Taneha K. Bacchin

Taneha K. Bacchin is an architect, researcher, and educator working at the intersection of urban design, landscape architecture, and the environmental humanities. She is Associate Professor of Urban Design and Critical Theory at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment.

Her research and teaching explore the nexus between space, ecology, culture, and politics in the design of places undergoing radical transformation through climate disruption, extreme events, large-scale extractivism, resource depletion, and shifting urban frontiers. Her work advances situated, trans-scalar, and justice-oriented approaches to urban and territorial design, engaging both the material and cultural dimensions of socio-ecological fragility. Taneha’s current projects investigate transitional territories through concepts such as temporal ethics, material and political ecologies, bridging critical theory with applied design practice. She leads international collaborations across the North Sea, the Arctic, Brazil, and India, positioning design as a discipline of integration, translation, and repair.

She is Programme Leader of the multi-annual Water4Change Research Programme (NWO–DST India–Netherlands), Director of the UNDP Archipelago Project on socio-environmental planning under extremes in the Jacuí Delta/ Porto Alegre, and Theme Leader for “Design, Planning and Governance of the Built Environment” within the TU Delft–Brazil R&D Initiative. She also serves on the Scientific Committee on Climate Adaptation and Resilience of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2002, 2018), the São Paulo Architecture Biennale (2013, 2025), and the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (2022). Her research is supported by leading international funding bodies and reflects a continuous engagement with critical theory, experimental pedagogy, and territorial practice in contexts of environmental uncertainty and transformation.

Affiliated Faculty

Luisa Calabrese, Urban Design

Diego Sepúlveda, Spatial Planning and Strategy

Francesca Rizzeto, Urban Design

Luca Iuorio, Environmental Technology and Design

Daniela Maiullari, Environmental Technology and Design

Alex Wandl, Environmental Technology and Design

Thomas Verbeek, Urban Studies

Daniele Cannatella, Urban Data Science

Denise Piccinini, Landscape Architecture

Angela Rout, Data Design Society

Javier Arpa, Building Audiences

Remon Rooij, Spatial Planning and Strategy

Joep Storm, Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Víctor Muñoz Sanz

Víctor Muñoz Sanz is an assistant professor of urban design at the Department of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft. He conceptualises, leads, and develops critical research on the architecture and urbanism of the past, present, and future of work. Specifically, his work looks at the interplay of the design of productive landscapes with technology and management, and aims to question the role of urban design in enabling new urban economies and inclusive forms of employment.

He is the author of the books Reconnecting Cities, People and Nature: Exercises in Urban Design (with Robbert Jan van der Veen; Birkhäuser, 2025) and Una Rápida Compañera: Arquitectura y Trabajo en la Cuarta Era de la Maquina [In Fast Company: Architecture and Labor in the Fourth Machine Age] (Bartlebooth, 2024), and Foundries of the Future: A Guide for 21st Century Cities of Making (with Cities of Making; TU Delft Open, 2020), and co-editor of Automated Landscapes (Nieuwe Instituut, 2023), Roadside Picnics: Encounters with the Uncanny (dpr Barcelona, 2022), Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture (nai010, 2022), and Extreme Urbanism vol. 1 and 2 (with Rahul Mehrotra; Harvard GSD, 2011 and 2012).

Víctor qualified as an architect at the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM, 2006), and holds a master of architecture in urban design, with distinction, from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2011), and a PhD cum laude in architecture from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2016).

Nikos Katsikis

Nikos Katsikis is an assistant professor of urban design at the Department of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft. He works at the intersection of urbanization theory, territorial design, and geospatial analysis. His research seeks to contribute to a geographical understanding of the socio-metabolic relations between cities and their “operational landscapes:” non-city landscapes of primary production, circulation and waste disposal that support urban life. He holds graduate degrees in Architecture and Spatial Design from the National Technical University of Athens (2006, 2008) and a Doctor of Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2016). Before joining TU Delft, Nikos was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg (LU), and Research Tutor at the Royal College of Arts (UK). At Harvard GSD he was lecturer at the Department of Urban Planning and Design, and research and teaching associate at New Geographies Lab and Urban Theory Lab, where he also served on the editorial board of the New Geographies journal. Nikos is co-editor of New Geographies 06: Grounding Metabolism, and the volume Positions on Emancipation, as well as co-author of the book Manhattan: Grid for Ordering an Island. His recent work includes contributions in Anthropocene Review, Architectural Design (AD), Technospheres, Harvard Design Magazine, New Geographies and MONU; book chapters in Implosions / Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (ed. Neil Brenner); Doing Global Urban Research (ed. Michael Hoyler); The Horizontal Metropolis (ed. Paola Vigano); and the forthcoming books (with Urban Theory Lab) Data-spheres of Planetary Urbanization, and Environments of Planetary Urbanization.