Prof. Dr. Joaquín Medina Warmburg
Joaquín Medina Warmburg (1970 in Cádiz, Spain), studied architecture at ETSA Seville and RWTH Aachen, where he obtained his PhD. He has taught and researched in various European and American universities, most recently at the Universidad de Navarra and Princeton University. From 2011 to 2015, he held the Walter Gropius Chair of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires. He was recently appointed to the KIT, Department of History of Architecture and Building. His teaching and research activities focus on the history of architecture and urban planning in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is particularly interested in the cultural internationalization processes that have led to today's globalization discourse in architecture and urban planning. He pursues the approach of a comparative and unifying history. Special attention is paid to questions of technology and the environment in the sense of an 'environmental history of architecture'.
His books include Proclamas de Modernidad: Walter Gropius, escritos y conferencias 1908-1934. (Barcelona 2018), The Construction of Climate in Modern Architectural Culture, 1920-1980 (with Claudia Shmidt, Madrid 2015) and. Projected Modernism: German-speaking architects and urban planners in Spain, 1918-1936. (Frankfurt 2005).