Architecture critic and historian. Member of the jury and, previously, of the expert committee of the Prize.
Director and editor of The Architecture Observer (Amsterdam/Montreal), he combines his post as lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at Toronto University with his career as an architecture critic and historian. Until 2012 he was director and editor of A10 new European architecture, a European journal he set up in 2004 jointly with the designer Arjan Groot.
His books include Supermodernism: Architecture in the Age of Globalization (NAi Publishers, 1998), European Architecture Since 1890 (Sun, 2011), Rise and Sprawl: The Condominiumization of Toronto (Ibelings, 2016) and Make It Anew (Ibelings, 2018).
He has been part of the prize jury since 2016 and was a member of the expert committee in 2010 and in 2012.
Last updated: January 2019