Christoph Grafe

Architect, curator and writer. Professor of Architecture History and Theory at the University of Wuppertal. From 2011 to 2017 he served as the director of the Flanders Architecture Institute in Antwerp. Visiting professorships at the University of Hasselt (Belgium) and Politecnico di Milano. His book People’s Palaces: Architecture, Culture and Democracy in
Post-War Western Europe was published by Architectura & Natura in 2014. Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Architecture (RIBA) and the advisory board of the Baukunstarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen. Editor of OASE and Eselsohren. Acted as interim city architect (with Bob van Reeth) in Antwerp in 2015. As director of the Flemish Architecture Institute he was responsible for the cabinet exhibition Microcosms in Antwerp in 2016.