Sub-curators
Interboro (Community) is a New York City-based research and design group founded in 2002. Its subject is the extraordinary, exciting complexity of the contemporary city, which it engages through writing, teaching, and professional practice. Interboro has won many awards for its innovative projects. In 2006, Interboro won the New Practices Award from the AIA New York Chapter. In 2005, Interboro was awarded the Architectural League’s Young Architects Award. Interboro’s work has been published and exhibited widely, including features in Lotus International, Praxis, and Verb, and exhibitions at the Leipzig Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and the Walker Art Center.
Bart Goldhoorn (Collective) graduated as an architect from TU Delft in 1989. In 1993 he received a grant to work in Moscow. In 1995, he founded the journal Project Russia, followed in 2001 by Project International, and in 2007 by Project Baltia. Project Russia, published in Russian and English, is currently the leading professional architecture journal in Russia. Bart Goldhoorn has lectured and published extensively on post-communist architecture. In 2004 he curated the Russian contribution to the IABR, and in 2008 was curator of the first Moscow Architecture Biennale.
Alexander Sverdlov (Collective) graduated from the Berlage Institute in 2002 and went on to work as an architect and project architect at Neutelings Riedijk, West 8, and AMO/OMA. He was local curator and contributor to the “Shrinking Cities” research by German Cultural Foundation and participated in the Rotterdam International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam in 2007. In 2007 he established SVESMI, an independent design and research practice in Rotterdam. Since last year SVESMI has been developing large scale housing projects in Moscow.
Can Altay (Refuge) received his PhD in Art, Design, and Architecture from Bilkent University in 2004 with a research project on the mass housing process in Turkey. He has taught at various architecture and design schools in Turkey, and at the AA Winter School in Dubai, 2008. His installations of videos, mappings, textbooks and photographs, incorporating research into urban environments and systems, have been included in various biennials and exhibited in art spaces such as the Walker Art Center (USA), ZKM (Germany), P.S.1 MoMA (USA), and Platform Garanti (Turkey).
Philipp Misselwitz (Refuge) is an architect and curator based in Berlin and Istanbul. He has taught at the London Metropolitan University and the University of the Arts Berlin and is a founding member of the Berlin-based architectural research group Urban Catalyst. His curatorial work includes “Liminal Spaces,” “Corpse Exquisite” (with Nikolaus Hirsch), and “Cultural Agencies” at Platform Garanti Istanbul. He also founded the platform www.grenzgeografien.org. In 2005, he initiated and now leads a UN-commissioned research project based at the University of Stuttgart which develops participatory planning strategies in urbanized refugee camps in the Near East.
Jörg Stollmann (Squat) graduated from the University of the Arts Berlin and Princeton University with degrees in architecture. He also took part in the MAS Program in Landscape Architecture, and was Director of Studies of the MAS Program in Urban Design at the ETH Zurich. In 2002, he founded Instant Architects with Dirk Hebel. In the fall of 2008, he became Visiting Professor of Design and Urban Design at the Technical University Berlin.
Rainer Hehl (Squat) studied architecture and urban planning at the RWTH Aachen, UdK Berlin, and the ESA Paris. He has worked as project architect in several architecture offices in Paris and at DillerScofidio+Renfro and OMA in New York. Since 2006 he has taught at the ETH Zurich while working on a PhD dealing with organizational networks and urbanization strategies for informal settlements.
Stephen Cairns (Reciprocity) lectures on architectural theory and design at the University of Edinburgh. Following a period of practice in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific, he competed an inter-disciplinary PhD at the University of Melbourne on the contemporary interpretations of the sublime, postcolonial criticism and colonial architecture in Indonesia. He has published in journals such as Urban Studies, Journal of Architecture, Postcolonial Studies, and edited the collection Drifting: Architecture and Migrancy (Routledge, 2004). He is currently collaborating with Greig Crysler (UC Berkeley) and Hilde Heynen (KU Leuven) on the forthcoming Handbook of Architectural Theory (Sage), and with geographer Jane M. Jacobs (Edinburgh) on a project concerning architecture and waste.
Daliana Suryawinata (Reciprocity) is a graduate of the Berlage Institute. Upon completion in 2005 she worked as an architect at OMA, West 8, and MVRDV. Her works have been published in Works of Young Indonesian Architects 1998-2002, Volume (April 2005), and KM3, and have been exhibited in Erasmus Huis Jakarta, the Venice Biennale, and as part of the JakArt program in Jakarta. Daliana is a member of Young Indonesian Architects, an architectural discussion forum in Jakarta, and has taught at the Berlage Institute, the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture, and TU Delft. She is currently working on a PhD-by-design project — “Prosper(c) ity” — at the Why Factory, a research group led by Winy Maas. In 2007 she founded Suryawinata-Heinzelmann Architecture and Urbanism/SHAU with Florian Heinzelmann.
Crimson Architectural Historians (Rotterdam: Maakbare Stad) is specialized in making historical awareness productive for present-day architecture and planning. Since 1994, when Crimson became part of the planning team for the extension of Utrecht Leidse Rijn, the office has developed a hybrid practice that takes the contemporary city as its subject. Crimson designs for the city, researches it, writes about it, teaches about it, presents it in exhibitions and works of art, advises on it, and makes policies for it. Publications include Re-Arch: New Designs for Old Buildings, Re-Urb, and Too Blessed to be Depressed: Crimson 1994-2002, among many others. From 2001-2007 Crimson led the WiMBY! project, an alternative approach to urban restructuring in the postwar New Town Hoogvliet, near Rotterdam.
Zef Hemel (Vrijstaat Amsterdam / Free State of Amsterdam) has been the deputy director of the Physical Planning Department of the City of Amsterdam (DRO) since 2004. DRO advises the city council on the policy for spatial planning and public spaces and parks. His work at the DRO includes the metropolitan development of Amsterdam. He studied social geography and planning at the University of Groningen, and obtained his doctorate from the University of Amsterdam. He has been the director of the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture, and has worked as a planner for the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM) in The Hague.
