Dr. Lisa Beißwanger
27.05.2023
Lisa Beißwanger is a research associate in the departments of Architecture Theory and Science and Architecture and Art History at the department of Architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt. As an art historian, she approaches architecture from a cultural-studies and critical-analytical perspective. Her research areas include: Art and architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries and their socio-political contexts, institutional theory and critique, discourses of body, space and movement in the arts, museum and exhibition research, school and university architecture, and perspectives on the history of education and science.
After completing her master’s degree in art history at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, she worked for several years in the museum field, including at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt. She then completed her doctorate at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. There she taught art history at the Institute for Art Education and was a member of the international cultural studies graduate center GCSC. Her dissertation will be published in fall 2021 under the title “Performance on Display – On the History of Living Art in Museums” in German by Deutscher Kunstverlag.
The subject of her postdoctoral project is the phenomenon of campus architecture in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s. These large-scale projects are examined in the light of (then) contemporary educational politics and theory, especially systems theory and cybernetics. This raises questions about implicit as well as explicit systemic parameters and the inclusions and exclusions they consciously or unconsciously make.
Dr. Sarah Borree
06.01.2022
Sarah Borree is a postdoctoral researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her work focuses on the relation between architecture and modern mass media, as well as the socio-professional cultures and knowledge practices within the field of architecture and how they implicate the production of architecture. In her postdoctoral research project, she investigates the construction of architectural subjectivity and socio-cultural notions of the architect. Sarah Borree holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Edinburgh, where she pursued her research at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA). Prior to her doctoral studies, she studied architecture at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, Germany, Virginia Tech, VA, USA and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany, and worked internationally both in- and outside of academia. Sarah’s research has been published internationally and she was the co-editor of the peer-reviewed graduate journal Edinburgh Architecture Research.
https://www.kunst.uni-frankfurt.de/de/mitarbeiter/seiten/sarah-borree/
Dr. Chris Dähne
20.07.2021
Chris Dähne studied architecture at the Delft University of Technology and interior design at the Hochschule Darmstadt. She received her PhD from the Institute of History of Art, Architecture and Urbanism (IHAAU) at TU Delft with a thesis on the urban symphonies of the 1920s (scholarships from Bauhaus University Weimar and TU Delft). She has been a visiting scholar at Waseda University Tokyo, a guest lecturer at TU Delft, and has taught at various universities. In her teaching and research, she also draws on her knowledge with artistic and unconventional approaches from her work as a practicing architect. This enables her to think architecture beyond disciplinary boundaries of architectural history, media history and history of technology. She is currently researching data-based architecture, proto-digital and digital technologies and media in the LOEWE focus “Architectures of Ordering” at Goethe University Frankfurt a. M. and in the DFG project BAUdigital at TU Darmstadt. With her work she wants to critically reflect technologically inspired cultural transformations of space and make them productive for architectural discourse.
Recent works and activities: “The ‘Analog Images’ of Digital Architecture” (2019/ 2022, essay in: Cloud Cuckoo Home|Cloud Cuckoo Land, Journal on the Theory of Architecture, No. 40 “Medial Practices of Architectural Design”), “Utopia Computer. The ‘New’ in Architecture?” (2019, International conference at UdK Berlin and publication of the same name, 2022 together with Nathalie Bredella and Frederike Lausch, “Data Visualization” (LOEWE AO-Talks together with Nadja Gaudillière-Jami 2021-22), “Biased Drawing. ‘Representation bias’ in spatial orders from the 1950s to the 1980s” (LOEWE AO-Workshop Stiftung Bibliothek Werner Oechslin in Einsiedeln, Switzerland 2022).
