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Rachel Lee

Assistant Professor, History of Architecture and Urban Planning at Delft University of Technology

Areas of expertise

  • - Exile and migration
  • - Transnational architectural practice
  • - Heritage from below
  • - Colonial and post-colonial architecture

Major works

Lee, Rachel. ‘Engaging the Archival Habitat: Architectural Knowledge and Otto Koenigsberger’s Effects’. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Special Section: Architecture as a Form of Knowledge., vol. 40, no. 3, Dec. 2020, pp. 526–40. Silverchair , doi: 10.1215/1089201X-8747502.

Dogramaci, Burcu, et al., editors. Arrival Cities: Migrating Artists and New Metropolitan Topographies in the 20th Century. Leuven University Press, 2020.

Iyer Siddiqi, Anooradha, and Rachel Lee. ‘On Margins: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration’. ABE Journal. Architecture beyond Europe , no. 16, Apr. 2020, doi.

About me

Rachel was born in the port city of Dundee, Scotland. She studied architecture in Glasgow and Berlin. She completed her PhD at the Habitat Unit of the TU Berlin and worked at the LMU Munich before joining TU Delft. She has worked on several research and teaching projects in South Asia and East Africa in the port cities of Mumbai and Dar es Salaam.