The Global Housing Study Centre is an international centre at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of Delft University of Technology that carries out education, research and outreach activities in the field of affordable housing worldwide. It is mainly focused on research and development of design features at the intermediate scale of dwelling practices: the housing cluster.

Its mission is to study how people interact with their living-environment in rapidly growing cities and to create tools, methods and strategies for affordable housing design that provide responsive approaches to local social and spatial practices.

The Global Housing Study Centre offers education at MSc level which is carried out by the Group of Architecture and Dwelling of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology. Researchers affiliated with the GHSC are also active in doctoral education available within the Graduate School for Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft.

Dick van Gameren is a full professor and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft, and a partner at Mecanoo Architecten. He has been combining his work as an architect in practice with education and research for many years, maintaining a critical approach to design by lecturing, researching, and publishing. In 2008, van Gameren founded the book series DASH (Delft Architectural Studies on Housing) and he is since then editor in chief. Ten years ago he started the TU Delft research and education group on Global Housing, an international network that focuses on the problems of building affordable housing in rapidly expanding cities. In 2007, van Gameren won the prestigious Aga Khan Award for the design of the Dutch Embassy in Ethiopia.

Contact

d.e.vanGameren@tudelft.nl

Frederique van Andel holds a Master’s degree in both urban planning and architecture from Delft University of Technology. She worked for Mecanoo architecten and DP6 architectuurstudio in Delft, and lived in Barcelona where she worked with architect Toni Gironès. Since 2006, Frederique is a researcher and lecturer in the Global Housing research group of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of TU Delft. Her main topic of interest is affordable housing for growing cities in the Global South. Frederique curated the exhibition ‘Global Housing – Affordable Dwellings for Growing Cities’ (2016) with venues in Delft and Addis Ababa. She is (managing) editor of the book series DASH (Delft Architectural Studies on Housing) and coordinates and edits the online Platform for Affordable Dwelling (PAD). Frederique teaches Master courses on Housing Design and acts as research mentor in the 'Honours Program Masters' of Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. She is project manager for the research project ‘Addis Ababa Living Lab: Creating Resilient Dwelling Clusters for Urban Resettlement in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’, funded by the Dutch Research Council and TU Delft (2019-2023).

Contact:

f.m.vanandel@tudelft.nl

Harald Mooij holds a Master’s degree in Architecture and Building Technology at Delft University of Technology. He worked for several architectural practices before starting his own firm in The Hague in 2015. Since 2006 Mooij is part-time lecturer at the Chair of Architecture and Dwelling, combining tutorship with research and publication. He co-authored the prize-winning international classic Housing Design – a manual, and was in charge of the related ‘dwellingbase’ – a digital database and search engine for contemporary housing design. He is co-editor and frequent author for DASH (Delft Architectural Studies on Housing). Mooij is coordinator and tutor in the Global Housing educational programmes addressing design and analysis of affordable housing schemes in cities like Addis Ababa, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad and Tema.

Contact:

h.a.f.mooij@tudelft.nl