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Frederique Van Andel

Senior Researcher at Delft University of Technology

Areas of expertise

  • - Architectural and Urban Design
  • - Affordable housing design & policies
  • - Housing exhibitions
  • - Incremental housing
  • - Participatory design & processes

About me

Frederique van Andel is a researcher in the Global Housing research group of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of TU Delft. Frederique holds a Master’s degree in both urban planning and architecture from Delft University of Technology. She worked for Mecanoo architecten and DP6 architectuurstudio in Delft, and lived in Barcelona where she worked with the architect Toni Gironès. Her main topic of interest is affordable housing for growing cities in the Global South. Frederique curated the exhibition ‘Global Housing – Affordable Dwellings for Growing Cities’ (2016) with venues in Delft and Addis Ababa. She is managing editor of the book series DASH (Delft Architectural Studies on Housing) and coordinates and edits the online Platform for Affordable Dwelling (PAD). Frederique teaches Master (research) courses on Global Housing and Bachelor courses on Plan Analysis. She is project manager for the research project ‘Addis Ababa Living Lab: Creating Resilient Dwelling Clusters for Urban Resettlement in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’, funded by the Dutch Research Council and TU Delft (2019-2023).