Wouter Vanstiphoutis is an historian of architecture and, since 2009, professor of design and politics at the Delft University of Technology. Vanstiphout is one of the founders of the Crimson Architectural Historians research collective, Rotterdam. He is also a member of the Reflection team of VROM, Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, The Hague and serves on the board of SKOR, Foundation Art and Public Space, Amsterdam.