Staff

Roberto Cavallo is an Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture where he is currently head of the Section Theory and Territories and chair of the group Architectural Design Crossovers. He has been Director of Education for the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (BK), Delft University of Technology (TUD) between 2014-2019. He rounded up his PhD at the TUD in 2008, obtained the IUS promovendi from the TUD Board of Doctorates in 2017, currently is member of the departmental Research Steering Team and promoter of several PhD candidates. In 2018 he was elected council member of the EAAE (European Association of Architectural Education) and he is founding member of the Architectural Research Network ARENA. In 2013 he worked at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS), Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS), at the Faculty of Architecture of Hong Kong University (HKU), and in 2014 at the College of Architecture Urban Planning (CAUP) of the Beijing Technical University (BJUT). Roberto Cavallo has an extensive experience in organizing and coordinating international workshops, symposia, conferences and exhibitions, and he is often invited for (keynote) lectures and as member of scientific committees in international academic events in The Netherlands and abroad. He fulfilled many roles and tasks in education and build up an outstanding reputation in terms of academic leadership that goes beyond the department and the TUD Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. From 1999 onward he has been the main graduation tutor for over 150 students. Registered as a licensed architect, he worked as a practitioner for several years.

Alper Semih Alkan studied architecture and received his M.Arch. magna cum laude from METU in Ankara in 2004. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis. In 2003-2007, he worked as a research and teaching assistant at METU, contributing to the master’s design studios, theory seminars and bachelor program. He collaborated with Exhibition Design Workshop, designed small-scale museums and many temporary exhibitions and founded his practice Mesospace. His research work focuses on representation in both conceptual and practical production with a special focus on architectural drawing, design media and discursive formations in architecture. Alper joined A-PB in 2011 and teaches architectural design and theory.

Research Focus: modes of design, architectural drawing & media, design discourse and theory

Cécile Calis graduated at TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture, in 1999. She worked in the offices of Herman Hertzberger and de Architecten Cie. In 2001 she started her own office in Rotterdam, initially involved in design studies for government bodies and participating in various competitions, she is now realizing small scale housing projects. At the faculty of Architecture Cécile is teaching in all kinds of Architectural design-projects, ranging from the very first designproject in which students design a house till graduation and various projects in between. Next to her teaching activities she coördinates the ON4 project, a second year designproject called ‘Woongebouw en Woonomgeving’. In this project students transform an existing postwar urban block into a sustainable new living environment.

Joran Kuijper graduated in 2014 at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology. Currently he is involved in Delft as a lecturer and researcher in the group of Architectural Design Crossovers. Within the academic environment he has been member of several editorial teams, as for example in 2018 for the international collaboration ‘Station as Nodes’. He is a tutor in Bachelor and Master architectural design studios and is preparing his PhD research Learning from Disneyland: Urban Architecture in Disney’s Theme Parks.

Steven Steenbruggen (1971) graduated at the TU Delft in Architecture and is a practicing architect since 1998. After working in several offices he starts his own architectual office in 2002, Studio Steenbruggen. As an architect he realised various projects, from several private houses to a new hotel concept like the Volkshotel. 

He is also teaching at the TU Delft, started as guest teacher in 2000. He became member of staff in the former chair of Leen van Duin (started in 2006) and is now (since 2013) joining the team of Complex projects. He is teaching in bachelor and master and assist in the development of the last bachelor reform in which he is coördinating now the first architectural design assignment ‘Huis & verankering’. He is also co-editor of Raadhuizen (2007). 

Johan van Lierop is an internationally operating architect and designer with many years of experience in the fields of Architecture, Design and Master planning.

His career began in 2004 in New York City where he started working at the renowned office of Steven Holl Architects. Subsequently, Van Lierop gained extensive work experience as Principal architect at the acclaimed Studio Daniel Libeskind, where he was the lead designer on many high-profile projects, ranging from the Lotte Mall complex in Songdo, South Korea, the Nokia Arena & Towers complex in Tampere, Finland, to the Swarovski Star atop the Rockefeller Christmas tree in NYC and his most recent project, the Dutch Holocaust Memorial of Names in Amsterdam.

In 2019, he relocated to The Netherlands to focus on his own design firm, BOUWERY, based in Rotterdam.

