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Dr. Elena Markus joins the department as an adjunct professor

Elena Markus will assume the role of adjunct professor beginning in the summer semester of 2026. She studied architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts and subsequently worked as an architect and freelance contributor to the architecture magazine archithese. Between 2011 and 2014, Elena Markus served as a curator at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel and initiated the exhibition series Spatial Positions, in which she presented radical positions in art and architecture. Among other projects, she co-curated the exhibition Bildbau. Swiss Architecture in the Focus of Photography in Basel and helped design the exhibition catalog. Since August 2014, Elena Markus has been a research associate at the Technical University of Munich. As part of her teaching activities at the Chair of Architecture and Cultural Theory, she organized seminars and workshops on the theory of settlement between 2016 and 2018, as well as exhibitions at the 5th Moscow Architecture Biennale and at the Lothringer13 Kunsthalle in Munich. In 2017, she taught as a visiting lecturer at Tel Aviv University. We warmly welcome her

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The history of architecture aims to discover the relations inbetween the built environment (meaning locations, landscapes, built and non-built projects, ideas and discussions about space) and society. It contextualises design in the global social, political and economic history as well as in the theory and builds connections between design and science, technique and intellectual life.

 

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The history of architecture is essential to educating architects* as responsible citizens who are aware of the impact of their practice on society and the planet. The Chair offers lectures on the global history of the built environment (GdgU) from prehistory to the present, as well as a variety of seminars on aspects of the history and theory of modern architecture and the built environment. Research at the Chair focuses on the history and theory of modern architecture, including the relationship between architecture, life sciences, and social engineering; gender aspects of architectural history; and architecture under socialism.

 

 

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International research project: What actually is "land"?

What exactly do we mean when we talk about "country" and is "country" automatically the counterpart to "city"? Or has our understanding of "land" not rather been constructed, shaped and politically organized? These are the questions addressed by the new research project "Making Land in the Age of Urbanization" at the University of Kassel. The 18-month project by Alla Vronskaya and Megan Eardley is being funded by the Volkswagen Foundation with 400,000 euros.

International research project: What actually is "land"?: More Infos

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