T Avermaete

Biographic Data

ID4633766
NAMET Avermaete
GIVEN NAMEST
FAMILY NAMEAvermaete
SIGNATUREAVERMAETE T
AFFILIATIONSETH Zurich
ORCID0000-0001-7359-7475
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS18
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Ekistics data. Mapping Jaqueline Tyrwhitt’s abstracts of technical assistance, 1955–1972

    Open AccessMartin Kohlberger, Hannah Le Roux et al.ARTICLEPlanning Perspectives2025References: 6

    Working from the second row in first-row institutions - the United Nations, the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM), Harvard School of Design and more - the urban planner and academic Jaqueline Tyrwhitt was establishing an alternative knowledge network. 1957-1972 she edited the EKISTICS Journal, publishing more than 2000 reports and abstracts collected from grey publications by technical assistance actors at sites around the worl…

  • Introduction

    Cathelijne Nuijsink, T AvermaeteARTICLEArchitecture and Culture2024

    Mary Louise Pratt’s influential essay Arts of the Contact Zone (1991) reframes cultural production as a process of encounter, friction, and translation.1 She uses the term “contact zones” to descri

  • The German Mobile Exhibition – Collaboration and Paternalism in a Postcolonial Road Show

    Open AccessT Avermaete, Cathelijne NuijsinkARTICLEArchitecture and Culture2024

    The people of the Guinean city of Conakry must have stared in amazement when, in 1961, they saw twenty-four massive lorries drive into their central square. The lorries were installed in an instant

  • The Architectural Exhibition as Cross-Cultural Contact Zone

    Cathelijne Nuijsink, T Avermaete et al.ARTICLEArchitecture and Culture2024

    This issue of Architecture and Culture moves beyond more conventional analyses of architectural exhibitions to explore their role as dynamic sites where architectural ideas, perspectives and approa

  • Concrete Conflicts

    Open AccessF Abreek-Zubiedat, T AvermaeteARTICLEJournal of Urban History2022Cited by: 2

    Working within the field of architecture in conflict zones, this article discusses two construction projects that heavily relied on concrete in Gaza city to reveal a collision between concrete’s reformative capacity in processes of modernization and the Israeli occupier’s agenda of “reformation” by concrete. The Israeli-designed and constructed Sheikh Radwan neighborhood was intended to rehabilitate Palestinian refugees and was supposed to silenc…

  • Welfare landscapes between individuality and communality

    Lærke Sophie Keil, Svava Riesto et al.ARTICLELandscape Research2021Cited by: 2References: 6

    This article proposes the concept ‘welfare landscape’ to better understand post-war social housing in the context of contemporary renewal projects. We study of the iconic 1960s housing estate Albertslund Syd near Copenhagen as a welfare landscape and ask how it relates to two core values associated with welfare: communality and individual well-being. Examining architectural plans and the ways that people have used, lived in and understood this la…

  • Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya

    T AvermaeteARTICLEJournal of Design History2007Cited by: 12

  • Evaluation of publicity measures relating to the EU beef labelling system in Belgium

    Open AccessWim Verbeke, Ronald W Ward et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2002Cited by: 2References: 2