Ringvorlesung Architectural Research 2019/20

Kirsten Wagner is Professor of Cultural Studies and Communication Science at the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld. She is head of the research focus "Erkenntnisformen der Fotografie," the current research project of which is "Bilder des Wohnens. Architekturen im Bild".

Reinhard Kropf founded together with Siv Helene Stangeland the architectural office Helen&Hard based in Stavanger and Oslo, Norway. He studied at Graz University of Technology and at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design AHO, under Sverre Fehn. He teached at the Kansas State University. L'école d'architecture/ Paris, Bartlett University/London and Hust University, Wohan, China. Several Helen & Hard's projects have received national and international honours and awards.

Johann Moser is the mastermind behind the cultural projects of BWM Architekten, Vienna. Together with Daniela Walten and Erich Bernard, he is also one of the founders of BWM Architekten. Trained as an artist, his work focuses on the development and conception of exhibition designs - for example for the Literature Museum of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, for the display collection of the Salzburg Museum or for the Lower Austrian annual exhibitions in 2015.

Sophia Psarra is the Director of MPhil/PhD History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London (UCL). Her research focuses on the relationshin between spatial form, human activity and cultural meaning in buildings, cities and urban settlements.

Wolfgang Sonne is Professor for History and Theory of Architecture at TU Dortmund, Scientific Director of the Baukunstarchiv NRW and Deputy Director of the Deutsches Institut für Stadtbaukunst.

Silvia Benedito is the co-principal of OFICINAA, an award-winning architecture and urban design office based in Ingolstadt (Germany), an Associate Professor at Harvard GSD, Cambridge, MA and guest-professor at Graz University of Technology, Institute of Architecture and Landscape in winter 2019/20. Before establishing her office and teaching path, she was a senior associate at James Corner Field Operations in NYC.

Hans-Christian von Hermann is Professor for Literary Studies (Literature and Science) at Technische Universität Berlin. His research is concerned with media aesthetics, the ecology of media and knowledge research. From 2011 to 2016 he led a research project funded by the DFG which addressed the Zeiss Planetarium as a hyperreal environment. The results were published in a book which came out in 2018: Zum Planetarium. Wissensgeschichtliche Studien (Paderborn).

This research training presents essential databases in the field of architecture and construction and their functionality using practical examples. This is followed by an introduction to professional reference management and reference management software. Bring your laptop/tablet as well as your specific research questions to get the most out of this training.