Bart Lootsma ist Historiker, Theoretiker, Kritiker und Kurator in den Bereichen Architektur, Design und bildende Kunst. Er war Professor für Architekturtheorie an der Universität Innsbruck und Gastprofessor an mehreren anderen Universitäten. Bart Lootsma veröffentlichte zahlreiche Artikel und war Redakteur verschiedener internationaler Zeitschriften. Zu seinen Büchern gehören „Media and Architecture“ (1997), „SuperDutch“ (2000), „Reality Bytes, Selected Essays 1995-2015“ (2015), Italian Collage (2020). Bart Lootsma hält Vorträge in der ganzen Welt. Er kuratierte unter anderem ArchiLab 2004 in Orléans, den montenegrinischen Pavillon auf der Biennale von Venedig 2016 und Radical Austria, Everything is Architecture, für das Design Museum Den Bosch im Jahr 2021. Er ist Mitglied des Beirats der IBA 2022 Neues Soziales Wohnen in Wien und Vorstandsmitglied von Europan Österreich.

Bart Lootsma gründete die von 2006 bis 2022 von ihm geleitete Abteilung für Architekturtheorie an der Universität Innsbruck, architecturaltheory.eu. Zunächst konzentrierte sich architecturaltheory.eu auf die zeitgenössische Architekturtheorie und -kritik und beteiligte sich aktiv an der internationalen Debatte mit Artikeln, Vorträgen, Büchern, Ausstellungen und einer Internetpräsenz mit drei verschiedenen Websites: architecturaltheory.eu, architecturaltheory.txtund architecturaltheory.tv. Sie enthalten Arbeiten von Lootsma und seinen Mitarbeiter*innen, studentische Arbeiten aus den Ateliers, Diplomarbeiten, Dissertationen und Podcasts von Vortragsreihen, Symposien und dergleichen.

Eleni Zaparta has been a research assistant at the Department of Building Typologies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology since 2018 and will also be part of the architectural theory team in the winter semester of 2022/23. 2020 she received the KIT research scholarship “Lehre hoch Forschung”. From this, she developed together with Hannah Knoop a research seminar in cooperation with architectural theory. In this seminar, teaching methods from the humanities and architecture were brought together and applied to the own design.

She graduated from the TU-Darmstadt in 2016 and gained practical experience in Offenbach am Main, Madrid and Basel during her studies. After completing her studies, she worked as an executive architect in Swiss offices and did her own design projects in parallel. In 2021, she founded her own architectural practice NOUS-ARC in Basel, which is primarily concerned with hybrid and flexible typologies.

Hannah Knoop is research associate for architectural theory at KIT Karlsruhe since 2019, PhD Candidate with Prof. Georg Vrachliotis and an architect. She studied architecture at TU Munich/ ETSA Madrid and architecture theory at Institute gta ETH Zurich. She has worked in German and Swiss architectural offices, in 2017 she had joined studioeuropa (Munich|Vienna) as an architect. As research associate she has been at ETH Zurich and TU Kaiserslautern. Her articles were published, among others, in OASE and Dimensions. She participated at conferences such as AHRA or ISPA. Her research focuses on supranational architectures and the representation of human rights in the built environment.
Contact: hannah.knoop∂kit.edu
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Since 2019 Dennis Pohl is research assistant at the department for architecture theory at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He studied architecture in Hannover and Antwerp, urban research at AdBK Nuremberg, and philosophy at KU Leuven. His PhD research addresses the political impact of architecture on the institutions of the European Union in Brussels, Luxembourg and Strasbourg. He was research fellow at the DFG research group “Knowledge in the Arts” at the UdK Berlin, and in 2018 DAAD fellow and visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University New York. Since 2017 he is co-director of the AA Visiting School Brussels “The House of Politics,” and contributed to the project “Eurotopie” in the Belgian pavilion at the 16th Architecture Biennial in Venice.

Kontakt: dennis.pohl∂kit.edu,
+49 721 608–47556
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