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.

Frederique van Andel holds a Master’s degree in both urban planning and architecture from Delft University of Technology. She worked for Mecanoo architecten and DP6 architectuurstudio in Delft, and lived in Barcelona where she worked with architect Toni Gironès. Van Andel is a researcher with the Chair of Architecture and Dwelling at TU Delft and the Global Housing Study Centre. Her main focus of research is affordable housing in the Global South. She’s an author and editor of the book series DASH (Delft Architectural Studies on Housing) for which she was responsible for numerous issues e.g. The Residential Floor Plan, The Eco House, Housing Exhibitions and Global Housing – Affordable Dwellings for Growing Cities. Van Andel curated the exhibition ‘Global Housing – Affordable Dwellings for Growing Cities’, with venues in Delft (The Netherlands) and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). She’s the project manager for the research project 'Addis Ababa Living Lab: Creating Resilient Dwelling Clusters for Urban Resettlement in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [2ALL], co-financed by NWO-WOTRO and TU Delft. She also teaches Research Seminars on Global Housing to graduation students at TU Delft and is coordinator and content manager of PAD (Platform for Affordable Dwelling).

Over the last 20 years, Dick van Gameren has initiated a wide range of projects, varying from exhibition buildings to urban master plans. Winning the Archiprix in 1989, the international Europan II competition in 1991 and the Charlotte Köhler Award of the Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds in 1995 proved to be the start of an impressive career in architecture. Van Gameren started his own firm in 2006, which resulted in winning the Aga Khan Award in 2007 for his design for the Dutch Embassy in Ethiopia and the title of BNA Building of the Year in 2012 for the sustainable transformation of Villa 4.0 in Naarden. Alongside his career as an architect, Dick van Gameren became professor at the TU Delft in 2006, leading an internationally orientated education and research network, focusing on the problems and possibilities of affordable housing.

Robbert Guis (1988) has 10 years of experience in the field of architecture. During his studies at the Delft University of Technology, he worked as a draftsman at BYTR in Rotterdam and then as a designer at ANA architects in Amsterdam. From 2010, he worked for three years as a student assistant for Prof. dr. Dick van Gameren and the Chair of Architecture and Dwelling. In 2013 he graduated with a research by design project House & Land focussing on the architecture of farms and country houses in Europe.

After his studies Robbert worked for 4.5 years at the international and multidisciplinary firm Mecanoo Architects. During this period, he worked as an architect on various projects in housing, education and exhibition design. In addition, he worked for Mecanoo’s research lab Mec-lab, where he studied English housing typologies for the RIBA and urban development in Rotterdam South, Sloterdijk Amsterdam and around the A13 motorway.  

In 2018, Robbert started Flocks, an architectural firm that focusses on the design of new typologies for the future living environment.

Niels van Ham studied building engineering in Breda and architecture in the Maastricht academy of fine Arts before graduating at the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture in 2012.

He worked in different architecture offices on schools, housing and both large- and small-scale interiors. Between 2000 and 2010, he realized a few small-scale individual housing projects. In 2010, he started working for a large Rotterdam based Housing Corporation working on large- and small-scale urban developments.

At the faculty of Architecture Niels is currently teaching both bachelor and master students studios of Architecture & Dwelling.

Birgit Jürgenhake studied architecture at the University of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany, during which she enjoyed external traineeships in Finland and the Netherlands. She worked in various architectural offices on housing projects and public buildings, among others WGK Karlsruhe, Mecanoo, Erick van Egeraat, and KCAP. In 2001 Birgit Jürgenhake founded her own company. Since 2004, she is assistant professor with the chair of Architecture and Dwelling. In 2016, she finished her PhD research ‘Dwelling from the inside to the outside – from private to the public’ which focused on the facade as the filter between the inside and the outside and as the face to the public realm. 

Theo Kupers graduated in 1992 at the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture, and established himself in 1996 as an independent architect with his own architectural firm in Rotterdam: Theo Kupers Architecten. Since then he has been working on very different types of assignments, all in the field of architecture and interior design. With the achievement of the ‘2004 National Prize of Best School Building’ his professional field has expanded towards the design of educational buildings.

His most famous buildings are ‘The Olieberg residential complex in Scheveningen’, ‘De Wereld op Zuid communityschool in Rotterdam’, and the re-use of 10 listed buildings at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam.

He worked seven years for Mecanoo Architects and was a guest teacher at the Willem de Kooning Academy and various Academies of Architecture in Rotterdam, Groningen and Amsterdam. Since 2013 he is first tutor at the TU Delft Chair of Dwelling MSc3-4 graduation track Dutch Housing.

Nelson Mota is Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology. He holds a professional degree in Architecture (1998) and an advanced master on Architecture, Territory and Memory (2006) from the Department of Architecture at University of Coimbra (Portugal) and a PhD (2014) from Delft University of Technology. His doctoral dissertation “An Archaeology of the Ordinary. Rethinking the Architecture of Dwelling from CIAM to Siza” focuses on the relationship between vernacular social and spatial practices and the architecture of dwelling. Nelson is a founding partner of the architectural office comoco arquitectos, winner of the Portuguese National Prize for Architecture in Wood in 2013. He is the author of the book A Arquitectura do Quotidiano (The Architecture of the Everyday) published in 2010, and co-editor of “The ‘Bread & Butter’ of Architecture: Investigating Everyday Practices” published in 2015. He regularly contributes review articles to architecture magazines, essays to academic journals, and papers to conferences. Since 2013 Nelson collaborates as guest scholar with The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design. He is production editor and member of the editorial board of the academic journal Footprint.

