Dick van Gameren is a full professor at Delft University of Technology, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft and partner/director of design and research at Mecanoo architecten in Delft, the Netherlands. He combines his work as an architect with education and research, maintaining a critical approach to design by lecturing, researching and publishing. In 2008, Van Gameren founded the book series DASH (Delft Architectural Studies on Housing) and is since then editor in chief. At TU Delft, he leads the Global Housing Study Centre, an international education and research network which focuses on the problems of building affordable housing in rapidly expanding cities. In 2007, Van Gameren won the prestigious Aga Kahn Award for the design of the Dutch Embassy in Ethiopia.