The Terrifying Beauty of Absence

Alexander D'Hooghe is professor in Architectural Urbanism at MIT where he directs the "platform for a permanent modernity". D"Hooghe recently started a design office called 'ORG' with projects in the Low Countries. His books include Public Form (2005), and Volume no. 9 (2006), a theme issue on the redevelopment of the American suburb. He is preparing the publication of his PhD, 'the Liberal Monument". His work has been published in AA files, Archplus, Block, Perspecta, Places, New Geographies, etc. D'Hooghe worked with Rem Koolhaas, Marcel Smets and Wiel Arets. He holds degrees from Harvard and Leuven. He studied and taught at the Harvard Design School, the University of Leuven, and the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam.