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Tahl Kaminer

Professor Tahl Kaminer

Reader in Architectural History and Theory

Welsh School of Architecture

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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

2023

2022

2021

2020

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

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

2013

2012

  • Heynen, H., Genard, J. L. and Kaminer, T. eds. 2012. Critical tools. Nethca. Brussels: La Lettre Volée.

2011

2008

Articles

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Books

Conferences

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

Email KaminerT@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone +44 29208 70939
Campuses Bute Building, Room Room 3.26, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3NB