Place in Sequence: A conversation with Erik Lindner

Authors

Klaske Havik
Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6059-8521

Synopsis

During a walk in the forest where the Dutch poet Erik Linder spent several months as an artist-in-residence, this conversation unfolds around the question how his poems emerge from observations of places. The poet explains that his poems are not representations of places, but rather sequences of place-related associations. When carefully brought together in poems, these fragments form an almost cinematic series of images, which are then complemented by the memories and associations of his readers. The walk leads towards a site featured in one of his poems, and the conversation dissolves into the poem itself.

Author Biography

Klaske Havik, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Klaske Havik is professor of Methods of Analysis and Imagination at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology. Her research relates architectural and urban questions, such as the use, experience and imagination of place, to literary language. Her books on the topic include Urban Literacy. Reading and Writing Architecture (2014) and the edited volume Writingplace, Investigations in Architecture and Literature (2016), after which she initiated the Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature. Earlier, she was editor of architecture journals oaseand de Architect. Her poetry collection Way and Further appeared in 2021.In 2022 she received an honorary doctorate of Tampere University, Finland, in recognition of her contribution to the study of architectural writing. 

Pages

129-140

Published

December 31, 2025

License

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Havik, K. (2025). Place in Sequence: A conversation with Erik Lindner. In K. Havik, A. Sioli, V. A. Cellucci, & J. A. Hawkins (Eds.), Poetics of Place (pp. 129-140). TU Delft OPEN Books. https://doi.org/10.59490/mt.215.47