Tom Avermaete is Professor for the History and Theory of Urban Design at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. His research focuses on the architecture of the city and the changing roles, approaches and tools of architects and urban designers from a cross-cultural perspective. He is editor of OASE Architectural Journal, advisory board member of Architectural Theory Review and Docomomo Journal, and co-editor of the new series Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture(with Gosseye, Bloomsbury Academic). His recent book publications include Architecture of the Welfare State (with Swenarton and Van Den Heuvel, 2014), The Balcony (with Koolhaas, 2014), Casablanca – Chandigarh (with Casciato, 2015), Shopping Towns Europe (with Gosseye, 2017) and Acculturating the Shopping Centre (with Gosseye, 2018), The New Urban Condition: Criticism and Theory from Architecture and Urbanism (with Medrano and Recaman, 2021) and The Global Turn: Six Journeys of Architecture and the City, 1945 – 1989 (with Sabatino, 2021). He has curated the exhibitions: In the Desert of Modernity (Berlin, Casablanca, 2008, 2009), How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh (Montreal, 2015) and Lived-In: The Modern City as Performative Infrastructure (Antwerp, 2017) and SESC Stories: A Social Archive (Sao Paulo, 2019).