Sonja Beeck - Rien ne va plus - but there is a lot to do

02/03/12 • 35 min

Conference on Architecture, European Urbanisation and Globalisation

Dr. Sonja Beeck studied architecture at the RWTH Aachen. After 8 years of practice in architectural offices in Cologne and London, she went to New York, Las Vegas and Walt Disney Corp. to research for her PHD: „Theming _a method for semantic programming of space”, which she finished in 2003 at the University of Karlsruhe and at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. As a member of the academic staff of the Bauhaus from 2000 to 2010, she worked there for the long term laboratory IBA STADTUMBAU 2010 and was responsible for the project development and managed many projects inventing new spatial development strategies for regions with shrinking population. Besides she has been teaching „Stadt und Landschaft“ at the University of Innsbruck from 2006 to 2008. After the final exhibition of IBA STADTUMBAU 2010, Sonja Beeck is now teaching “Urban development and management in the international context” at the University of Kassel und works as a consultant for the local authorities in Berlin to prepare new IBA for Berlin 2020.

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Prof. Dr. Wouter Vanstiphout (Heist op den Berg/Belgium 1967) is an architectural historian, founding partner of Crimson Architectural Historians in Rotterdam and Professor of Design & Politics at the Faculty of Architecture of Delft Technical University in the Netherlands. As a practitioner he has directed the renewal of the Dutch Industrial Satellite Town of Rotterdam Hoogvliet and advises municipalities, the national government, housing corporations and project developers on matters relating to urban renewal, cultural heritage and spatial and urban politics. He has written extensively about post war urbanism, urban renewal policies and projects and recently has lectures and written extensively on the relationship between urban riots and urban planning. He is a regular columnist at the British Architecture weekly Building Design and this spring will publish a book in the Design & Politics series at 010 Publishers, Design and Politics #6, Four World Cities Face Off. With his chair Wouter Vanstiphout is curating an exhibition as part of the 5th International Architecture Biennale of Rotterdam, called Design As Politics.

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