PD Dr. Markus Dauss
02.04.2020
Markus Dauss ist Privatdozent am Kunstgeschichtlichen Institut der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main und 2019-2020 Gastprofessor für Kunstgeschichte an der Freien Universität Berlin. Derzeit forscht er mit Mitteln der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft zur Geschichte und Theorie Transitorischer Orte. Eine einjährige Gastprofessur hat ihn 2018-2019 an die Universität Augsburg geführt. An der Goethe-Universität hat er mehrfach Professuren für Kunst- und Architekturgeschichte vertreten. Seine Habilitationsschrift (2012) rekonstruiert die Geschichte der architektonischen Schrift- bzw. Sprachmetaphorik, seine Dissertationsschrift (2004; École Pratique des Hautes Études Paris, Technische Universität Dresden) untersucht in vergleichender Perspektive die Rolle öffentlicher Bauten des Historismus bei der kollektiven Identitätsstiftung in Berlin und Paris. Publiziert hat er vollem zur Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur sowie der Gartenkünste in Früher Neuzeit und Moderne, zur Kunst- und Medientheorie sowie zu Bildkonzepten der Moderne.
https://www.kunst.uni-frankfurt.de/de/mitarbeiter/seiten/dr-markus-dauss/zur-person/
Dipl.-Ing. Oliver Elser
10.11.2018
Oliver Elser works as curator at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt/Main. Interim professor for Architecture Theory in 2021 at the Faculty of Architecture, KIT, Karlsruhe. In 2016 he was the curator of “Making Heimat”, the German Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale Venice. In his role at the DAM he has curated exhibits on the topics of Brutalism, Postmodernism, 20th Century Architecture Models, and about Simon Ungers (among others). 2012-2013 he was interim professor for Scenography at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz. As free-lance curator, in team with Michael Rieper, he curated “Housing Models: Experimentation and Everyday Life” (Wien, Sofia and Belgrad). Since 1999, together with the artist/gallerist Oliver Croy, he has been working on the project “Sondermodelle” (“special models”), which was most recently presented at the “Palazzo Enciclopedico” within the Art Biennale Venice 2013.
Prof. Dr. Christiane Fülscher
01.06.2017
Christiane Fülscher is Professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund teaching architecture history, theory and preservation. Previously she was research associate at the institute Architecture Theory and Science, Technical University of Darmstadt (postdoc) and at the institute of Architectural History, University Stuttgart. She studied Architecture and Art History in Hamburg and worked several years as an architect. Her research focus lies in the areas of architectural history and theory from the modern age to the present with a special emphasis on the cultural- and socio-political relevance of architecture. Important publications are: Deutsche Botschaften. Zwischen Anpassung und Abgrenzung, Berlin 2021; Vorbildliche Lehrgebäude. Architekturfakultäten nach 1945. In: Staatsbauschule München. Architektur, Konstruktion und Ausbildungstradition, Silke Langenberg, Karl Kegler, Regine Hess [Hrsg.], München 2022; Stuttgart Architecture Guide 1900-2017, Stuttgart 2017; Markthalle Stuttgart, Hamburg 2014; Der Weg der Roten Fahne. Art in Correlation to Architecture, Urban Planning and Policy, Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, VGTU 04/2013.
Dr. Frederike Lausch
09.11.2016
Frederike Lausch is a lecturer and postdoctoral fellow at Technical University Darmstadt. Her research focuses on architecture’s relationship to politics and philosophy in the 20th and 21st century.
She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main in 2019. In her doctoral thesis she investigated the translation processes between Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy and the US-American architectural discourse of the Anyone Corporation (published with Transcript 2021). During her doctoral studies, she was part of the research project on “Mimetic Practices in Recent Architecture“ within the DFG research group “Media and Mimesis” (2014–2017). She previously studied architecture at the Bauhaus University (B.Sc. 2011, M.Sc. 2014) and at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara (Erasmus). Her Master Thesis “Architektenausbildung in Weimar: 29 Lebensläufe zwischen DDR und BRD” [Architecture Education in Weimar: 29 biographies between the GDR and reunited Germany] was published in 2015.
She worked as a researcher and lecturer at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (2014–2018) and at RWTH Aachen University (2020–2021). She held a fellowship in 2019 from the Wüstenrot Foundation to conduct the research and book project “Fascism and Architecture. Max Bächer’s confrontation with Albert Speer”.
