Christophe Van Gerrewey (born 1982) is a Belgian architectural and literary theorist, writer and architect. He is currently tenure track professor fo
architectures, criticism, history and theory
at th
School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering
(ENAC) of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

Career

Gerrewey studied architecture at Ghent University and literary science at KU Leuven, and completed a PhD on "Architecture a user manual. Theory, Critique and History since 1950" on the work of architecture critic

Geert Bekaert Geert Bekaert (1928–2016) was a Belgian architectural critic and writer on art and design. He was one of the most prolific non-fiction writers in the Dutch language of the late 20th-century. As a young man he was for some years a member of the ...

. Since 2015, Van Gerrewey leads as tenure track professor the laboratory o
Architecture, Critique, History, and Theory (ACHT)
at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He teaches

architecture theory Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings o ...

Research

The main objective of his research and of his of lab ACHT is developing a comprehensive understanding of contemporary architecture as a cultural discipline in Western Europe. The method of his research is threefold: critical evaluation of contemporary projects and developments, historical study post-war trends, oeuvres and evolution) and theoretical investigation of the cultural conditions of architectural production since the late 19th century. Gerrewey's current research focuses on the critical reception of the work of OMA/

Rem Koolhaas Remment Lucas Koolhaas (; born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He is often cited as a re ...

(1975-1999), the genesis of the Kunsthal in Rotterdam by OMA/Rem Koolhaas (1987-1992), architectural writers of the twentieth century, the relationship between architecture and philosophy since the Second World War, and a short history of metropolitan theory in Switzerland. His texts on architecture, literature, performing arts and visual arts have appeared in magazines such as De Witte Raaf, Etcetera, Ons Erfdeel, De Leeswolf, Domus, De Brakke Dog, De Gids, nY, A +, NRC Handelsblad, Streven, De Groene Amsterdammer, Rekto: Verso, The Architect, The Reactor and Metropolis M. He is a member of the editorial board of the art and architectural magazine De Witte Raaf.

Literary works

In 2010 a collection of stories 'Five disease stories' was published. And in 2012 he published his debut novel "Op de hoogte" in Antwerp, a novel in letter form about love lost. In 2013 he received the Debuutprijs from boek.be for this, in 2014 the literary prize for East Flanders and in 2016 the "European Union Literature Prize 2016". In 2013 his second novel "Train with delay" also appeared. In 2015, the essay collection "Over everything and for everyone" followed. In 2017 his novel "Werk Werk Werk" was published by Polis.

Distinctions

Awards

* European Union Literature Prize 2016 for the novel Op de hoogte (De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, 2012). * Prize for Young Art Competition, Review category and Essay category (2008) * Essay prize from Philosophy Magazine (2000)

Memberships

* Member of the editorial board of PostWarHistories. * Member of the editorial team o
OASE
an
De Witte Raaf
* Visiting critic at the Architectural Association, London.

Key publication

* Van Gerrewey, C. (ed) (2019) OMA/Rem Koolhaas: A Critical Anthology from Delirious New York to S,M,L,XL. Basel: Birkhäuser. * Van Gerrewey, C. (2017) ‘War of the Worlds. Zaha Hadid’s Port House in Antwerp’, The Architectural Review, 241, no. 1447, pp. 68–77. * Van Gerrewey, C. (2017) ‘Something Completely Different’, E-Flux Architecture, 15. * Van Gerrewey, C. (2016) ‘Abandon Your Pencils. The Use and Abuse of Architecture Theory for Life’, Archithese, no. 2, pp. 33–37. * Van Gerrewey, C. (2015) ‘How Soon Is Now? Ten Problems and Paradoxes in the Work of Dogma’, LOG, no. 35 (2015), pp. 27–47.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Van Gerrewey, Christophe 1982 births Living people Belgian writers Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Belgian architects Architectural theoreticians