Prof. Jürgen Rosemann

Urbanism (U) | Urban Renewal and Management
Chair of Urban Renewal and management 

Between 1982 and 2010 Jürgen Rosemann held a professorship at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology. In this framework he was dean of the faculty, director of the RIW research institute, head of the department of Housing and Urban Renewal, founding member of the Netherlands Graduate School for Housing and Urban Research (NETHUR), member of the board of OTB-Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies and member of the educational board of the European Postgraduate Master in Urbanism (EMU). After his retirement from the chair Urban Renewal and Management in the Department of Urbanism (2007) he became special representative of the faculty for international collaboration and exchange in the field of Urbanism.

Between 1995 and 2010 he was member of the Board of Governors, later Board of Supervisors, of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. From 2000 he served as chairman of this institution.

Recently he is visiting professor at the School of Design & Environment, National University of Singapore. Besides, he is chairman of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) and president of the Board of Supervisors of Beijing Institute of Sustanable Housing and Urban Renewal (BISHUR).

His publications have appeard in the fields of globalization, urban transformation, renewal and management, housing and sustainable urban development. At present he is working about urban prototyping and about new waves in Asian architecture and urbanism.