Drs.ir. E.P.N. Schreurs
Drs.ir. E.P.N. Schreurs
Profiel
As a so-called "hybrid practitioner", Eireen Schreurs combines an academic position with one as an architect at SUBoffice Architects. She has a position as an Assistant Professor in the Urban Architecture group at the Department of Architecture, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Her research focuses on the concept of material culture within architecture, practice, and historiography, particularly in the context of the emerging global realities of climate change.
From 2018 to 2023, Eireen completed a joint PhD at KU Leuven and the University of Antwerp, titled Material Dialogues. In her dissertation, she developed a material lens that offers an alternative perspective on the genesis of architectural projects, framing it as a dialogue between human and non-human agents. By revisiting the archives of three canonical projects, her research introduced three "material motives"—concepts that describe how the interaction between architects and materials generates architectural ideas.
Eireen is the initiator and a member of the Material Culture Collective within the Situated Architecture research group. This interdisciplinary collaboration explores the implications of a circular Baukultur, framed as a dialogue between human and non-human actors. Their collective addresses architectural and material reuse at the intersection of anthropology, landscape, and architecture. Their research reorients the reuse debate from a quantitative, technical focus to one that includes a social and cultural perspective. Current projects include Architects and their Fundgruben, a historical research that examines material yards of several modernist architects, as precursors to sustainable practice, and Rosie's School, which tracks material flows from the demolition of an art school in Antwerp.
Outside TU Delft, within the international As Found academic network, she also collaborates with Prof C Voet and Prof M Stuhlmacher of KU Leuven on an edited volume on typological and affective reuse, scheduled for publication in 2026. Earlier, Eireen served as one of the editors for the open-access publication The Hybrid Practitioner: Building, Teaching, Researching Architecture (Leuven University press, 2022) that proposes the figure of the hybrid practitioner, as someone who bridges the gap between practice and academia. Her academic work has been published in various books and journals.
Currently, Eireen contributes to the MSc Architecture program at TU Delft through teaching design studios, design research, and history seminars. Her areas of expertise include material culture in history, material flows, adaptive reuse, alternative canons, drawing in architecture, and histories of material ideas. In collaboration with her students, she develops various alternative and visual modes of research, combining drawing, ethnography, model making, photography, and visual arts, often presented through exhibitions.
Publicaties
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2023
Material Dialogues
The Iron Column in the Work of Labrouste, Wagner and Lewerentz
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2022
Roles and Challenges of the Hybrid Practitioner
Eireen Schreurs / Eva Storgaard / Marjan Michels
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2022
The Hybrid Practitioner
Building, Teaching, Researching Architecture
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2021
Material Transformations in Architecture
Tracing the Design Process of the Iron Column in Wagner's Postsparkasse
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2021
Transformative Dialogues
On Material Knowing in Architecture
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Onderwijs 2024
Onderwijs 2023
Media
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2019-03-29
Bildungslandschaften und Berufsschulen – Themen im aktuellen Schulbau-Diskurs
Verscheen in: Schulen Planen und Bauen
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2017-12-20
Project Hooidrift
Verscheen in: De Volkskrant
Prijzen
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2017
Rotterdam Architectuur Prijs
Nevenwerkzaamheden
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2023-10-19 - 2025-10-29