Van Lierop joined the Architectural Design Crossovers’ Studio in 2020 as a part-time member of the team.

Johan van Lierop received his MSc. in Architecture at Delft University of Technology in 2003. Prior to this, he studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Maastricht earning a BA degree in Interior and Product design.

Agnes van der Meij graduated at TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture, in 1997. After her graduation she worked with Claus en Kaan architecten and de architectengroep in Amsterdam. Driven by her wide professional interests and specifically the architectural expression across scales, she continued practicing, researching and teaching architecture and urban design across four continents.

From 2003 to 2009 Agnes lived and practiced in local offices in New Orleans and Houston. Following a move to Brisbane she started teaching and lecturing at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Queensland in 2009. During her subsequent tenure at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara (2012-2016), Agnes taught and lectured various courses ranging from technical drawing to urban design and graduation studios. Besides teaching she has been actively involved with the ongoing research on modern architecture and more specifically campus architecture. The campus functions as an ideal environment for knowledge exchange, embedded in local culture but open to international influences. Throughout her professional career, Agnes has worked in different countries and cultures, which has stimulated a positive curiosity and a drive to interrogate assumptions.

Agnes joined Architectural Design Crossovers in 2020. She is currently teaching Bachelor courses, both foundation courses in theory and plan analysis as well as design courses. Her responsibilities in the Master Program include the ADC Graduation Studio and Seminar Course amongst other Design Studios.

Mar Muñoz Aparici is a practising architect developing design-driven research on public space from urban and architectural perspectives. Her PhD research focuses on cultural building design as a tool to strengthen public life and is embedded in the CA2RE+ network.

Her practice lamardebe develops design, research and curatorship projects between the Netherlands and Spain. She has worked in multiple offices on international projects, from interior design to masterplan, housing or public buildings. She holds a Masters from TU Delft, where she studied the socio-political development of planning for tourism in Spain during Franchoism and graduated with a public building design based on civic engagement as a tool for urban regeneration. Mar has been invited to teach at the Catholic University of America, Polythecnic University of València and CEU Valencia.

Wenwen Sun studied Urbansim and received her master degree from Delft University of Technology in 2015. Currently, she is finishing her PhD in architecture at the TU Delft. Her research focuses on the notion and practice of public space in transnational and transcultural contexts, dealing with the exchange of knowledge, technique, and culture in the fields of architecture and urban design between China and the West. Her research has been published in the leading journals such as the Journal of Architecture. Apart from research, she has taught several design studios and seminars at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built environment, TU Delft.

Claudia Massioni is a doctoral researcher at HafenCity University Hamburg (DFG research training group ‘Urban future-making: Professional agency across time and scale’). Since September 2023, she has been a guest researcher at TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture in the Architectural Design Crossovers group. Claudia has carried out training experiences in the USA, Italy, and Germany. After a high-school exchange year (Portland, OR), she completed a five-year master’s degree program in building engineering and architecture at Marche Polytechnic University (UNIVPM, Ancona). During that, she joined the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Erasmus+). Later, she worked in an architecture office and in the research project on school architecture ‘PROSA – PROtotypes of Schools to Be Lived’ at UNIVPM as part of the PRIN Programme. She developed her PhD proposal for the DFG research training group ‘Urban future-making’ during a stay at Leibniz University Hannover (Faculty of Architecture, Institute of Urban Design and Planning, section Territorial Design and Urban Planning). Her doctoral thesis focuses on the adaptation of heritage documentation tools to everyday housing located in marginalised contexts to encourage future circular renovations (supervisors: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Annette Bögle (HCU Hamburg), Prof. Dr.ir. Roberto Cavallo (TU Delft), Prof. Dr.ir. Wido Quist (TU Delft).

Dr Ir Piero Medici is an architect, PhD, researcher, and lecturer at the TU Delft and the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture. His research focuses on experimental and radical sustainable housing during the 1970s and contemporary architecture related to Circular Economy, Doughnut Economics, Climate Justice and Degrowth. He is a founding partner of the architectural practice CoPE, which is currently involved in the construction phase of a Europan Winner's wooden housing complex project in Wernigerode, Germany. He worked in several architectural practices such as Grimshaw Architects (London) and Superuse Studios (Rotterdam). He wrote and lectured about his research at several international academic institutions.