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Michael Speaks ist Dekan an der Universität des Kentuck Collge of Design und ehemaliger Gründungsvorstand des Metropolitan Research and Design Postgraduate Program der Sci-Arc in Los Angeles. Er leitet ebenfalls Big Soft Orange, eine niederländisch-amerikanische Stadtforschungsgruppe mit Standorten in Rotterdam und Los Angeles. Er war Herausgeber und Gründer des Kulturjournals Polygraph, sowie Mitherausgeber von Architecture New York und a+u (Tokyo), und arbeitet derzeit als beitragender Herausgeber für das Architecutral Record. Als Lehrer, Forscher und Herausgeber hat Speaks in zahlreichen Institutionen innerhalb der Vereinigten Staaten wie auch im Ausland mitgewirkt, darunter die Technischen Universität Delft, die Yale School of Arts, die Harvard University, die Columbia University, die University of Michigan, das Berlage Institut in Rotterdam und die University of California, Los Angeles. Außerhalb des Hörsaals hat der in Los Angeles lebende Schriftsteller und Kritiker sich in Vorträgen und Veröffentlichungen zur Kunst, Architektur, der Stadt- und Szenarienplanung geäußert. In jüngeren Diskussionen um die Rolle von Innovation und Prototypenentwicklung für das Design nimmt er eine zentrale Position ein und hat eine vielzahl einflussreicher Aufsätze geschrieben, welche auf die Bedeutung dessen verweisen, was er eine „Design Intelligence“ nennt.
Richard Shusterman received a B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and completed his doctoral studies in Philosophy at Oxford University. In Israel he taught at the Hebrew University and the University of the Negev, and then moved to the United States, where he was Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, and chaired its department from 1998-2004. He then was awarded the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar Chair in the Humanities at Florida Atlantic University, where he also directs the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture. His authored books include Surface and Depth (2002); Performing Live (2000); Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life (1997); Sous l’interprétation (1994), Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art (1992, 2nd edition 2000); T.S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism (1988); and The Object of Criticism (1984). His most recent book, Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics was published by Cambridge University Press. It provides the most detailed formulation of his project of somaesthetics.
GENERIC REALISM
(2011)
Bettina Schürkamp completed her diploma in architecture at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart in 1995 and attended the graduate course „Histories and Theories of Architecture“ at the Architectural Association in London. For more than five years she worked as a practising architect for architectural firms in England and Germany such as Bolles+Wilson, Münster and Peter Kulka, Köln. From 2001 until 2007 she held a research and teaching position at the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture at Wuppertal University. Currently she is completing her dissertation on the Dutch architectural firm OMA*AMO She writes as a freelance journalist for architectural magazines in Germany and Switzerland and has been publishing in magazines such as Archithese, Arch+, Bauwelt and Deutsche Bauzeitung.
Lara Schrijver is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft. She is one of three program leaders for a new research program in the department of architecture, ‘The Architectural Project and its Foundations’. Schrijver holds degrees in architecture from Princeton University and the TU Delft. She received her Ph.D. from the TU Eindhoven in 2005. Schrijver has taught design and theory courses, and contributed to conferences in the Netherlands as well as abroad. She was an editor for OASE, journal for architecture, for ten years, and was co-organizer of the 2006 conference ‘The Projective Landscape’. Her current work revolves around the role of architecture in the city, and its responsibility in defining the public domain. Her first book, Radical Games, on the influence of the 1960s on contemporary discourse, is forthcoming in the spring of 2009.
Tatjana Schneider is lecturer at the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield. She holds a PhD in architecture. She worked in architectural practice in Germany and the UK, and has taught, lectured and published widely (including ‘Flexible Housing’ with Jeremy Till). She was a member of the worker’s cooperative G.L.A.S. (Glasgow Letters on Architecture and Space), which undertook agit-prop works, educational workshops, community based design consultancy and produced the quarterly journal glaspaper. Her work focuses on the production and political economy of the built environment. Current work includes the research ‘Spatial Agency’.
DIE MODERNE ALS TRADITION
(2011)
Anne Schmedding ist als freie Kunst- und Architekturhistorikerin in Berlin tätig, unter anderem bei Urbanizers, Büro für städtische Konzepte. Von 2005 bis 2009 war sie wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der TU Braunschweig im Fachbereich Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur und Stadt. Sie ist Mitherausgeberin des Kataloges „Gesetz und Freiheit“ zu Leben und Werk des Architekten Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemers (Berlin 2007). Sie war von 1996–1999 Redakteurin der Zeitschrift Daidalos und ist Mitherausgeberin des Buches „Architektur in Berlin“ (Berlin 1999). Sie war wissenschaftliche Kuratorin und Mitarbeiterin der Ausstellung „Stadt der Architektur. Architektur der Stadt“, die im Jahr 2000 im Neuen Museum in Berlin zu sehen war. Momentaner Forschungsschwerpunkt ist Architektur und Kunst der westdeutschen Nachkriegszeit. Vor kurzem schloß sie ihre Dissertation über Dieter Oesterlen ab.
