Professional Career

Academic career

since 2011

Retired Full Professor, Associate Fellow of the Center for Metropolitan Studies

2011-2024

Member of the Bauhaus-Institut of History and Theory of Architecture and Urban Planning

1995-2011

Full Professor for „Sociology of Architecture and Urban Planning“ at the TU Berlin, retired 2011

1989-1999

Scientific cooperation with the Bauhaus Dessau

1986

Habilitation at the TU Berlin: Platz frei für das neue Berlin! Geschichte der Stadterneuerung seit 1871 (Make way for the new Berlin. A history of the city's urban renewal since 1871)

1978-1995

Assistant and Professor at the Institut für Stadt- und Regionalplanung der TU and at the Institut für Soziologie

1978

Dissertation: Städtische Bodenreform in Italien. Die Auseinandersetzung um das Bodenrecht und die Bologneser Kommunalplanung (Urban Land Reform in Italy. The re-structuring of land rights and municipal planning in Bologna), University of Oldenburg, Dr. rer. pol.

1972–1975

Assistant at the Faculty of Architecture at the RWTH Aachen

1972

Diplom of Sociology, FU Berlin

1967–1972

Studies of Social Sciences (Sociology, Political Science, Psychology and Economics) at the Universities LMU München and FU Berlin

1956-1965

Maximiliansgymnasium, Munich

1952-1956

Gebeleschule, Munich

1946

Born in Munich, Germany

Visiting Professor

2000

Lima, Peru

1997

Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

1990-1991

Bauhaus Dessau

DFG Graduate Research Program

2009-2010

Speaker of the Transatlantic Graduate Research Program Berlin-New York, founder member since 2005

Schinkelzentrum at the TU Berlin

2004-2009

Chair of the Schinkelzentrum für Architektur, Stadtforschung und Denkmalpflege, founder member since 2001

Research Focus

  • History of Urban Planning and Urban Design, especially of the European dictatorships of the 20th century.
  • Post-modern Urban Development: urban redevelopment, center redevelopment, suburban urban development
  • Urban Planning und Urban Design in Berlin/Brandenburg

Practice of Urban Planning

since 1985

Listed urban planner, Architektenkammer Berlin

Since 1980

Planning practice urban renewal (small towns in Mittelfranken/Bayern, e.g. Ellingen, Wolframs-Eschenbach, Wendelstein, Uffenheim, Roßtal, Merkendorf, Dollnstein and Wilhermsdorf), Planungsbüro Gruppe DASS

Memberships

  • International Planning History Society (IPHS)
  • Council for European Urbanism Deutschland (C.E.U.D.)
  • Architekten- und Ingenieurs-Verein Berlin-Brandenburg (AIV)
  • Deutscher Werkbund e.V. (DWB)
  • Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten (BDA)
  • Deutsche Akademie für Städtebau und Landesplanung (DASL)
  • Gesellschaft für Stadtgeschichte und Urbanisierungsforschung (GSU)
  • Hermann-Henselmann-Stiftung (Beirat)
  • Vereinigung der Stadt-, Regional- u. Landesplaner e.V. (SRL)