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Professor Tahl Kaminer
Reader in Architectural History and Theory
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
Responsibilities
I am currently the module leader for H&T Architecture in Context and contribute to several modules in UG and PG. I am a Senate member. Overall, my responsibilites include research; UG &PG teaching; PhD supervision.
Reviews
Reviewer for Bloomsbury and Taylor & Francis publishers; for journals such as Architecture & Culture, Architectural Theory Review, Built Environment, Charrette, CITY, Cities, Drawing On, Footprint, Journal of Urban Design.
Key past activities
Former Director of Research at WSA; Senate member, University of Edinburgh; Research Director, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture; co-director of the Edinburgh Global Justice Academy; director of Edinburgh Old Town Development Trust; production editor of Footprint; board member of 66 East, Centre for Urban Culture (Amsterdam).
Publication
2024
- Kaminer, T. 2024. The subjugation to contingency: Popper, postructuralism, and fear of the plan. Planning Perspectives (10.1080/02665433.2024.2404674)
- Kaminer, T. 2024. Autonomy, criticality and the Avant-Garde. In: Lu, D. ed. The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 162-172.
2023
- Kaminer, T. 2023. London, Revanchist City. Presented at: Urbanizing Suburbia at EKA, Tallinn, Estonia, 21 November 2023.
- Kaminer, T., Ma, L. and Runting, H. eds. 2023. Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City. Jovis.
- Kaminer, T. 2023. The normalization of Thamesmead: Part B. In: Kaminer, T., Ma, L. and Runting, H. eds. Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City. Berlin: Jovis, pp. 320-327.
- Kaminer, T. 2023. The normalization of Thamesmead: Part A. In: Kaminer, T., Ma, L. and Runting, H. eds. Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City. Berlin: Jovis, pp. 235-241.
- Kaminer, T. and Bunnik, P. 2023. The view from the city - Amsterdam Noord, self-build, and Broedplaats. In: Kaminer, T., Ma, L. and Runting, H. eds. Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City. Berlin: Jovis, pp. 81-88.
- Nycolaas, F. and Kaminer, T. 2023. The View From the City - Vision 2050 and the Niewe-West. In: Ma, L., Runting, H. and Kaminer, T. eds. Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City. Berlin: Jovis, pp. 89-95.
- Kaminer, T., Ma, L. and Runting, H. 2023. Suburbia transfigured. In: Kaminer, T., Ma, L. and Runting, H. eds. Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City. Jovis, pp. 6-23.
- 2023. Urbanizing Suburbia at Konsthall C: Book release, talks and film screenings. Presented at: Urbanizing Suburbia at Konsthall C: Book release, talk and film screenings, 24-25 November 2023 Presented at Kaminer, T., Ma, L. and Runting, H. eds.Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City. JOVIS
- Kaminer, T. 2023. Non-design: Architecture, liberalism and the market [Book Review]. Planning Perspectives 38(2), pp. 457-460. (10.1080/02665433.2023.2179262)
- Kaminer, T. 2023. 'The spontaneous (neoliberal) city'. Presented at: Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, 30 August - 01 September 2023.
- Kaminer, T. 2023. The fascist city. Presented at: Relational Imaginaries of Antifascism and the Far-right, 23 June 2023.
- Kaminer, T. 2023. "Creative" regeneration and the dissipation of Amsterdam's suburbs. In: Kaminer, T., Ma, L. and Runting, H. eds. Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City. Jovis, pp. 64-80.
- Kaminer, T. 2023. The transformation of London's outer city. In: Kaminer, T., Ma, L. and Runting, H. eds. Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City. Jovis, pp. 174-189.
2022
- Kaminer, T. 2022. Collectivity and privacy in housing: path dependencies and limited choices. In: Bobic, N. and Haghighi, F. eds. The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume I., Vol. 1. New York; London: Routledge, pp. 301-315.
- Kaminer, T. 2022. Postscript: towards a critical historiography of gentrification. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 26(2-3), pp. 542-552. (10.1080/13604813.2022.2058821)
- Kaminer, T. 2022. The regeneration of the River Lea Valley and the restructuring of London. Presented at: State of the Legacy: Interrogating a Decade of ‘Olympic Regeneration’, 12-13 September 2022.
- Kaminer, T. 2022. Trapped in the present: planning, architecture and postmodern time. Antinomies 22(3), pp. 119-135. (10.17506/26867206_2022_22_3_119)
2021
- Adams, R. E. et al. 2021. Hyper-gentrification and the urbanisation of suburbia. In: Lewis, P., Holm, L. and Santos, S. C. eds. Architecture and Collective Life. London, UK: Taylor and Francis, pp. 8., (10.4324/9781003118985-9)
- Kaminer, T. 2021. The Emaciation of Planning: Dirigisme, May ’68, and Anti-Statism. In: Tapia, C. and Mannisi, A. eds. ReciprociUdad: Design Diplomacy in Seville. Malaga, Spain: Recolectores Urbanos Editorial, pp. 49-63.
2020
- Kaminer, T., Bernstein, M. and Sebastian Fitzner, . 2020. Reviews Fall 2020. Architectural Histories 8(1), article number: 21. (10.5334/ah.559)
- Kahana, F. and Kaminer, T. 2020. Privatizing collectivity: the transformation of the social and spatial forms of the kibbutz. The International Journal of Design in Society 14(2), pp. 39-54. (10.18848/2325-1328/CGP/v14i02/39-54)
- kaminer, T. 2020. 'Architecture and Crisis'. Presented at: Architecture, Arts and Society Lecture Series, 18 December 2020.
- Kaminer, T. 2020. 'If They Live Like Us, They Will Become Like Us'. Presented at: London Festival of Architecture Symposium, Virtual, 30 June 2020.
2019
- Kaminer, T. 2019. Governance and climate crisis: Architecture, the local and the global. Log@ Overcoming Carbon Form 1547-4690(47), article number: 11.
- Kaminer, T. 2019. The city as critical stage. Presented at: Spaces of Conflict, Kent, Ohio, USA, 25 October 2019.
- Kaminer, T. 2019. Von Ledoux bis Mies: The modern plinth as isolating element. arq: Architectural Research Quarterly 23(1), pp. 21-32. (10.1017/S1359135519000083)
- Kaminer, T. 2019. Democracy and informal policy-making: Planning appeals in Scotland. Town Planning Review 90(1), pp. 81-98. (10.3828/tpr.2019.6)
- Kaminer, T. 2019. Super-gentrification and global cities. Presented at: KTH Talk, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2019. pp. -.
- Kaminer, T. 2019. The normalisation of Thamesmead. Presented at: AHRA Conference, Architecture and Collective Life, Dundee, UK, 21-23 November 2019.
2018
- Kaminer, T. 2018. On critique. Presented at: Ibstock Lecture, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, 27 September 2018.
- Kaminer, T. 2018. Radical democracy and spatial practices. In: Farhan, K. ed. The Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement. New York, London: Routledge, pp. 37-45.
- Kaminer, T. 2018. In defence of spatial planning. Presented at: Rebuilding Architecture, Yale, New Haven, CT, USA, 25-27 January 2018.
2017
- Kaminer, T. 2017. Planning and non-planning. Presented at: Monthly Monday talk, Kulttuurisauna, Helsinki, November 2017.
- Kaminer, T. 2017. Von Ledoux. Presented at: [Un]Timely Aesthetics, Innsbruck, Austria, 1-2 June 2017.
- Kaminer, T. 2017. The use of commons in urban struggles. Presented at: Rethinking the Commons: Examining Dilemmas, Exploring Solutions, Edinburgh, UK, 27 April 2017.
2016
- Kaminer, T. 2016. The efficacy of architecture: Political contestation and agency. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (10.4324/9781315693750)
- Kaminer, T. 2016. The utopia of the plan. Presented at: Utopian Urban Futures: Histories, Imaginations, Possibilities, Leeds, UK, 27-28 June 2016.
- Kaminer, T. 2016. Aesthetics, politics, city. Presented at: Claim, Occupy, Create: Politics and Aesthetics of Urban Citizenship, Edinburgh, UK, 17 June 2016.
- Kaminer, T. 2016. Capital A. In: Cayer, A. et al. eds. Asymmetric Labors: The Economy of Architecture in Theory and Practice. The Architecture Lobby, pp. 17-22.
2015
- Kaminer, T. 2015. The crisis of the plan and the post-Fordist city. In: Lichenko, M. and Martyanova, V. eds. Postfordism: Concepts, Institutions , Practices. [Постфордизм: концепции, институты, практики]. Moscow: Rosspen, pp. 137-156.
2014
- Kaminer, T. 2014. The contradictions of participatory architecture and empire. Architectural Research Quarterly 18(1), pp. 31-37. (10.1017/S135913551400027X)
2013
- Kaminer, T. 2013. In search of architectural efficacy: Debate and experimentation after May ‘68. In: Wagner, A. and Jeinic, A. eds. Is There an (Anti-)Neoliberal Architecture?. architektur + analyse Vol. 3. Berlin: Jovis, pp. 46-61.
- Kaminer, T. and Krivy, M. eds. 2013. Footprint Issue 13: Autumn 2013: The participatory turn in urbanism. Delft: Footprint Journal. (10.7480/footprint.7.2)
2012
- Heynen, H., Genard, J. L. and Kaminer, T. eds. 2012. Critical tools. Nethca. Brussels: La Lettre Volée.
2011
- Kaminer, T., Sohn, H. and Robles-Duran, M. eds. 2011. Urban asymmetries: Studies and projects on neoliberal urbanization. DSD Series. Rotterdam: 010 Uitgeverij.
- Kaminer, T. 2011. Architecture, crisis and resuscitation: The reproduction of post-Fordism in late-twentieth-century architecture. London and New York: Routledge.
2008
- , . Berg, J. et al. eds. 2008. Houses in transformation: Interventions in European gentrification. Rotterdam: NAi.
Articles
- Kaminer, T. 2024. The subjugation to contingency: Popper, postructuralism, and fear of the plan. Planning Perspectives (10.1080/02665433.2024.2404674)
- Kaminer, T. 2023. Non-design: Architecture, liberalism and the market [Book Review]. Planning Perspectives 38(2), pp. 457-460. (10.1080/02665433.2023.2179262)
- Kaminer, T. 2022. Postscript: towards a critical historiography of gentrification. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 26(2-3), pp. 542-552. (10.1080/13604813.2022.2058821)
- Kaminer, T. 2022. Trapped in the present: planning, architecture and postmodern time. Antinomies 22(3), pp. 119-135. (10.17506/26867206_2022_22_3_119)
- Kaminer, T., Bernstein, M. and Sebastian Fitzner, . 2020. Reviews Fall 2020. Architectural Histories 8(1), article number: 21. (10.5334/ah.559)
- Kahana, F. and Kaminer, T. 2020. Privatizing collectivity: the transformation of the social and spatial forms of the kibbutz. The International Journal of Design in Society 14(2), pp. 39-54. (10.18848/2325-1328/CGP/v14i02/39-54)
- Kaminer, T. 2019. Governance and climate crisis: Architecture, the local and the global. Log@ Overcoming Carbon Form 1547-4690(47), article number: 11.
- Kaminer, T. 2019. Von Ledoux bis Mies: The modern plinth as isolating element. arq: Architectural Research Quarterly 23(1), pp. 21-32. (10.1017/S1359135519000083)
- Kaminer, T. 2019. Democracy and informal policy-making: Planning appeals in Scotland. Town Planning Review 90(1), pp. 81-98. (10.3828/tpr.2019.6)
- Kaminer, T. 2014. The contradictions of participatory architecture and empire. Architectural Research Quarterly 18(1), pp. 31-37. (10.1017/S135913551400027X)
Book sections
- Kaminer, T. 2024. Autonomy, criticality and the Avant-Garde. In: Lu, D. ed. The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 162-172.
- Kaminer, T. 2023. The normalization of Thamesmead: Part B. In: Kaminer, T., Ma, L. and Runting, H. eds. Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City. Berlin: Jovis, pp. 320-327.
- Kaminer, T. 2023. The normalization of Thamesmead: Part A. In: Kaminer, T., Ma, L. and Runting, H. eds. Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City. Berlin: Jovis, pp. 235-241.
