Tom Avermaete | Stiftungsprofessor für die Erforschung visionärer Formen der Stadt

Die Stiftungsprofessur für die Erforschung visionärer Formen der Stadt („Stadtkultur und öffentlicher Raum“), die von der Stadt Wien seit 2015 gestiftet und jeweils für ein Jahr vergeben wird, widmet sich der künstlerischen, radikalen und poetischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema Stadt und Architektur. Die mit der Stiftungsprofessur verbundene Lehre und Forschung hat zum Schwerpunkt die Entwicklung visionärer und radikaler stadträumlicher Konzepte. Darüber hinaus wird der Meinungsaustausch und Wissenstransfer zwischen der Stadt Wien und dem Institut für Kunst und Architektur intensiviert.

Die Stiftungsprofessur für das Studienjahr 2016/2017 wurde an Tom Avermaete vergeben.

Tom Avermaete is full professor of architecture at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He has a special research interest in the public realm and the architecture of the city in Western and non-Western contexts. With the chair of Methods and Analysis he focuses on the changing roles, approaches and tools of architects. His research examines precedents -design attitudes, methods and instruments- with the explicit ambition to construct a critical base of design knowledge and to influence contemporary architectural thinking and practice.
Avermaete is the author of Another Modern: the Post-War Architecture and Urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods (2005), The Balcony (with Koolhaas, 2014) and Casablanca -Chandigarh: Reports on Modernity (with Casciato, 2014). He is a co-editor of Architectural Positions (with Havik and Teerds, 2009), Colonial Modern (with von Osten and Karakayali, 2010), Structuralism Reloaded (with Vrachliotis, 2011), Making a New World (with Heynickx, 2012), Architecture of the Welfare State (with Swenarton and Van den Heuvel, Routledge, 2014) and Casablanca-Chandigarh: Reports on Modernization (with Casciato, Park Books, 2015).
Tom Avermaete is a member of the editorial board of the peer-reviewed journals OASE Architectural Journal and the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE, until 2015) and a co-editor of the Yearbook. Architecture in the Netherlands. Avermaete is the initiator of several exhibitions, amongst others Wonen in Welvaart/ Dwelling in Welfare (Antwerpen, Belgium, 2006) and In The Desert of Modernity (Berlin 2008, Casablanca 2009).
With the Chair of Methods and Analysis he was responsible for The Balcony gallery at the 2014 Venice Biennale. Together with Maristella Casciato he recently curated the exhibition How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh (CCA, Montreal, Canada, 2014-2015) and Lived-In. The Modern City as Performative Infrastructure (VAi/DeSingel, Antwerp, Belgium, 2015-2016).