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 in Architecture (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, Greater Geneva, and more recently the functional space of Luxembourg for which he developed with a team of 45 researchers and planners a territorial design strategy in the framework of the call for tenders “Luxembourg in Transition 2050”.
In 2018 he curated, together with Andrea Rumpf, the Luxembourg Pavilion for the 16th Venice Architecture Biennial, and is currently preparing with Milica Topalovic from ETH and the ARCH+-team from Berlin an exhibition on the theme of the Great Repair at the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
His major publications include: Architecture on Common Ground. Positions and Models on the Question of Land (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, 12 October 2022
Teaching
- Since 2016: Full 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
- 2013-15: Visiting Professor at the Akademie der schönen Künste Nürnberg, Chair Prof. Arno Brandlhuber
- 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
- since 2017: Studio Hertweck Architecture Urbanism
- 2010-2016: Managing Partner at Hertweck Devernois Architectes Urbanistes
See a selection of projects at www.studio-hertweck.com
Degrees
- 2007: Ph.D in history of art. Binational dissertation at Université 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
- Currently: “The Great Repair” – exhibition and publication project in collaboration with ETH Zurich / Chair The Architecture of Territory, Prof. Milica Topalovic, and ARCH+ / Berlin. Funded by the German Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
- 2020-22: “Repairing a broken territory” – research and planning prospect for the international call for tenders "Luxembourg in Transition – Spatial visions for the low-carbon and sustainable future of the Luxembourg functional region", launched by the Department of Spatial Planning of the Luxembourgish Ministry of Energy and Spatial Planning. Collaboration between University of Luxembourg (Prof. Hertweck PI) and Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Center for Ecological Learning Luxembourg (CELL), Institute for Organic Agriculture Luxembourg (IBLA), and Office for Landscape Morphology (OLM). www.luxembourgintransition.lu
- 2018-2020 “Le Grand Genève et son sol. Propriété, écologie, identité” – research and planning prospect for the international call for tenders "Visions prospectives pour le Grand Genève. Habiter la ville-paysage du 21e siècle", launched by the Fondation Braillard and the Canton of Geneva. Collaboration between the University of Luxembourg (Prof. Hertweck Co-PI) and ETH Zurich / Chair The Architecture of the Territory, Prof. Milica Topalovic (Co-PI).
- 2017-2020: “Architecture on Common Ground. The Question of Land“ – research and exhibition project for the Luxembourgish Pavilion for the 16th Architecture Biennial in Venice (2018), with two main publications (ARCH+ no. 231/2018 The Property Issue – Ground Control and the Commons, especially the ARCH+-Feature on an Architectural History of the Question of Land, and The Architecture on Common Ground. Positions and Models on the Question of Land at Lars Müller Publishers (2020 in German, and 2021 in English).
- 2011-2013: “Territoire de l’énergie. Climats et recroissance des Transfrontaliers“ – research and planning prospects for the international call for tenders "Ignis Mutat Res. Thinking Architecture, Cities and Landscapes through the Prism of Energy", launched by the French Ministry for Culture and Ministry for Sustainable Development (Prof. Hertweck Co-PI with Prof. Djamel Klouche and Prof. Philippe Potié).
Last updated on: 10 Nov 2022

2022

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in Arch + (2022), 250

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in Nesbit, Jeffrey; Waldheim, Charles (Eds.) Technical Lands. A Critical Primer (2022)

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in Arch + (2022), 250

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in Arch + (2022), (250), 9097
2021

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Book published by Lars Müller Publishers (2021)

in IzR Informationen zur Raumentwicklung (2021), 4
2020

Book published by Lars Müller Publishers (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)