For the third issue of ‘Footprint’ we are calling for papers that take account of current discussions in philosophy and architecture on phenomenology with respect to space, place, location.
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Henriette Bier, graduated in architecture (1998) from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany and worked with Morphosis (1999-2001). She taught computer-based architectural design (2002-2003) at universities in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands. Her current research focuses on evaluation and classification of digitally-driven architecture through procedural and object-oriented studies. It, furthermore, introduces methodologies of digital design, which incorporate intelligent computer-based systems proposing development of prototypical tools to support the design process.
Gregory Bracken, M.Sc.Arch., B.Sc. & Dip.Arch, was born in Ireland in 1968. Gregory has a B.Sc.Arch. from Trinity College Dublin (graduating with distinction in 1992). He then spent the next decade working in Bangkok and Singapore before undertaking an M.Sc.Arch. (with a specialisation in urbanism) at TU Delft in the Netherlands (graduating with honours in 2004). He is currently pursuing a Ph.D at Delft.
François Claessens (1967) graduated in architecture at the TU Delft and in philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. In 2005 he finished his PhD research on the architectural discourse on the city in Germany around 1900. In 2007 he was a research fellow at the German Institute for Art History in Paris. He is now an associate professor of architectural design at the Delft University of Technology.
Isabelle Doucet holds a degree in Architecture and has been linked until 2007 as a researcher to W&K Dep. of Architecture Sint-Lucas Brussels, with a research grant from Prospective Research for Brussels (IWOIB, the Brussels Capital Region). Since 2005 she is also carrying out a Ph.D. at Delft Technical University (the Netherlands). Meanwhile she has taught design studio as well as architecture and urban theory in several European Universities.
Dirk van den Heuvel is an architect, curator and assistant professor at TU Delft. He is co-author of ‘Alison and Peter Smithson – from the House of the Future to a house of today’ (2004), and ‘Team 10. In Search of a Utopia of the Present’ (2005). He is currently finishing his dissertation on Alison and Peter Smithson.
Tahl Kaminer teaches at the architecture department of TU Delft, where he is currently completing a doctoral research tying architecture to the social via the 1970s disciplinary crisis. He is a founding member of 66 East, Centre for Urban Culture, and has recently published ‘Autonomy and Commerce’ in Architecture Research Quarterly (2007). Tahl is a registered architect and received an MSc. Architecture History from the Bartlett, UCL, London, in 2003.
Dr. ir. Ivan Nevzgodin, is an architect and researcher at ®MIT, TU Delft. He received his Master of Architecture from Novosibirsk State Academy for Architecture and Fine Arts, Russia in 1998, and a PhD there in 2002, and a PhD at TU Delft in 2004. For the last six years he is the secretary of the Russian Working Party of DOCOMOMO.
Camilo Pinilla is a graduate in architecture with specialisation in architectural design at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London and in urbanism at Delft University of Technology. He has practiced as an architect and urban designer and is currently completing his PhD dissertation on planned and emergent attitudes for urban intervention.
After graduating from the TU Eindhoven, Marc Schoonderbeek has practiced as an architect in the Netherlands, Germany (Studio Libeskind) and Israel. In 1998, he founded 12PM-Architecture together with Pnina Avidar, an Amsterdam-based architectural firm for architecture and urban design. He is Assistant Professor of Architecture, TU Delft, coordinator of the Master Program of the department Public Building, coordinator of the research group Border Conditions and currently working on a doctoral thesis within this group on the relationship between architectural theory, representation and design.
After his studies in Kraków, Weimar and Münster, Lukasz Stanek graduated in architecture and in philosophy. He has been working in architectural studios in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. After having investigated Henri Lefebvre's theory of production of space during a research scholarship at the ETH Zürich, he continues the research as a doctoral candidate at the Technical University Delft, Department of Architecture Theory. His publications include contributions to volumes on new interpretations of Lefebvre’s theory of space and on cities in (post)socialism.