Architect and urban designer, working as a senior lecturer at the Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design, at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (GTA) of the Departement of Architecture at the ETH in Zürich (Switzerland), where he teaches courses on the agency of architecture, urban planning and design facing the major challenges of contemporary cities like inequality, segregation, gentrification, and climate change. He leads the research group on the foundations of urban design, and is participating in the development of a new research project examining ‘architecture between worldmaking and coloniality’ in countries of the Global South. He writes book reviews on architecture, urban design, philosophy for the Dutch newspapers Nederlands Dagblad and Friesch Dagblad, and contributes regularly to the website ArchiNed and other (online) magazines on architecture and the city in The Netherlands.
Hans Teerds and Hans Ceelen, ‘Comeback’ (interview Norman Klein), ‘Gentrification’ (interview Cody Hochstenbach), ‘Homeless’ (interview Jennifer Wolch), ‘Race’ (interview Adrienne Brown), ‘Smaller Cities’ (interview Saskia Sassen), ‘Tech’ (interview Sharon Zukin), in: Désirée van Hoek,
Notes on Down Town. Los Angeles, 2007-2022
(Amsterdam, Désirée van Hoek, 2022)
Hans Teerds, ‘On Squares, Stairs, Paths, Plinths, Trees and Shade in Agadir’s Reconstructed Centre’, in: Tom Avermaete and Maxime Zaugg (eds.),
Agadir. Building the Modern Afropolis
(Zürich: Park Books, 2022)
Janina Gosseye and Hans Teerds, ‘Agadir’s Shifted Centralities’, in: Tom Avermaete and Maxime Zaugg (eds.),
Agadir. Building the Modern Afropolis
(Zürich: Park Books, 2022)
Klaske Havik and Hans Teerds, ‘Atmospheres and Sensus Communi’, in: Almunda Ribot, Enrique Espinosa, Diego Garcia-Setién, Begoña de Abajo and Gaizak Altuna (eds.),
Open City. Re-Thinking the Post-Industrial City
(New York/Barcelona, Actar, 2020)
Klaske Havik, ‘Define and Let Go. An Interview with John Habraken’, in: Maaike Lauwaert and Francien van Westrenen (eds.),
Facing Value, Radical Perspectives from the Arts
(Amsterdam/Den Haag, Valiz/Stroom, 2017)
Hans Teerds, ‘Within or Without the Four Walls. An Architectural Reading of Hannah Arendt's Reflections on the Private Realm,’ in: HA, The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, vol. 4 (2016)
Tom Avermaete and Hans Teerds, ‘The Roles of the Architect. Towards a Theory of Practice’ in: Salomon Frausto (ed.), Lexicon No 1, On the Role of the Architect (Delft, The Berlage, 2016)
Hans Teerds, ‘Rivierverruiming schenkt Nijmegen stadseiland,’ in: Blauwe Kamer, March 2016
Hans Teerds, ‘De academische status van het schetspotlood,’ in: Blauwe Kamer, June 2016
Hans Teerds, ‘Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and the Importance of the Interior’, in: HA, The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, vol. 3 (2015)
Hans Teerds,
‘Public Practices. Designing the World as Landscape’, in: Michiel Dehaene, Bruno Notteboom and Hans Teerds (eds.), Making Landscape Public, Making Public Landscape. OASE #93 (Rotterdam: nai010 publishers, 2014)
Hans Teerds, 'Tussen Wasserette en Parlement', in: Max Cohen De Lara, David Mulder, Willemijn Wilms Floet, and Marc Koehler, Ruimte voor Democratie (Den Haag: Pro Demos, 2011)
Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Johan Lagae, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, and Tom Vandeputte (eds).
Constructing Criticism, OASE#81
(Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2010)
