Klaske Havik (Netherlands)

Klaske Havik is Professor of Methods of Analysis and Imagination at Delft University of Technology. Her book Urban Literacy. Reading and Writing Architecture (2014) relates architectural and urban questions, such as the use, experience and imagination of place, to literary language. She edited Writingplace, Investigations in Architecture and Literature (2016), and initiated the Writingplace journal and the European research network Writing Urban Places. Havik’s literary work appeared in Dutch literary magazines; her poetry collection Way and Further appeared in English in 2021. In 2022, she received an honorary doctorate from Tampere University, Finland, in recognition of her contribution to the study of

architectural writing. Klaske Havik has been visiting Estonia regularly since 1998. She lectured at the Estonian Art Academy in Tallinn and was part of its thesis board. She also wrote for architecture journals Maja and Ehituskunst.