Roemer van Toorn

Roemer van Toorn (1960) is an architect, critic, photographer, and exhibition curator in the fields of architecture, urbanism, and art. After graduating from the Uiversity of Technology Delft, he published The Invisible in Architecture in 1994, in collaboration with Ole Bouman; in this acclaimed encyclopedic manifest he dissects the varied range of cultural, economic,political and philosophic outlook within the contemporary architectural discourse with the aim of outlining different positions and issues of today’s architecture. As a teacher, he runs and coordinates the Projective Theory program as well as the Advanced PhD research at the Berlage Institute together with Wiel Arets and Alejandro Zaera-Polo, at the same time pursuing a career as an international lecturer. He has several times been co-editor of the annual publication The yearbook of Architecture in the Netherlands, as well as being an advisor of the magazine Archis and Domus, and, as an author and photographer, he also contributes to many other publications. As a photographer, his work The Rise of the Megacity was exhibited in the Plug In ICA Gallery, Winnipeg and part of the traveling exhibition Cities on the Move curated by Hou Hanru and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. In 2004 his photos on the Society of The And were exhibited at the Archilab exhibition “The Naked City” curated by Bart Lootsma, Orleans, France. Forthcoming is his photobook Society of the And (Spring 2005) and In Search of Freedom in Contemporary Architecture: From Fresh Conservatism to Radical Democracy" (Spring 2006).