Conference organisers
Tom Avermaete is Professor at ETH Zürich, where he is Chair for the History and Theory of Urban Design. Avermaete has a special research interest in the post-war public realm and the architecture of the city in Western and non-Western contexts. He is the author of Another Modern: The Post-War Architecture and Urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods (2005) and Casablanca, Chandigarh: A Report on Modernization (2014, with Maristella Casciato). Avermaete has also edited numerous books, including Shopping Towns Europe 1945-75: Commercial Collectivity and the Architecture of the Shopping Centre (2017, with Janina Gosseye), and is a member of the editorial team of OASE Architectural Journal and the advisory board of the Architectural Theory Review, among others.
Janina Gosseye is Associate Professor of Urban Architecture in the TUDelft Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. Her research is situated at the nexus of architectural theory, urban planning and social and political history. Gosseye has edited and authored several books, including Shopping Towns Europe 1945-75: Commercial Collectivity and the Architecture of the Shopping Centre (2017, with Tom Avermaete) and Speaking of Buildings: Oral History in Architectural Research (2019, with Naomi Stead and Deborah van der Plaat). Her research has also been published in several leading journals, including the Journal of Architecture,the Journal of Urban History, and Planning Perspectives.
Conference committee
- Carola Hein, TUDelft, The Netherlands
- Samia Henni, Cornell University, United States
- Andres Kurg, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia
- Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Hannah Le Roux, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
- Duanfang Lu, University of Sydney, Australia
- Kelly Shannon, KULeuven, Belgium
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