Petra Brouwer is assistant professor of architectural history at the University of Amsterdam, with a focus on modern and contemporary architecture, town planning and architectural theory. Since 2017, she has been editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed open access journal Architectural Histories, journal of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN). She is currently working on an edited volume of World Histories of Architecture: The Emergence of a New Genre in the Nineteenth Century, based on her research as a residential scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles (2014) and a visiting professorship at McGill University’s School of Architecture in Montreal (2018). Another book project, developed with Tim Verlaan, examines Amsterdam’s ‘compact city’ policies of the 1980s.