- Kaminer, T. and Bunnik, P. 2023. The view from the city - Amsterdam Noord, self-build, and Broedplaats. In: Kaminer, T., Ma, L. and Runting, H. eds. Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City. Berlin: Jovis, pp. 81-88.
- Nycolaas, F. and Kaminer, T. 2023. The View From the City - Vision 2050 and the Niewe-West. In: Ma, L., Runting, H. and Kaminer, T. eds. Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City. Berlin: Jovis, pp. 89-95.
- Kaminer, T., Ma, L. and Runting, H. 2023. Suburbia transfigured. In: Kaminer, T., Ma, L. and Runting, H. eds. Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City. Jovis, pp. 6-23.
- Kaminer, T. 2023. "Creative" regeneration and the dissipation of Amsterdam's suburbs. In: Kaminer, T., Ma, L. and Runting, H. eds. Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City. Jovis, pp. 64-80.
- Kaminer, T. 2023. The transformation of London's outer city. In: Kaminer, T., Ma, L. and Runting, H. eds. Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City. Jovis, pp. 174-189.
- Kaminer, T. 2022. Collectivity and privacy in housing: path dependencies and limited choices. In: Bobic, N. and Haghighi, F. eds. The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume I., Vol. 1. New York; London: Routledge, pp. 301-315.
- Adams, R. E. et al. 2021. Hyper-gentrification and the urbanisation of suburbia. In: Lewis, P., Holm, L. and Santos, S. C. eds. Architecture and Collective Life. London, UK: Taylor and Francis, pp. 8., (10.4324/9781003118985-9)
- Kaminer, T. 2021. The Emaciation of Planning: Dirigisme, May ’68, and Anti-Statism. In: Tapia, C. and Mannisi, A. eds. ReciprociUdad: Design Diplomacy in Seville. Malaga, Spain: Recolectores Urbanos Editorial, pp. 49-63.
- Kaminer, T. 2018. Radical democracy and spatial practices. In: Farhan, K. ed. The Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement. New York, London: Routledge, pp. 37-45.
- Kaminer, T. 2016. Capital A. In: Cayer, A. et al. eds. Asymmetric Labors: The Economy of Architecture in Theory and Practice. The Architecture Lobby, pp. 17-22.
- Kaminer, T. 2015. The crisis of the plan and the post-Fordist city. In: Lichenko, M. and Martyanova, V. eds. Postfordism: Concepts, Institutions , Practices. [Постфордизм: концепции, институты, практики]. Moscow: Rosspen, pp. 137-156.
- Kaminer, T. 2013. In search of architectural efficacy: Debate and experimentation after May ‘68. In: Wagner, A. and Jeinic, A. eds. Is There an (Anti-)Neoliberal Architecture?. architektur + analyse Vol. 3. Berlin: Jovis, pp. 46-61.
Books
- Kaminer, T., Ma, L. and Runting, H. eds. 2023. Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City. Jovis.
- Kaminer, T. 2016. The efficacy of architecture: Political contestation and agency. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (10.4324/9781315693750)
- Kaminer, T. and Krivy, M. eds. 2013. Footprint Issue 13: Autumn 2013: The participatory turn in urbanism. Delft: Footprint Journal. (10.7480/footprint.7.2)
- Heynen, H., Genard, J. L. and Kaminer, T. eds. 2012. Critical tools. Nethca. Brussels: La Lettre Volée.
- Kaminer, T., Sohn, H. and Robles-Duran, M. eds. 2011. Urban asymmetries: Studies and projects on neoliberal urbanization. DSD Series. Rotterdam: 010 Uitgeverij.
- Kaminer, T. 2011. Architecture, crisis and resuscitation: The reproduction of post-Fordism in late-twentieth-century architecture. London and New York: Routledge.
- , . Berg, J. et al. eds. 2008. Houses in transformation: Interventions in European gentrification. Rotterdam: NAi.
Conferences
- Kaminer, T. 2023. London, Revanchist City. Presented at: Urbanizing Suburbia at EKA, Tallinn, Estonia, 21 November 2023.
