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Nathalie Bredella

studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin and the Cooper Union New York. She received her doctorate in architectural theory from Leibniz Universität Hannover and her habilitation from the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich. Her research focuses on architectural theory and history at the interface with the history of media and technology. She was a Research Fellow at the International College for Cultural Technology Research and Media Philosophy (IKKM) at Bauhaus University Weimar and a Research Fellow at the DFG Collaborative Research Group "Media Cultures of Computer Simulation" (MECS) at Leuphana University Lüneburg. As a visiting professor at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), she taught architectural history with a focus on media and gender theory. She was also a visiting professor at the TU Munich and a guest lecturer at the ETH Zurich.

Teaching concept

Architectural theory is devoted to questions of the social, cultural and aesthetic effectiveness of architecture. I am interested in the media and tools of architecture that condition design practices and are involved in our knowledge production. Starting from current challenges of technological, economic and social change, I want to understand historical developments and project perspectives for the future. The focus is on the interactions between digital cultures and the understanding of architecture. The focus will be on networks that encompass buildings, technical infrastructures, natural and cultural environments, and socio-economic systems. Methodologically, in addition to theoretical reflection, archival work and oral history are components of the teaching as well as the development of formats (exhibitions, installations, publications) that communicate the findings of the seminars to a broad public and discuss the social relevance of architecture.

Nathalie Bredella's publications include:

Monographs:

• 2022 will see the publication of The Architectural Imagination at the Digital Turn in the Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society series.
• Architectures of Spectatorship. Imaginary and Real Spaces in Film, Bielefeld: transcript, 2008.

Editorships:

• 2021 will see the publication of Utopia Computer: The "New" in Architecture ? in the Netzwerk Architekturwissenschaft series, TU Berlin Verlag (ed. with Chris Dähne and Frederike Lausch).
• The Agency of Digital Tools, special issue, Architecture Research Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 1, Cambridge University Press 2017 (curated with Carolin Höfler).
• Infrastructures of the Urban. Soundscapes, Landscapes, Netscapes in the series Urbane Welten Texte zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Stadtforschung, Bielefeld: transcript 2013 (edited with Chris Dähne).