Lutz Robbers ist Architekturtheoretiker und -historiker. Er studierte an der Yale University, promovierte an der Princeton University, war postdoktoraler Research Fellow am Internationalen Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der RWTH Aachen. Seine Forschungen beschäftigen sich mit den medialen Bedingungen architektonischen Wissens.

Lutz Robbers is an architectural theorist and historian. He studied at Yale University, received his doctorate from Princeton University, was a postdoctoral research fellow at the International College for Cultural Technology Research and Media Philosophy (IKKM) at Bauhaus University Weimar and a research assistant at RWTH Aachen University. His research focuses on the media conditions of architectural knowledge.

French-German Masterclass
"Disruptions: The Ecolization of Design / Perturbation comme ‚écologisation‘ du projet"
Jade University Oldenburg / ENSA Versailles
Oct/Nov 2024

4N Research Network Meeting
23 Oct 2024

Talk: "Film as Benefactor: The Case of Joseph Gantner and Das Neue Frankfurt"
Conference: European Architectural History Network (EAHN) 8^th International Conference
Athens, 19-23 June 2024

Talk: "Designing Urban Design"
Symposium: Urban Design History and Theory
Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment
TU Delft, 1-3 Nov 2023

Talk: "Design Labs: Transformation durch entwerferisches Handeln"
Symposium: Gesellschaftliche Transformationen: Neue Qualitäten durch gesellschaftliche Interaktionen Projekt „Nouveaux Horizons“ (21-22 Sept 2023
Écoles des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Centre George Simmel
Paris, 21-22 Sept 2023

Keynote Lecture: "Architecture Ltd.: Sustainability as Fostering Dispositions"
Symposium: Towards an Architectural Theory of Sustainability
Lancaster University School of Architecture, in cooperation with DAStU, the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano
Lancaster, 5-6 July 2023

Talk: "Designing Rooms-for-Play as/through Digital Tools"
Conference: Educating the Cosmopolitan Architect
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE)
Reykjavik, 22-24 Jun 2023

Talk: "Eido-dynamics and Cinéplastique: Modern Space’s Unheeded Infatuation with Animation" Symposium: Animated Architecture. Movement and Mobility in the Experience of Modern Architecture and Design TU Wien Wien, 16-17 June 2023

Talk: "Berlin 1967: Theory as Expanded Practice"
Annual Conference, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)
Pittsburgh, 27-30 April 2022

Exhibition (Curatorship): Corona Folly - Architectural Speculations in the Pandemic
19-29 April 2022
Schlaues Haus, Oldenburg

Talk: “Infrastructure of Contention”
Workshop: Ground Conditions, TU Delft
14 March 2022

Talk: “‘Elementary-magical’: Hilberseimer as Theorist of Media”
Conference: Ludwig Hilberseimer: Infrastructures of Modernity (27-29 Oct 21)
Bauhaus Stiftung Dessau

Monographs and Edited Publications

2019      Streitsache: Architecture as Matter of Contention II. Edited Volume together with Axel Sowa and Kim Förster, Candide. Journal for Architectural Knowledge 11. Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag.  

2016      Streitsache: Architecture as Matter of Contention I, Edited Volume together with Axel Sowa, Isabelle Doucet and Kim Förster, Candide. Journal for Architectural Knowledge 10. Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag.

2012      Modern Architecture in the Age of Cinema: Mies van der Rohe and the Culture of the Moving Image, 1911-1930, Dissertation, Princeton University, School of Architecture  

Articles in Journals and Joint Publications

2020    

Mies, Montage, Mimesis. In: Modelle und Modellierungen von Räumen und Lebenswelten in Fotografie und Film, ed. Marie-Christin Kajewski. Berlin: Reimer Verlag.

In the Midst of the Revolution: The Rond-Point as Media of Contention. In: Footprint 27.

Review of Martino Stierli, Montage and the Metropolis. Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space, 2018, by Martino Stierli. Transbordeur: photographie histoire société, no. 4 (2020). https://transbordeur.ch/fr/2020/martino-stierli-montage/.

2019     

Montage as Architectural Media. In: Diaphane Architektur, ed. Ulrike Kuch. Bielefeld: Transcript.

Was will das Volk? La Maison du Peuple. In: Kritische Berichte, 2, ed. Anna Minta, 5–14.  

BIM. Interview with Dennis R. Shelden. In: Candide - Journal for Architectural Knowledge 11, 138-154

Mies: A Fighter For Film (Part I). Bitácora Architectura 40: 48–57.

2018     

Mies’s Laughter. In: Mies van der Rohe: Barcelona-1929, ed. Remei Capdevila-Werning. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 162-179.

Animation. In: Critical Terms of Design, ed. Barbara Wittmann, Berlin: Diaphanes

2017     

“This Type Lives”: Montages of Architectonic Imagery. In: Mies van der Rohe: Montage Collage, ed. Andreas Beitin. London: Koenig Books, 88–105.

2016     

Without Pictorial Detour: Benjamin, Mies and the Architectural Image. In: Footprint 18: 27-50.

1912 - Hellerau as Spielraum. In: Participation in Art and Architecture: Spaces of Participation and Occupation, ed. Martino Stierli and Mechtild Widrich. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 197–226.

Editorial. Special Issue: Streitsache: Architecture as Matter of Contention. In: Candide - Journal for Architectural Knowledge 10: 4-7.

2015    

Behne, Giedion, Faure: Architekturgeschichte im Zeitalter des Films. In: Film als Medium der Architekturgeschichte, ed. Barbara Schrödl, Bielefeld: Transcript.

The Grey of the Sky. In: Candide - Journal for Architectural Knowledge 9: 113–39.

2014     

Silhouettes in Space. The Light Wall in the Architecture of Mies van der Rohe. In: 'Le Jeu Savant': Light and Darkness in 20th Century Architecture - Luce E Oscurità Nell’architettura del XX Secolo, ed. Silvia Berselli. Mendrisio: Mendrisio Academy Press, 189–200.

Delirious Box. In: Humboldt-Box: Zwanzig architekturwissenschaftliche Essays über ein Berliner Provisorium. Bielefeld: Transcript.

2013

Platzbildung bei Mies van der Rohe. In: Agora und Void : Die Funktion der Mitte in Architektur und Städtebau, ed. Hans-Georg Lippert. Dresden: Thelem, 63-96.

Filmkämpfer Mies. In: Mies van der Rohe im Diskurs: Innovationen - Haltungen - Werke, Aktuelle Positionen, ed. Kerstin Plüm. Bielefeld: Transcript,  63–96.

Die Metropole als Attraktion: Der Blick auf die Stadt im frühen Film. In: Metropolen 1850-1950 : Mythen - Bilder – Entwürfe, ed. Jean-Louis Cohen and Hartmut Frank. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 247–66.

2012     

Film als Dispositiv in G : Material zur Elementaren Gestaltung. In: Kritische Berichte 4: 32–43.

2011     

Espaces pour jeux de lumière : Mies van der Rohe, le cinéma, l’innervation. In: Spielraum : W. Benjamin et l’architecture, ed. Libero Andreotti. Paris: Editions de la Villette, 87–114.

2010     

Kentin Sakin Görüntüsünün İçinde: Mies van der Rohe ve Sinematik Zaman. In Sekans, no.11.

2006     

In the City’s Soft Image : Mies van der Rohe and Cinematic Time. In: Design and Cinema : Form Follows Film, ed. Ali Vatansever, Belkıs Uluoğlu, and Ayhan Enşici. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Fritz-Thyssen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2-years)

Exzellenzinitiative Land Thüringen, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Research Group "Werkzeuge des Entwerfens“ [Tools of Design], IKKM Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, (18 Months)

Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte / Centre allemande d’histoire de l’art, Paris, Research Fellowship, Project “Fabrication and Fiction of the Metropolis, Germany and France 1850-1950” (under the direction of Jean-Louis Cohen and Hartmut Frank)

Canadian Center of Architecture (CCA), Montreal, Canada, Research Scholarship

Nevsky Institute (Saint Petersburg, Russia) and Archival Research Fellowship at Moscow, Council on Regional Studies, Princeton University

Princeton University, Graduate School Fellowship

Yale University. Merit Scholarship

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), Scholarship for a one-year fellowship in the United States

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