Christophe Van Gerrewey

Christophe Van Gerrewey (born 1982) is a Belgian architectural and literary theorist, writer and architect. He is currently tenure track professor for architectures, criticism, history and theory at the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).[1]

Career

Gerrewey studied architecture at Ghent University and literary science at KU Leuven, and completed a PhD on "Architecture a user manual. Theory, Critique and History since 1950" on the work of architecture critic Geert Bekaert.

Since 2015, Van Gerrewey leads as tenure track professor the laboratory of Architecture, Critique, History, and Theory (ACHT) at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He teaches architecture theory.

Awards

In 2000 he received the essay prize from Philosophy Magazine, in 2002 the Inter-Universitaire Prize Germania and in 2008 in Rotterdam the Prize for Young Art Competition in both the Review category and in the Essay category. His award-winning review '"Ignore is the greatest luxury" described the jury as a "beautifully clear and philosophically written piece". And with his essay "The future is that mountain" the jury was so impressed by his personal, intelligent and passionate pieces that she decided to reward him with both the prize for the best essay and the prize for the best review.

Literary works

In 2010 a collection of stories 'Five disease stories' was published. And in 2012 he published his debut novel "Op de hoogte" in Antwerp[2], a novel in letter form about love lost. In 2013 he received the Debuutprijs from boek.be for this, in 2014 the literary prize for East Flanders and in 2016 the "European Union Literature Prize 2016".[3] In 2013 his second novel "Train with delay" also appeared. In 2015, the essay collection "Over everything and for everyone" followed. In 2017 his novel "Werk Werk Werk" was published by Polis.[4]

Theoretic works

His texts on architecture, literature, performing arts and visual arts have appeared in magazines such as De Witte Raaf, Etcetera, Ons Erfdeel, De Leeswolf, Domus, De Brakke Dog, De Gids, nY, A +, NRC Handelsblad, Streven, Rekto: Verso, The Architect, The Reactor and Metropolis M. He is a member of the editorial board of the art and architectural magazine De Witte Raaf.[5]

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References
  1. Maillard, Nadja (2015-09-15). "Nouveau professeur en architecture" (in French). Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "Op de hoogte". De Bezige Bij (in Dutch). 2013-10-10. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  3. "Christophe Van Gerrewey — European Union Prize for Literature". www.euprizeliterature.eu. Archived from the original on 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  4. "Werk werk werk". Polis (in Dutch). Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  5. "De Witte Raaf". www.dewitteraaf.be. Retrieved 2020-08-11.



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