Hans Teerds appointed lecturer at Amsterdam Academy of Architecture
Photography by Maaike Goedkoop
From the 1st of December 2024, Hans Teerds (1976) will start as lecturer at the Academy of Architecture. The Executive Board of the Amsterdam School of the Arts was delighted to appoint him. Within this new electorate, Hans will focus on the relationship between spatial design, social sustainability and climate change.
Hans Teerds is convinced that it is important to approach the topic of climate change and sustainability from a technical, material, spatial and design perspective, but also to consider the issue in a broader social perspective. The impact of climate change on the world not only challenges us to build with different materials, but can only be answered if we also include the social and spatial dimension of this challenge.
Hans is an architect and urban planner and works as a business developer at Benthem Crouwel Architects. He is also a visiting researcher at the Chair of History and Theory of Urbanism, at the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture (GTA) of the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.
In 2017, he received his PhD from Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) for a study on the public and political dimensions of architecture, using the writings of philosopher Hannah Arendt as a starting point.
He has lectured at various universities, conferences and other venues, including The Architectural Association (London), the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, The University of Toronto, The Hannah Arendt Centre for Politics and Humanities at Bard College and FAU-USP (São Paulo). He is also an editorial board member of the architecture journal OASE and a regular contributor to (online) journals on architecture and the city at home and abroad.
At the Academy of Architecture, we are looking forward to his arrival! Hans Teerds himself says about his appointment: ‘The Amsterdam Academy of Architecture has an excellent reputation for research and education at the intersection of theory and practice in the fields of architecture, urban design and landscape architecture. I am honoured to make my contribution to that in the coming years. Especially since the Academy is also fully engaged in integrating social and ecological challenges into education and research.’
In autumn 2025, Hans Teerds will deliver his inaugural speech at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture.