Team
VERA BÜHLMANN
director of the department
Vera Bühlmann is appointed as professor in Architecture Theory at the the Technische Universität Wien since September 2016. Her work revolves around how architectonic thinking changes with the novel domains of contingency and possibility that come along with digital data, electricity, and information technology, and also vice versa: how architectonic thinking can help us grasp the novel and tremendous power of contemporary technics in a better way.
SUSANNE HEUBLEIN
office
Susanne Heublein is in charge of the ATTP library and the department´s office.
ANJA SUMMERER
office
Anja Summerer is in charge of the department´s office.
OLIVER SCHÜRER
substitute head of the department
Oliver Schürer is author, curator, editor, and works as a Senior Scientist at the department. He has conducted numerous research projects, experimental works, lectures, discursive events, and international publications. His recent research is „Humanoids in Architecture and Urban Spaces” as well as „Im Labor der Nachkriegsmoderne; historisch-kritische Analyse der ersten europäischen Sommerakademie und ihre Position in der internationalen Avantgarde.”
HELEN PALMER
SENIOR SCIENTIST
Helen Palmer is a writer, performer and thinker, and joined the department as a Senior Scientist in November 2020. Her work currently explores linguistic materiality and defamiliarization, abstraction and politics, philosophy and fiction, poetics and science, speculative taxonomies, synaesthesia, scales and spectra. She is the author of Deleuze and Futurism: A Manifesto for Nonsense (2014, Bloomsbury) and Queer Defamiliarization: Writing, Mattering, Making Strange (2020, Edinburgh University Press). She is writing a novel called Pleasure Beach, a feminist version of James Joyce's Ulysses set in her home town of Blackpool, North-West England.
Cris Argüelles
scientific assistant
Cris Argüelles holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSAM), receiving the university’s Achievement Award on her thesis. She’s a member of the COAM and partner in ‘blast’, some of their latest works have been part of the Venice Biennale 2018 Spanish Pavilion. She has been a research fellow in Digital Gnomonics and joined the department in June 2019 to persue her PhD.
Riccardo M. Villa
scientific assistant & PHD Candidate
Riccardo M. Villa joined the department in September 2017. His interests revolve around architecture in its production, under a spectrum of investigation that spans from aesthetics and semiotics to biopolitics.
Carlos Marchi
phd candidate, scholarship holder at the Institute of Urban Research and Innovation (Ipiu), Brazil
Holding an Architecture & Urbanism Bachelor (TU Eindhoven|Mackenzie-Uni), a MBA (Aacsb|Equis|Amba) and a Msc. in Urban Strategies (Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien); Carlos has been working worldwide (MoMa-MAK, Posad-NL, Mad-China, Ipiu-Brazil) simultaneously as an urbanist-architect-researcher, since 2005.
EMMANUELLE CHIAPPONE-PIRIOU
PHD Candidate
Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou is an architect and independent curator, based in Paris. She is a PhD candidate at the ATTP. Her current interests revolve arounf the experimental dimension of architecture, and the political and aesthetical implications of the engagement with notions of information, coding and computation.
Irinel Pintilie
STUDENT ASSISTENT
Irinel Pintilie is a bachelors student in architecture at TU Vienna. He has been working at the department since January 2020.
Marius Valente
STUDENT ASSISTANT
Marius Valente is a master’s student in architecture at TU Vienna. He has been working at the department since October 2019.
Umut Can Gün
STUDENT ASSISTANT
Umut Can Gün is a master’s student in architecture at TU Vienna. He has been working at the department since October 2019.
Anna-Katharina Nickel is a masters's student in architecture at TU Vienna, and works as a tutor at the department since October 2020.
DEYVI PAPO
TUTOR
Deyvi Papo is a master’s student in architecture at TU Vienna, and works as a tutor at the department since October 2020.
Jacob Marian Lindloff is a master’s student in architecture at TU Vienna, and works as a tutor at the department since October 2020.
JULIAN LIETZMANN
TUTOR
Julian Lietzmann is a master’s student in architecture at TU Vienna and works as a tutor at the department since October 2018.
Katharina Sophie Krump is a master’s student in architecture at TU Vienna, and works as a tutor at the department since March 2020.
RADU-ALEXANDRU PARVU
TUTOR
Radu-Alexandru Parvu is a master’s student in architecture at TU Vienna and works as a tutor at the department since March 2020.
RUSLAN DIMOV
TUTOR
Ruslan Dimov is a master’s student in architecture at TU Vienna and works as a tutor at the department since March 2020.
External Lecturers
Réalisateur, interested in virtual virtuosity. He studied at the academies of music, art, theater and dance in the Netherlands, founded workshops for arts and sciences and maintains a framework for construction, stage, image and sound.
“I think, write and create across disciplines in theatre, film, video, print and online, with a deepening interest in humans, a networked existence, architecture, the city, the multiverse and the beginnings of a quantum philosophy."
Architect and jazz journalist. Studied architecture at Gazi University (B.Arch), METU (M.Arch) and holds a PhD from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. His interest in interdisciplinary pickpocketing is legitimized through a research settled at the crossroads of architecture and music, humanities and social sciences.
Jorge Orozco is an architect and researcher based in the CAAD group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s Department of Architecture in Zurich. His research interest is in the overlapping between Information and Communications Technology and architecture. He is fascinated with the new abilities that traditional objects gain by becoming computational objects on-line; he looks at this phenomenon with an architectonic vision.
Miro Roman is an architect and a scholar. His main focus is the overlap of information technologies and architectural articulations.
Guest Professors
Ludger Hovestadt is Professor of Architecture and CAAD (Computer-Aided Architectural Design) at the Institute for Technology in Architecture, ETH Zurich.
Greg Lambert is Dean’s Professor of Humanities, Principal Investigator, CNY Humanities Corridor Founding Director, Humanities Center, Syracuse University, U.S.A.
Valle Medina is a Spanish architect. She is a Geisendorf fellow of ETH Zurich D-Arch, and graduated summa cum laude from its Computer Aided Architectural Design department. She was recently a fellow of the Danish Arts Foundation.
Benjamin Reynolds received a diploma with honors from the Architectural Association, London, where, since 2014 he has been teaching Diploma 5. He has been awarded Villa Sträuli´s tenth anniversary residency for 2016.
Iris van der Tuin is Professor of Theory of Cultural Inquiry in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University and Director of its School of Liberal Arts.
Nanna Verhoeff is Professor of Screen Cultures & Society at the Department of Media and Culture Studies of Utrecht University. She teaches in the MA Arts & Society and the Research MA Media, Art, and Performance Studies.
Elias Zafiris is a research professor in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Athens, and he is also currently a teaching professor on Mathematical Thinking at the TU Vienna, Institute of Architectural Sciences.
IN MEMORIAM
Kari Juhani Jormakka is the founder of the Department for Architectural Theory at TU Vienna, and was Head of the Department since 1997 until his sudden death in January 2013. He was a Finnish architect, an architecture theorist, historicist, and university professor. Jormakka studied at Helsinki University of Technology and at the Technical University Tampere.
