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Roemer van Toorn is an architect, freelance photographer, writer and professor of Architectural Theory at the School of Architecture, Umeå University.
Van Toorn is trained as an architect at the Technical University Delft, The Netherlands. He has written extensively about architecture, and has been photographing for more than 35 years. He was head of the history and theory program and of publications of the Berlage Institute, Postgraduate Laboratory of Architecture, Amsterdam, and co-founded the Berlage Institute PhD research school with the Delft School of Design (DSD) at the TU Delft, The Netherlands. Van Toorn taught at the Universität der Künste Berlin, St Lucas Brussels, and Ghent, while at the same time pursuing a career as an international lecturer, researcher, writer, curator, photographer, and regularly serving as an examiner and critic of architecture and urban design internationally. In 2022 he defended his PhD "Making architecture Politically. From Fresh Conservatism to Aesthetics as a Form of Politics," at the EKA School of Architecture, Estonia.
His work as researcher, writer, curator and photographer has been widely published internationally, while his photographic work has been exhibited in London, (Great Britain), Orleans (France), Winnipeg (Canada), Amsterdam, Rotterdam (Netherlands), and Los Angeles (USA).
His work as researcher, writer, curator and photographer has been widely published internationally, while his photographic work has been exhibited in London, (Great Britain), Orleans (France), Winnipeg (Canada), Amsterdam, Rotterdam (Netherlands), and Los Angeles (USA).
A list of his publications can be found at the Roemer van Toorn, Umeå University website (a Diva listing).