Authors

Bahar Avanoğlu is currently a PhD candidate at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), where she studies architectural representation in relation to esoteric practices. She holds a BArch and MSci degree from ITU, and a post-professional MArch II degree from the Cooper Union. She teaches design and drawing studios at Istanbul Bilgi University and MEF University. She was an exchange PhD researcher at Politecnico di Torino for the 2021-22 academic year. She initiated DrawingConstructions as an experimental drawing project in 2017. She draws and works on drawing instruments. Her drawings have been published and exhibited internationally.

Publication:

Şiir/Mimarlık: Binanın İhlali (Poetry/Architecture: Violation of the Building) , Istanbul 2021.

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Dr. Wolfgang Bachmann lingered after his architectural studies with a dissertation and then found shelter in architectural offices for a few years. There he could never decide what to crib from all the journals, so he escaped to Bauwelt in Berlin and went to Baumeister in Munich in 1991. First as editor-in-chief, from 2011 to 2013 as publisher. In the meantime, he lectures, judges, moderates, discusses, writes reviews, glosses and short stories for newspapers, magazines and books.

ausgewählte Publikationen:

Drinnen. 77 Beobachtungen zwischen Tür und Angel, Hagen, 2014.

Alles Geier! Eine Farce über Architektur, eine Zeitschrift und einen Verlag, Stuttgart, 2019.

Draußen, Leipzig/Weissenfels 2021.

Jerome Becker is a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning at TU Wien. He studied architecture at TU Vienna and philosophy at the University of Vienna. He is co-founder and co-director of MAGAZIN - exhibition space for contemporary architecture since 2018; in 2019 he joined the editorial team of ADATO, an architecture magazine based in Luxembourg.

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Anna Beeke is a fine arts and documentary photographer and videographer. She has an MFA from the School of Visual Arts New York and a photojournalism degree from the International Center of Photography in New York. Her work has received multiple awards and has been exhibited across five continents and her first monograph, Sylvania, was published in 2015.

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born in Lübeck in 1946, studied sociology and German studies, theatre history and philosophy. He completed his doctorate on a topic related to the sociology of architecture. After working on the editorial staff of Bauwelt since 1989, he served as editor-in-chief of Daidalos between 1994 and 2000. Since 2000, Gerrit Confurius has worked as a freelance author. Gerrit Confurius has published essays in various magazines such as Bauwelt, Daidalos, archithese, Werk und Zeit, Wespennest and many more. He lives and works in Berlin and Brazil.


selected book publications:

Sabbioneta – oder die schöne Kunst der Stadtgründung, Munich 1983.

Der Pinocchio-Effekt. Vom Eigensinn des Ich in einer verkehrten Welt, Vienna 2009.

Architektur und Geistesgeschichte, Bielefeld 2017.

born 1983 in Madrid, she is a visual artist and curator. With The Ruin as a Replica. The Protocontemporary moment she received her PhD in Fine Arts from the Universidade do Minho, Universidad de Comillas, Portugal. She combines her work as a professor (Universidade do Minho, Universidad de Comillas) with her artistic and curating practice.

Her work has been awarded several prizes and grants by institutions around the world. Her projects have been exhibited and presented in museums, galleries, and festivals. In the year 2020, she founded PRESENTE (Porto, Portugal), a perambulating art-window aimed at showcasing artists whose work reflects on the idea of the Protocontemporary.

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Fala is an architecture practice based in porto. Their architecture has been described as very Portuguese by foreigners, and as outlandish by locals; both views are probably right.

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Bettina Köhler, (Prof. Dr. Phil.), lives and works as a author in Krefeld (GER) since 2019. She studied art history, classical archaeology and urban planning at the University of Bonn. Her dissertation, developed in Paris, is dedicated to the theory of the urban private house and was published in 1994. A research assistantship at the institute gta of the ETH Zurich was followed by an assistant professorship in the history and theory of architecture at the architecture department of the ETH from 1996 to 2003. From 2005 to 2019, she taught as professor of art and cultural history at the FHNW, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Basel, and was responsible for seminars and lectures at the Institute of Fashion Design and the Master Studio Integrative Design.


selected publications:

"Architektur ist die Kunst, gut zu bauen". Charles Augustin D'AvilersCours d'architecture qui comprend les Ordres de Vignole, Zürich/Berlin 1997.

Die Stadt Paris und das Wohnhaus: zum "Bâtiment Particulier" in der französischen Architekturtheorie von 1600–1750, Weimar 1994.

"Nähe und Distanz", in: Du, Schweizer Zeitschrift für Kultur, Themenheft Stadtplanung Keine Siedlungen sondern Quartiere, 904, Dezember, 2020,S. 58-63.

"Warum man sagt, das Haus habe eine Haut", in: Solaris #03, Heftreihe vom Hochparterre für Solararchitektur, Juni 2019, S. 8-10.

"On the audacity of fashion in an age of globalization", in: Cultural Spaces and Design, Prospects of Design Education, Regine Halter, Catherine Walthard (EDS), Basel, Frankfurt a. M., 2019, S. 48-61.



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Matthias Moroder studied architecture (AA Dipl.) at the Architectural Association in London, art history (BA) and philosophy (BA) at the University of Vienna and history and theory of architecture (MAS) at the ETH Zurich. Since 2015 he works together with Sebastian Bietenhader as Büro Bietenhader Moroder (Zurich/Vienna). In 2018 he co-founded MAGAZIN, an independent exhibition space for architecture in Vienna. He is currently a PhD student at the department of art history of the University of Vienna doing a thesis on the architecture and architectural theory of Viennese architect Hermann Czech. Matthias Moroder has taught architecture history and theory at the University of Vienna.

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Mario Rinke is a professor at the University of Antwerp. He researches and teaches on structural engineering and construction aspects of architecture. Trained as a civil engineer and working in the field of architecture for many years, he is particularly interested in transformation processes of technical knowledge, materials and institutions. As a structural engineer, he worked for offices in London and Zurich. He received his PhD from ETH Zurich in 2013 and has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture at ETH Zurich and at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, as well as a visiting professor at Tor Vergata University in Rome. He is a founding member of the International Association of Structures and Architecture (IASA).

selected publications and exhibitions

The Bones of Architecture, Lissabon 2019.

Before Steel, Sulgen 2010.

Holz: Stoff oder Form, Sulgen 2014.