Dr Tahl Kaminer
Reader in Architectural History and Theory
- kaminert@cardiff.ac.uk
- Room 3.26, Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3NB
- 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 lead the History and Theory Research and Scholarship Group at WSA. 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).
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). I have also edited three anthologies: 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
Speaking engagements
'Super Gentrification and Global Cities', KTH Stockholm (2019)
'Critique is Ordinary', University of West England (2018)
'Stealth Policy-Making in Planning and the "Productive" Imbroglio of Governance', Royal Geographic Society Conference , Cardiff (2018)
'Participation', Test Unit workshop, Glasgow (2018)
'In Defence of Spatial Planning', Rebuilding Architecture symposium, Yale University (2018)
'Von Ledoux bis Mies’, [Un]Timely Aesthetics symposium, University of Innsbruck (2017)
‘The Use of Commons in Urban Struggles’, Rethinking the Commons colloquium, Edinburgh (2017)
‘The City as Critical Stage’, Claim, Occupy, Create: Politics and Aesthetics of Urban Citizenship symposium, Edinburgh (2016)
'The Utopia of the Plan’, Utopian Urban Futures: Histories, Imaginations, Possibilities, Leeds (2016)
Publications
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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.
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.
Supervision
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/
Past projects
Co-supervisor for Ioanna Papadopoulou - Land Dispossession in Eastern Crete (2019)
Co-supervisor for Sarah Borree - Architecture and Photography: Making Architectural Meaning 1920-60 (2019)
Co-Supervisor for Laura Bowie - Space, Place and Identity: 1968 in West Berlin (2018).
Co-Supervisor for Edwar Calderon - The Functional City in Medellín, Colombia (2016).
Co-Supervisor for Maria Mitsoula - athens’ image-opsis: The Asperity of Attica’s Marble (2016).