As project coordinator, she co-developed in 2017 the Center for Critical Studies in Architecture (CCSA), a cooperation between the Institute of Art History at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, the Architecture Department at Technical University Darmstadt and the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main, and she coordinated in 2019 the implementation of the ongoing research project “Architecture and Order”, funded by the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts.
She is member of the management board of Netzwerk Architekturwissenschaft e.V., an association for interdisciplinary academic exchange on architecture.
M. A. Jennifer Dyck
01.06.2015
Jennifer Dyck is a Scientific Volunteer at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt am Main since 2022. She studied Art History, Classical Archaeology and Comparative Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt, where she completed her Master’s degree at the Art History Institute in 2021. In her master’s thesis, she examined the intersection of architecture, politics and utopia in France in the late 1960s and 1970s, focusing on the exemplary urban development project in Ivry-sur-Seine (architects Renée Gailhoustet and Jean Renaudie). From 2017 to 2020, she was a student Assistant at the Art History Institute at the Chair of Architectural History. Among other things, she was involved in the editorial work of the CCSA TOPICS 1 „Max Bächer. 50 Meter Archiv“. Afterwards, she was a Research Assistant in the LOEWE Research Cluster Architectures of Order. Practices and Discourses between Design and Knowledge.
cand. M. Sc. Leonie Nele Lube
02.04.2015
Since 2018, Leonie Nele Lube has worked as a student assistant for Prof. Dr. Christiane Salge at the Art History Institute of TU Darmstadt. Her work has involved the organization of two exhibitions: “Paul Meißner. Ein Architekt zwischen Tradition und Aufbruch” in 2019, as well as “Max Bächer. 50 Meter Archiv” in 2018. Since 2019, she has worked for the CCSA and also for AO (2020-2021) in the areas of social media, web content management and the organization of events held by the Center for Critical Studies in Architecture.
Prof. Dr. Anna-Maria Meister
27.02.2014
Anna-Maria Meister is professor for architecture theory and science at TU Darmstadt, and works at the intersection of architecture’s histories and the histories of science and technology. Her work focuses on the production and dissemination of norms and normed objects as social desires in German modern architecture. Meister received a joint PhD degree in the History and Theory of Architecture and the Council of the Humanities from Princeton University, and holds degrees in architecture from Columbia University, New York, and the TU Munich. She was a fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin, and a postdoctoral fellow at the TU Munich. Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Graham Foundation, the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, DAAD, and Columbia University, among others. Her writing has been published in Harvard Design Magazine, Volume, Uncube, Baumeister, Arch+ and as book chapter in Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence (Routledge, 2013) and Dust and Data (2019). She is co-curator and co-editor of the international collaborative project “Radical Pedagogies”; the eponymous book is forthcoming with Sternberg Press in 2020.
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Prof. Dr. Elli Mosayebi
10.11.2013
Elli Mosayebi is Associate Professor of Architecture and Design at the ETH Zurich. She forges a close connection between practice, research and teaching. The architecture firm Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architekten, which she co-founded, places particular emphasis on urban design and residential construction, for which it has won numerous awards. In her research she explores European residential construction since 1945, looking at the forms of housing found in model dwellings and examining the conditions under which they came into being.
Dr. Daniela Ortiz dos Santos
07.11.2012
Daniela Ortiz dos Santos is an architect and an architectural historian, whose work is at the crossroads of the cultural studies of art, literature and architecture. Her research, teaching, and curatorial activities focus on transatlantic architectural history and historiography. She studied Architecture and Urbanism in Buenos Aires (UBA) and in Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and received her PhD in History and Theory of Architecture from the ETH Zurich. She is currently an assistant professor at the Art History Institute of the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.
Daniela is a fellow at the Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Goethe (JQYA), being awarded a sabbatical fellowship for the Winter Semester 2022. The intersection of international organizations and intellectual migration has been useful to an ongoing project that explores Latin America as a category and the architectural historiography of the region during the Cold War era. It explores the different forms of instrumentalization of culture and the arts, as well as the role of UNESCO in exercising a regional integration movement.