Yolanda Ortega Sanz is an architect and associate professor at Polytechnic School, Universitat de Girona, Catalonia, Spain; where she teaches architectural design. Ortega was educated at School of architecture in Barcelona and Arkitektskolen i Aarhus, Denmark. Later on, she received a grant to be a young researcher at Danmarks Kunstbibliotek, Copenhagen. Currently, she is PhD Candidate in the research group FORM where she develops her thesis entitled “Nordic assembly” focus on Modern Architecture in Nordic countries. Her research has been published and presented in several conferences as: 1st International Conference on contemporary architects: Jørn Utzon, Sevilla, Spain; 1st Conference on architectural competition, Nordic Symposium, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden; or Responsibilities and Opportunities in Architectural Conservation, CSAAR, Amman, Jordan.
Andreas Rumpfhuber is Architect and Researcher and currently based in Vienna, Austria. He studied architecture at University of Technology in Graz and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. He is member of the research collective roundtable.kein.org at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College in London. He has taught and lectured at architecture schools in Europe and is a regular contributor to the Vienna street newspaper Augustin and architecture journals like derivé, UmBau, Monu, Arkitekten. In his office he is currently working on small scale projects.
TRANSFORMING TO EXPERT
(2011)
Katharina Richter holds a degree in Architecture, Urban- and Regional Planning from the Bauhaus-University Weimar, where she is appointed as Assistant Professor at the Chair of Computer Science in Architecture since 2000. She teaches architecture studio in undergraduate and graduate programs and has been supervising several international teaching projects. In Fall 2004 she was teaching and researching at the Washington Alexandria Architecture Consortium - Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Alexandria, VA. Her current research focuses on the investigation of the potential of computer based exchange of experiential knowledge in architecture. Between 2000 and 2006 she coordinated third party verification procedures at the Collaborative Research Center SFB 524 „Materials and Structures in Revitalization of Buildings“, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany. Her work has been published at various international conferences as well as in related reviewed journals.
Professor Jane Rendell is Director of Architectural Research at the Bartlett, UCL. An architectural designer and historian, art critic and writer, her work has explored various interdisciplinary intersections: feminist theory and architectural history, ne art and architectural design, autobiographical writing and criticism. She is author of Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism (2010), Art and Architecture (2006), The Pursuit of Pleasure (2002) and co-editor of Pattern (2007), Critical Architecture (2007), Spatial Imagination (2005), The Unknown City (2001), Intersections (2000), Gender Space Architecture (1999) and Strangely Familiar (1995). Her talks and texts have been commissioned by artists such as Daniel Arsham and Bik Van Der Pol, and galleries, as the Baltic, the Hayward, Kunstmuseum Thon, the Serpentine, the Tate and the Whitechapel. She is on the Editorial Board for ARQ (Architectural Research Quarterly), Haecceity, The Happy Hypocrite, The Issues and the Journal of Visual Culture in Britain.
PANTS ON FIRE?
(2011)
Grace Quiroga studied architecture at the University of Michigan and at the Vienna University of Technology. Her ongoing architectural projects include the design of a housing project in the Chinese province of Sichuan for a thousand families displaced by the earthquake of 2008. In addition, she is working on a doctoral dissertation titled “Rem Koolhaas and the architecture culture of the AA in the 1970’s”.
Martin Peschken studied History of Art and Literature in Berlin and Madrid. In 2005 he completed his doctoral studies in comparative literature at Freie Universität Berlin. He worked then as a curator of the gallery “Laden V-17” in Berlin. In 2005 he joined the project-team of International Building Exhibition “Stadtumbau 2010” in Saxony-Anhalt based at Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, where he curated several exhibitions and urban projects. He currently works as Scientific Assistant at Technische Universität Braunschweig in the department of “History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism”.
MODELLWECHSEL
(2011)
Wolfgang Pehnt lehrte Baugeschichte an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Er hat zahllose Arbeiten zur Architekturgeschichte der Moderne veröffentlicht und Monographien über Baumeister wie Gottfried Böhm, Hans Poelzig, Rudolf Schwarz und Karljosef Schattner geschrieben; er war Autor bei der Propyläen-Kunstgeschichte und Mitarbeiter von Fachzeitschriften, Katalogbüchern, Tageszeitungen und Rundfunkanstalten. Seine Bücher „Die Architektur des Expressionismus“ und „Deutsche Architektur seit 1900“ gelten als Standardwerke. Er wurde vielfach ausgezeichnet, zuletzt mit dem Deutschen Preis für Denkmalschutz (Karl Friedrich Schinkel-Ring).