Pierijn van der Putt graduated as an architect at TU Delft in 2001. He worked as an editor for the journal de Architect (2002-2008) before he started teaching at the Faculty of Architecture. He is currently an editor of DASH (NAi Publishers) and writes for various journals. He is coordinator of the MSc studios of Architecture & Dwelling and teaches both bachelor and master students.

Vanessa Grossman is Assistant Professor with the Chair of Architecture & Dwelling. She is an architect, a historian of modern and contemporary architecture, and a curator whose research focuses on architecture’s intersections with ideology, power, housing, and governance, with a special focus on global practices in Cold War era Europe and Latin America. Her forthcoming book with Yale University Press, tentatively entitled A Concrete Alliance: Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France, examines the remarkable burst of architectural activity that resulted when the French Communist Party (PCF) became a patron for the designs, discourses, and organizational efforts of a distinguished circle of modern architects, which found their most fertile terrain in the formerly industrial peripheries of France’s major cities, the banlieue.

She has published a number of books, such as the forthcoming coauthored Oscar Niemeyer, un exil créatif (Éditions du patrimoine, Collection Carnets d'architectes, 2021), and the coedited Everyday Matters: Contemporary Approaches to Architecture (Ruby Press, 2021), AUA, une architecture de l’engagement, 1960–1985 (Éditions Dominique Carré/Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, 2015), and Modernity: Promise or Menace ? France, 101 Buildings, 1914-2014 (Éditions Dominique Carré/Institut français, 2014). She is the author of Le PCF a changé! Niemeyer et le siège du Parti communiste (1966–1981) (Éditions B2, 2013), and A arquitetura e o urbanismo revisitados pela Internacional situacionista (Annablume/FAPESP, 2006), which was awarded the 8th Young Architects Critical Essays Prize (2007) from the São Paulo Department of the Institute of Architects of Brazil. Her work has also appeared in edited volumes, as well as in encyclopedias and journals worldwide.

Grossman was the cocurator of the 12th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo, entitled Todo dia/Everyday (2019), and of Une architecture de l’engagement: L’AUA (1960–85) at the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine in Paris (2015–16). She was the assistant curator of La modernité, promesse ou menace ?, the French Pavilion at the 14th Venice International Architecture Biennale (2014), which received a special mention from the jury.

She has received a number of grants and fellowships for her scholarly work across the globe, including a Barr Ferree Foundation Fund at Princeton University, a Grant to Individuals from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Chateaubriand Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, the Graham Foundation Carter Manny Award for doctoral dissertation writing, a Doctoral Exchange Fellowship from Sciences Po Paris, a Lassen Fellowship from Princeton University Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS), a Collection Research Grant from the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), a Master Scholarship from the Île-de-France Region, an Award for Scientific Publication and a Scientific Initiation Scholarship from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).

Prior to TU Delft, Grossman was a postdoctoral research fellow with the Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH Zürich). Grossman has taught at the University of Miami, Princeton University, and the National School of Architecture of Versailles (ENSA-V). Grossman holds a professional diploma in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo, a master’s degree in History of Architecture from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and a PhD in History and Theory of Architecture from Princeton University.

Anne Kockelkorn is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Dwelling in the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. Her research in urban and architectural history is focused on the intersections between design, territorial politics and processes of subjectivation since the 19th century. Her forthcoming monograph The Social Condenser II investigates the representation and production of large-scale housing complexes in France before and after the neoliberal reforms of 1977, for which she won the ETH Silver Medal for outstanding doctoral theses in 2018. Together with Susanne Schindler, she is currently preparing the edited volume Cooperative Conditions: A Primer on Architecture, Finance and Regulation in Zurich (Zurich: gta Verlag). This research project explains the regulatory framework and agency of cooperative housing in Zurich since the 1920s and is currently on display as a research station at the 17th Architectural Biennale in Venice until November 2021.

Anne has studied at the École d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville, graduated as an architect in 2003 from Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee and obtained her PHD in 2018 from ETH Zurich. In 2018 she was Guest Professor at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus; from 2019–2020 she co-directed the Master of Advanced Studies program for History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich.

Since 2006, Anne worked as architecture critic, in particular for the German Architectural Magazines ARCH+ and Bauwelt, and was an editor of the peer-reviewed Journal Candide – Journal for Architectural Knowledge from 2012 to 2015. She has published widely on German and French housing histories in the 20th century and was co-editor of Housing after the Neoliberal Turn: International Case Studies, (Berlin: Spector Books, 2015) and Productive Universals–Specific Situations. Critical Engagements in Art, Architecture, and Urbanism (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2019, with Nina Zschocke).

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.

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.

Brook Teklehaimanot did his bachelor’s degree in architecture and Urban planning at the Addis Ababa University. He did his postgraduate studies at the ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, doing MAS in Architecture, specializing in Urban Transformations in Developing Territories. His study, situated in the Canton Schwyz of Switzerland and the city of Addis Ababa, was focused on generating urban tools as an outcome of nuanced relationships between urban studies and design strategies. The grasping and reading of the forces of urbanization in developing territories and the subsequent projective intervention, both artistic and architectural, defines the crux of Brooks' work.

He has been teaching and preparing academic materials at the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction, and City Development (EiABC) for the past 15 years. His publication ‘MAKING’ is one of the pioneer trials to start an academic platform for discussing Architectural teaching didactic in the Ethiopian context. He has served as a guest lecturer and researcher at the Tu Delft Global Housing Studio in 2015. 

Brook divides his activities between academia and practice. He founded BOTA Architectoch in 2015, an architectural design firm based in Ethiopia. Some of Brook's works have been exhibited at the Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art entitled; South of the Sahara, Accelerated Urbanism in Africa. Currently, Brook is a delft global fellow and a doctoral candidate at the TU Delft, developing research to understand correlations between spatial practices and housing conditions in Addis Ababa.

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).