In 2022, she conceived the symposium Architectural History and International Organizations at the Goethe University (June), authored the chapter “Italian Roots in Latin American Architectural History” for the anthology Italian Imprints on Twentieth-Century Architecture published by Bloomsbury, and co-edited the publication Zeitgenössische feministische Raumpraxis (ARCH+. February 2022), as well as a special edition on archives and architecture at the Scientific Journal of Architecture of the University of Brasilia Paranoá (January 2022).
Daniela is the author of Invisible Files in Visible Institutions: Notes on Max Cetto’s Papers (CRITIQUE D’ART, 2020), Blaise Cendrars et Le Corbusier: villes et voyages utiles (KOMODO21, 2018), co-author of the book chapter Fazer por cronologias: Por uma historia escrita nos corpos (EDUFBA, 2019). She conceived with Carsten Ruhl, Oliver Elser and Christiane Salge the CCSA Bauhaus Lectures at the DAM in Frankfurt am Main, co-curated with Samia Henni, Jacqueline Maurer and Andreas Kalpakci the exhibitions “gta Films“ at the gta Exhibitions of the ETH Zurich (2017) [exhibition catalogue here] and “Moving Constructions” [audio recording here] at the Garagem Sul in Centro Cultural de Belem in Lisbon (2019). The results of the gta Films project appeared in the 3rd volume of the journal gta Papers by the gta Verlag (2019). She was principal investigator of the sub-project “Rio de Janeiro’s streets” for the research Calles del Sur supported by the City on the Move Institute, which resulted in the contribution for the publication Ganar la Calle! Compartir sin dividir (2009).
Her work has also appeared in international conference proceedings organized by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), the European Architectural History Network (EAHN), the Documentation and Conservation of the buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the Modern Movement (DOCOMOMO), the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH, forthcoming) and the Iberian-American Network of Urban History.
Her forthcoming publications include:
“Rewriting Landscapes of the Honorable Cannibal: Le Corbusier and Modern Visions of the World to Come”, in Kirsten Kramer, Marius Littschwager and Julian Gaertner (eds.), Traveling, Narrating, Comparing. Travel Narratives of the Americas from the 18th to the 20th Century. Goettingen: at Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, forthcoming
Bauhaus Clouds. Challenges to the Nebula of Architectural Histories and Archives. CCSA Topics, co-edited with Carsten Ruhl and Oliver Elser, Weimar: MBOOKS, forthcoming.
Selection of Teaching Activities
Unesco Marking Architecture Culture – Seminar/Summer Semester 2022
Which Histories? – Survey Course on Architectural History/Summer Semester 2022
Architecture, Archives and Activism – Seminar/Winter Semester 2021/2022, with Sarah Borree and Frederike Lausch
What Kind of Cities do We Want to Live In? – Webinar/Winter Winter Semester 2020-2021
The Meaning of Architecture Today – Propaedeutic Course/Winter Semester 2020-2021, with Carsten Ruhl
History and Theory in Architectural Periodicals – Master’s Seminar/Summer Semester 2020
Critical Agendas for Architecture: Feminism and Modern Architecture– Bachelor’s Seminar/Summer Semester 2020
Displacement and the Making of Modern Architecture – Seminar & Colloquium/Winter Semester 2019-2020
Architectural History in Exile. Transatlantic Displacements (1914-1975) – Master’s Seminar/Summer Semester 2018
M. A. Moritz Röger
28.04.2011
Moritz Röger is a doctoral researcher at the LOEWE research cluster »Architectures of Order«. His research focuses on the construction of architects’ identities by means of autobiographical writing and the influence these writings had on 20th century architectural historiography. He studied sociology and art history at Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, and graduated with a master’s degree (from the Art History Institute) in 2020. During his studies, he has worked as co-curator at Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM).
