with a special focus on architectural drawing, design media and discursive formations in architecture. Alper joined A-PB in 2011 and teaches architectural design and theory.

Research Focus: modes of design, architectural drawing & media, design discourse and theory

Filippo Maria Doria is an architect and a PhD candidate. He studied architecture at the TU Delft (MSc. Arch.) and the Politecnico di Milano (BSc. Arch). His work has been recognised in international completions such as 2009 Terraventure research completion (1st prize), 2012 Solar Decathlon (finalist), 2014 Netherlands Archiprix (1st prize), the Hunter Douglas Award (Nominated; ongoing selection) and 2015 Archiprix International (1 of 7 winners). In 2013 he founded ‘…’ (tre-punti) Architecture for architecture and urban studies. In 2014-2015 he worked with Import/Export Architecture in Antwerp, Belgium. He started his PhD research work at the TU Delft in 2014. His research  focuses on the relation between blindness and architectural representation.

Participant in project: AP-3. Borders & Territories

Gökçe Önal is a graduate of Istanbul Technical University and completed her M.Arch in Middle East Technical University, where she worked as a research assistant in between 2013-2016, contributing to the design-studio environment, workshops and exhibitions. Her research interests include aerial vision, the interrelation of transportation technologies and urban visuality, and contemprorary modes of spatial representation.