- 2023. Urbanizing Suburbia at Konsthall C: Book release, talks and film screenings. Presented at: Urbanizing Suburbia at Konsthall C: Book release, talk and film screenings, 24-25 November 2023 Presented at Kaminer, T., Ma, L. and Runting, H. eds.Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City. JOVIS
- Kaminer, T. 2023. 'The spontaneous (neoliberal) city'. Presented at: Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, 30 August - 01 September 2023.
- Kaminer, T. 2023. The fascist city. Presented at: Relational Imaginaries of Antifascism and the Far-right, 23 June 2023.
- Kaminer, T. 2022. The regeneration of the River Lea Valley and the restructuring of London. Presented at: State of the Legacy: Interrogating a Decade of ‘Olympic Regeneration’, 12-13 September 2022.
- kaminer, T. 2020. 'Architecture and Crisis'. Presented at: Architecture, Arts and Society Lecture Series, 18 December 2020.
- Kaminer, T. 2020. 'If They Live Like Us, They Will Become Like Us'. Presented at: London Festival of Architecture Symposium, Virtual, 30 June 2020.
- Kaminer, T. 2019. The city as critical stage. Presented at: Spaces of Conflict, Kent, Ohio, USA, 25 October 2019.
- Kaminer, T. 2019. Super-gentrification and global cities. Presented at: KTH Talk, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2019. pp. -.
- Kaminer, T. 2019. The normalisation of Thamesmead. Presented at: AHRA Conference, Architecture and Collective Life, Dundee, UK, 21-23 November 2019.
- Kaminer, T. 2018. On critique. Presented at: Ibstock Lecture, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, 27 September 2018.
- Kaminer, T. 2018. In defence of spatial planning. Presented at: Rebuilding Architecture, Yale, New Haven, CT, USA, 25-27 January 2018.
- Kaminer, T. 2017. Planning and non-planning. Presented at: Monthly Monday talk, Kulttuurisauna, Helsinki, November 2017.
- Kaminer, T. 2017. Von Ledoux. Presented at: [Un]Timely Aesthetics, Innsbruck, Austria, 1-2 June 2017.
- Kaminer, T. 2017. The use of commons in urban struggles. Presented at: Rethinking the Commons: Examining Dilemmas, Exploring Solutions, Edinburgh, UK, 27 April 2017.
- Kaminer, T. 2016. The utopia of the plan. Presented at: Utopian Urban Futures: Histories, Imaginations, Possibilities, Leeds, UK, 27-28 June 2016.
- Kaminer, T. 2016. Aesthetics, politics, city. Presented at: Claim, Occupy, Create: Politics and Aesthetics of Urban Citizenship, Edinburgh, UK, 17 June 2016.
Research
My main research studies the relation of architecture to society - the manner in which the discipline of architecture is determined by society, economics and politics, and the manner in which architecture has agency, shaping, to a degree, society. A second line of research focuses on urbanism and critical urban practices.
Teaching
Currently module leader for H&T Architecture in Context. I have taught and led UG, PGT modules at Cardiff University, the University of Edinburgh and TU Delft.
Biography
I joined the Welsh School of Architecture in summer 2018. I have previously held academic positions at the University of Edinburgh and TU Delft. I have published two monographs: The Efficacy of Architecture (2017, Routledge) and Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation (2011, Routledge), and edited four anthologies: Urbanizing Suburbia (2023), Urban Asymmetries (2011, 010), Critical Tools (La Lettre Volee, 2012) and Houses in Transformation (2008, NAi), and was a founding editor of the academic journal Footprint and its managing editor from 2007-12.
Academic positions
2018 - present: Cardiff University
2012 - 2018: University of Edinburgh
2004 - 2012: TU Delft
Supervisions
Areas of interest:
Theoretical and historical research of architecture since 1945.
Cases that illuminate the relation of architecture to society.
Cases that identify a relation of spatial to social form.
Alternative and counter-hegemonic forms of architecture and urbanism.
Critical urbanism.
For PhD funding opportunities, please see https://www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/ and https://gw4.ac.uk/
Contact Details
KaminerT@cardiff.ac.uk
+44 29208 70939
Bute Building, Room Room 3.26, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3NB
+44 29208 70939
Bute Building, Room Room 3.26, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3NB