SHORT VITA

Dipl.-Ing. Anna Baltschun is a Berlin-based architect and URBAN researcher. She graduated from Architecture School at RWTH (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule) Aachen, Germany, WITH THE Dipl.-Ing. Degree in Architecture in 2003. SHE was a guest student at Otto Steidle’s Master Class at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (AdBK) München and FULFILLED HER ACADEMIC EXCHANGE YEAR (ERASMUS) AT THE POLIITECHNIC UNIVERSITY (UPV) IN VALENCIA, SPAIN.

Between 2003 and 2006 she worked in international ARCHITECTURE offices in New York and at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam, before training as an urban researcher at the Bauhaus Kolleg and continuing work as researcher, DEsigner and co-curator at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (2006–2008).

Between 2009 and 2022 she has been employed as assistant professor and BECAME A PhD candidate at the School of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture (ASL) at Kassel University, Germany.

In 2011–2012, she held a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship for doctoral research and visited archives at MoMA New York, the Buckminster Fuller Archive at Stanford University, the Archigram Archives at Westminster University in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Her doctoral thesis, Well-tempered New York: visionary architecture in the environmental decade is in progress, and concerns the question of how technology, human needs, and environmental concerns could integrate into architecture and urban planning to achieve a greater equilibrium with the Earth’s spheres. Her analysis focuses on selected visionary design proposals of the 1960s for the island of Manhattan.

In 2014 she joined the international and transdisciplinary collaborative Research initiative Anthropocene Campus and Curriculum which was held various times at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, a joint Project with the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG) .

She was invited to the lecture series Physiologische Architektur in relation to her application for a Junior Professorship at Weimar University in 2015.

In addition to teaching and researching at Kassel University, she was involved in the interdisciplinary research project SommerWende between 2020 and 2021, developing academic courses for in-depth discussion of the summer heat behavior and design criteria of buildings due to global climate changes.