› 2020 MA in Art History, Goethe-University
› 10/2017-10/2018 Co-curator of the exhibition “Die immer neue Altstadt. Bauen zwischen Dom und Römer seit 1900,” Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM)
› 04/2017-03/2020 Student assistant at Art History Institute of Goethe-University
› 2017 Bachelor’s degree in Art History and Sociology from Goethe-University
Prof. Dr. Carsten Ruhl
05.05.2010
Carsten Ruhl is Professor of Architectural History at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main since 2013. Previously he served as Professor for Theory and History of Modern Architecture at Bauhaus-University Weimar, and as Professor for Architectural History at Ruhr-University Bochum. He studied Architecture, Art History, Philosophy and Historic Science, and since has focused on post 18th century History and Theory of Architecture. His most important publications are: “Mythos Monument. Urbane Strategien in Architektur und Kunst seit 1945, 2011 (Mythical Monument. Urban Strategies in Architecture and Art since 1945); Magisches Denken-Monumentale Form. Aldo Rossi und die Architektur des Bildes, 2013 (Magical Thinking – Monumental Form. Aldo Rossi and the Architecture of the Image); Architektur ausstellen. Zur mobilen Anordnung des Immobilen, 2015 (Exhibiting Architecture. About the mobile organization of the immovable); The Death and Life of the Total Work of Art. Henry van de Velde and the legacy of a Modern concept. 12th International Bauhaus-Colloquium, 2015.
Prof. Dr. Christiane Salge
10.04.2009
Christiane Salge is Professor for Architecture and Art History at TU Darmstadt. Previously she served as Junior Professor at Freie Universität Berlin and Project Manager for the DFG Project “Baukunst und Wissenschaft. Architektenausbildung um 1800 am Beispiel der Berliner Bauakademie“. Her research focus lies in the areas of architectural history and theory from the early modern age to the beginnings of modern architecture. Important publications are: Anton Johann Ospel. Ein Architekt des österreichischen Spätbarock (1677–1756), München 2007 (Anton Johann Ospel. Architect of the Austrian late baroque period); Architekturtraktate im Spannungsfeld zwischen Theorie und Praxis. Berlin 2008 (Architectural Treatises in the interspace of Theory and Practice) in ; August Endell. Berliner Architekt und Formkünstler (1871–1925) (August Endell. Architect and Form Artist in Berlin (1871-1925)),Petersberg 2012.
Prof. Dr. Brigitte Sölch
16.12.2008
Brigitte Sölch is Professor of the History of Architecture and Art History at Heidelberg University. She has been Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture/Design History at Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design (2018-2021) and spent the spring term 2019 in New York City as Weinberg Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University (project: “The Agora in Postwar Architectural Discourse”). Her award-winning PhD thesis (published 2007) focused on the beginnings of public museums in Rome in the early eighteenth century, and in 2018, she completed her habilitation at the Humboldt University of Berlin with a thesis on the idea and concept of the ‘forum’ (fifteenth to twenty-first century). Brigitte Sölch was assistant professor and assistant curator at various universities and museums before holding several positions at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence – Max-Planck-Institute (2008–2018), where she was also co-project leader of “Ethics and Architecture” and “Piazza e monumento.” Her recent publications include the book Kunsthistorikerinnen 1910–1980: Wege Methoden Kritiken, edited with K. Lee Chichester (2021).
Prof. Alla Vronskaya, Ph.D.
11.10.2007
Alla Vronskaya is Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Kassel. Her research focuses on the theory of modern architecture, particularly in the Soviet Union and other state-socialist countries. Her book “Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences” (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) explores intersections between architecture, labor management, and human sciences in modern Russia. She has also worked on gender history of socialist architecture as a regional editor for the former Soviet Union in “Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture” and the head of Women Building Socialism research project. She is currently working on her second monograph, devoted to Soviet architecture’s encounter with climatic and geographic diversity of the country during the Cold War.
Dr. Linda Walther
08.10.2007
Linda Walther studied art history and Romance philology in Bochum und Düsseldorf. At Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, she was a research assistant at the Institute of art history and member of the DFG Graduate Program „Materiality and Production“. Having obtained her doctorate in the field of contemporary art in 2018, she has been an assistant curator at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf and coordinator of the LOEWE research cluster “Architectures of Order. Practices and Discourses between Design and Knowledge” at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main. She is currently curator at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld.