Klaske Havik is Professor of Architecture, Methods of Analysis and Imagination at Delft University of Technology.
She has developed a distinct research approach relating architectural and urban questions (such as the use, experience and imagination of place) to literary language. Her book “Urban Literacy. Reading and Writing Architecture” (2014, Spanish edition 2016) proposes a literary approach to architecture and urban regeneration, proposing the three notions description, transcription and prescription. Havik initiated the 2nd International Conference on Architecture and Fiction “Writingplace. Literary Methods in Architectural Research and Design” (TU Delft 2013), and the Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature. Havik writes regularly for architectural, literary and cultural magazines and was editor of the Dutch-Belgian peer reviewed architecture journal OASE. She co-edited, with Tom Avermaete and Hans Teerds, the anthology Architectural Positions: Architecture, Modernity and the Public Sphere, (SUN 2009). Havik’s literary work appeared in Dutch poetry collections and literary magazines. For her contribution to the architectural debate, she received the Dutch Architect of the Year Award in 2014. She was Visiting Professor of Architecture, Public Building at TU Tampere (Finland) in 2015-2017. Currently, Havik is Action Chair of the European COST network Writing Urban Places, New Narratives for the European City.