Roemer van Toorn

Roemer van Toorn (The Netherlands, Amsterdam, 1960) is a history and theory professor at the Berlage Institute Laboratory of Architecture [http://www.berlage-institute.nl] , Rotterdam. He graduated with honors from the Delft University of Technology as an architect and published "The Invisible in Architecture" (1994) [http://www.olebouman.net/?cat=4] in collaboration with Ole Bouman, in which he dissected the varied range of cultural, economic, political and philosophic outlook within the contemporary architectural and urban discourse with the aim of outlining the different positions and issues of today’s architecture.

As professor, he runs and coordinates the Projective Theory program [http://www.berlage-institute.nl/03_postgraduate/projective.html] at the Berlage Institute, and is a staff member of the Delft School of Design (DSD [http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=e7242ed0-86d6-4a88-ba59-bfb4e2e8c297&lang=en] ) run by Prof. Dr. Arie Graafland [http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/users/graaflan/internet/] at Delft University of Technology, while at the same time pursuing a career as an international lecturer. He has been editor of the annual publication "Architecture in the Netherlands" [http://www.naipublishers.nl/architectuur/jaarboek_0405_nl.html] several times as well as an advisor of the magazine "Archis" (Volume) [http://www.archis.org/volume/] and for instance "Domus" [http://www.domusweb.it/] . As author and photographer he also contributes to many national and international publications. His photography work has been exhibited in Venice, Winnipeg [http://www.plugin.org/1999/archives_1999.html] , Los Angeles and was part of the travelling exhibition "Cities on the Move" [http://www.rama9art.org/citiesonthemove/] curated by Hou Hanru [http://www.sfai.edu/News/NewsDetail.aspx?newsID=1172&navID=214&sectionID=8] and Hans-Ulrich Obrist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Ulrich_Obrist] . In October 2004 his photos on the "Society of The And" were exhibited at Archilab The Naked City [http://www.archilab.org/public/2004/en/ft2004.html] curated by Bart Lootsma.