My essay "Dwelling in the Middle Landscape: Rethinking the Architecture of Rural Communities at CIAM 10" was recently included in Re-Humanizing Architecture: New Forms of Community, 1950-1970, a book edited by Ákos Moravánszky and Judith Hopfengärtner, published by Birkhauser in December 2016.
This is the first volume of a series dedicated to investigate architectural production in the aftermath of the Second World War.

From the publisher:
​A divided Europe was much affected by a period of reconstruction. This was influenced by the different political systems – in the socialist East and in the capitalist West, the focus was on cohesion in society and its cultural and architectural expression. In parallel to the rapidly progressing industrialization of the building industry, debates on the humanization of the built environment were led on both sides with great intensity. The volume shows how, on the back of existentialism, new monumentality, and socialist realism, quite similar concepts and strategies were developed in order to find answers to questions relating to adequate structures for new forms of community and identity.

On Monday 18 July I will deliver the paper “Sites and Services in Performance: Housing in Addis Ababa Beyond Crisis and Heroism” at the 17th IPHS Conference, convened by Professor Carola Hein and organized by The International Planning History Society (IPHS).
The 17th IPHS Conference will be held in Delft, The Netherlands, from July 17 to 21, 2016.
The theme of the conference is ‘History – Urbanism – Resilience’.
My paper will be presented in the Session "Housing Production", moderated by Florian Urban.
My paper delivers a critical account on development aid policies based on affordable housing solutions underpinned by the concept of incremental growth. Using documentation gathered in empirical research on housing figures built in Addis Ababa from the 1974 revolution on, I will compare the Nefas Silk sites and services settlement with a housing figure promoted in the 1980s by the Norwegian non-governmental agency Redd Barna (Save the Children) and a housing programme developed in the mid-2000s by the Ethiopian government with technical support provided by the German international cooperation agency, GTZ.

On 1 July I will deliver the paper “Banks, Sweat and Shelter in Addis Ababa: Sites and Services in Performance” at the No Cost Housing Conference, hosted and organized by the ETH Wohnforum—ETH CASE at the ONA Building of ETH Zurich in Zurich-Oerlikon.
The two-day conference is developed in collaboration with the Hub on Informal Urbanism of UNI (UN-Habitat’s Partnership with Universities Worldwide). 
My paper will be presented in the thematic Paper Session "Community Based Housing Strategies", moderated by Dr. Jennifer Duyne (UN-Habitat) & Dr. Marie Glaser (ETH Wohnforum-ETH CASE).
My paper aims at examining the nexus between design decisions and the performance of a site and services settlement through time. I will discuss the case of the Nefas Silk sites and services settlement, a World Bank-funded project with approximately 3500 serviced plots developed in Addis Ababa in the 1980s.
The results and insights of the conference will lead to a joint statement, submitted to the executive office in preparation of Habitat III in Quito (17.—20. October).

The article I wrote together with Klaske Havik, “Designing for Simultaneity: Negotiating domestic, social and productive practices in Addis Ababa.” was recently published in the issue 95 of OASE – Journal for Architecture. 
In this article we discuss the organization and outcomes of the ‘Global Housing’ studio of TU Delft in collaboration with EiABC of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 
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This issue of OASE, edited by Tom Avermaete, Viviana d’Auria, Klaske Havik, and Lidewij Lenders, is dedicated to the theme "Crossing Boundaries: Transcultural Practices in Architecture and Urbanism". It takes as its point of departure the cross-cultural conditions in which architects, urban designers and landscape architects work. It is focused in particular on architects working in a condition of displacement.