
Prof. Dr. Florian Hertweck
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Faculty or Centre | Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences | ||||
Department | Department of Geography and Spatial Planning | ||||
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Université du Luxembourg Maison des Sciences Humaines 11, Porte des Sciences L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette |
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Campus Office | MSH, E02 25-320 | ||||
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Telephone | (+352) 46 66 44 9801 | ||||
Florian Hertweck is Professor of Architecture and Director of the Master's programme Architecture, European Urbanisation, Globalisation at the University of Luxembourg (www.masterarchitecture.lu). Prior to this position, he was full professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles and visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg.
After studying architecture at ENSA Paris-Malaquais and contemporary history of architecture, he received his doctorate in 2006 on the Berlin architectural controversy (Der Berliner Architekturstreit) at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Universität Paderborn.
He has been working as an independent architect since 2005, from 2010 to 2015 in partnership with the French architect Pierre Alexandre Devernois, and since 2016 as part of Studio Hertweck in Luxembourg (www.studio-hertweck.com).
His research and planning activities include design strategies for metropolitan regions, such as Berlin, Paris, Shanghai, Casablanca, Istanbul, the Greater Region and more recently Geneva, together with Milica Topalovic from ETH Zurich, in the context of the Consultation du Grand Genève.
In 2018 he curated, together with Andrea Rumpf, the Luxembourg Pavilion for the 16th Architecture Biennial in Venice, for which he co-edited the accompanying Arch+ “The Property Issue. Ground Control and the Commons”.
His major publications include: Architektur auf gemeinsamem Boden. Positionen und Modelle zur Bodenfrage (Lars Müller Publishers 2020); Positions on Emancipation. Architecture between Aesthetics and Politics (Lars Müller Publishers 2019, with Nikos Katsikis), Dialogic City. Berlin wird Berlin (Walther König Verlag 2015, with Arno Brandlhuber and Thomas Mayfried); the critical edition of Oswald Mathias Ungers’ and Rem Koolhaas’ The city in the city. Berlin: a Green Archipelago (Lars Müller Publishers 2013, with Sébastien Marot); “Climat(s)” (Infolio, 2012, with Thierry Mandoul, Jac Fol and Virginie Lefebvre); Der Berliner Architekturstreit (Gebr. Mann Verlag 2010).
Last updated on: Wednesday, 23 September 2020
Teaching
- Since 2016: Professor in Architecture, University of Luxembourg; Director of the Master programme “Architecture, European Urbanisation, Globalisation”
- 2015-2016: Professor in Design and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism (Théorie et Pratique de la Conception Architecturale et Urbaine), Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles; Director of the French-Chinese Master programme “Ecological Urbanism” with University TongJi Shanghai
- 2013: Visiting Professor Ecole d’Architecture de Casablanca
- 2012: Visiting Professor Université Libanaise à Beyrouth
- 2009-2015: Associate Professor (Tenure) in Design and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism (Théorie et Pratique de la Conception Architecturale et Urbaine), Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles, Member of the Administrative Board (2010-2013); Head of International Programmes (2010-15)
- 2006-2009: Assistant Professor; Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais; Faculty Theory, History, Design („Théorie, Histoire, Projets“ THP)
Practice
- 2010-2016: Managing Partner at Hertweck Devernois Architectes Urbanistes.
- since 2017: Studio Hertweck Architecture Urbanism
See a selection of projects at www.studio-hertweck.com
Degrees
- 2007: Ph.D in history of art. Binational dissertation atUniversité Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Graduate school Histoire de l’Art) and Universität Paderborn (Graduate school Reiseliteratur Kulturanthropologie): “Der Architektenstreit von Berlin. Über das Verhältnis von Stadt, Architektur, Geschichte und Identität in der Berliner Republik 1989-99“; Summa cum laude
- 2003: Master’s degree (DEA) in Modern and Contemporary History of Architecture; Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
- 2001: Master’s degree (DPLG) in Architecture; Ecole Nationale Superiere d’Architecture Paris Malaquais
Research
- since 2018: with ETH Zurich (Chair Architecture of Territory Prof. Milica Topalovic) contribution to the Consultation du Grand Genève with the project “Grand Genève et son sol. Propriété, Ecology, Identité”.
- since 2016: Research unit Identités. Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE); University of Luxembourg. Two current research projects: “Dialogic Architecture” and “A theory of the ground”
- 2010-2016: Laboratoire de l’école d’architecture de Versailles(LéaV); Winner of the call for research projects of the French Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Sustainable Development “Ignis Mutat Res. Thinking Architecture, Cities and Landscapes through the Prism of Energy”, with the project “Territoire de l’énergie. Climats et recroissance des Transfrontaliers“ (Territories of Energy. Climate and Regrowth of Transnational Regions), with Prof. Djamel Klouche and Prof. Philippe Potié.
- 2006-2015: Laboratoire Infrastructure, Architecture, Territoire (LIAT), Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Malaquais
- Research Project 2010: “Infrastructures in shrinking landscapes.“
- Research Project 2009: “The notion of Stadtlandschaft and its current recodification”
- Research Project 2008: “The theory of the Green Urban Archipelago (O.M. Ungers, 1977)“
- Research Project 2007: “Current future projects of world cities with a special focus on Berlin 2020“
Last updated on: 10 Mar 2020

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in IzR Informationen zur Raumentwicklung (2021), 4
2020

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Presentation (2020, October 16)

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in Kaliske, Michael (Ed.) 24. Dresdner Baustatik-Seminar: Reality - Modeling - Structural Design (2020, October)
2019

in Brigitta, Gerber; Kriese, Ulrich (Eds.) Boden behalten - Stadt gestalten (2019)

in Faces, journal d'architecture (2019), (75), 32-33

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in Kmec, Sonja; Philippart, Robert L.; Reuter, Antoinette (Eds.) Ewige Ruhe? Concession à perpétuité? - Grabkulturen in Luxemburg und den Nachbarregionen - Cultures funéraires au Luxembourg et dans les régions voisines (2019)
2018

in Hertweck, Florian (Ed.) Positions on Emancipation. Architecture between Aesthetics and Politics (2018)
2015

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in Brandlhuber, Arno; Hertweck, Florian; Mayfried, Thomas (Eds.) Dialogic City. Berlin wird Berlin (2015)

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in Rouillard, Dominique (Ed.) Afriques. Architecture, infrastructures et territoires en devenir (2015)
2014

in Trasporti & Cultura (2014), 38
2013

in Gravari-Barbas, Maria; Fagnoni, Edith (Eds.) Paris, tourisme et métropolisation (2013)

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Book published by Lars Müller Publishers (2013)
2012
2011

in Rouillard, Dominique (Ed.) L’Infraville. Futurs des infrastructures (2011)

in Engrand, Lionel; Nivet, Soline (Eds.) ARCHITECTURES 80, Une chronique métropolitaine (2011)
2010

in Boulanger, Philippe; Hullo-Pouyat, Céline (Eds.) Espaces urbains à l’aube du 21e siècle. Patrimoine et héritages culturels (2010)
2009

in Bérard, Éwa; Jaquand, Corinne (Eds.) Architectures au-delà du Mur. Berlin, Moscou, Varsovie (2009)

in Rouillard, Dominique (Ed.) Imaginaires d’infrastructure (2009)
2006

in Hertweck, Florian; Bracher, Philip; Schröder, Stefan (Eds.) Materialität auf Reisen. Zur kulturellen Transformation der Dinge (2006)

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in Hertweck, Florian; Bracher, Philip; Schröder, Stefan (Eds.) Materialität auf Reisen. Zur kulturellen Transformation der Dinge (2006)

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Book published by Lit-Verlag (2006)
URL: https://wwwen.uni.lu/research/fhse/dgeo/people/florian_hertweck | Date: Friday, 12 August 2022, 19:37 |