Starting on 1 December 2024, Hans Teerds (1976) will take up the role of professor at the Academy of Architecture. The Executive Board of the Amsterdam University of the Arts was delighted to appoint him. Within this new research group Hans will focus on the relationship between spatial design, social durability, and climate change. 

Hans Teerds considers it important to approach the topic of climate change and sustainability from a technical, material, spatial, and design perspective, but also to think through the issue in a broader perspective. The impact of climate change on the world not only challenges us to build with different materials, but can only be answered if we also include the social and spatial dimension of this challenge. 

Hans is an architect and urban designer and works as a business developer at Benthem Crouwel Architects. He is also a guest researcher at the Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design, at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (GTA) of the Department of Architecture at the ETH Zürich. 

In 2017, he obtained his PhD at the Delft University of Technology on a study to the public and political dimension of architecture, examined through the lens of the writings of philosopher Hannah Arendt. 

He has lectured at various universities, conferences, and other venues, including The Architectural Association (London), the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, The University of Toronto, The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, and FAU-USP (São Paulo). 

Hans Teerds is member of the editorial board of the architectural journal OASE, and contributes regularly to (online) magazines and journals on architecture and the city in The Netherlands and abroad.

At the Academy of Architecture, we look forward to seeing him! Hans Teerds about his new position: ‘The Amsterdam Academy of Architecture has an excellent reputation for research and education at the intersection of theory and practice in the fields of architecture, urban design and landscape architecture. I am honoured to be able to contribute to this in the coming years. All the more so because the Academy is fully engaged with integrating social and ecological challenges into their education and research.'

Hans Teerds will deliver his acceptance speech at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture at end of 2025.