Job Advertisements: Scientific Staff (m/f/d) for the Centre for Urbanisation and Peripheralization (CUSP) at TU Munich
NEWS | 14.04.2025
Current job advertisement for research associates (m/f/d) at the Centre for Urbanisation and Peripheralization (CUSP) at the Technical University of Munich. Further information can be found in the PDF file.
Project Documentation: "Landsberg am Lech - Ready for 2055?"
NEWS| 31.03.2025
Project Documentation: "Landsberg am Lech - Ready for 2055?"
Students from the Master's programs in Urbanism and Architecture worked for several months to look at the long-term development of the town of Landsberg. The aim was to design a long-term spatial strategy. Based on a comprehensive analysis of the region and a methodology for working with future trends, the next 30 years were examined. Four student teams each present a vision of the future for “Landsberg 2055” and use an overall strategy and specific spatial proposals to show possible development paths for the region and local stakeholders.
The four student teams focus on different topics and show different development paths for the year 2055. How can resilient land use, inclusive mobility and social cohesion be strengthened and interlinked to achieve sustainable growth? How can the prospects of young residents be improved and education and innovation become key catalysts for positive development? How can Landsberg become a municipality that leads by example through the consistent implementation of sustainable mobility, a liveable city center and a self-sufficient energy supply? And how can Landsberg carry today's qualities into the future in order to be “just as great, only better” in 2055?
Link to the digital documentation (PDF, ca. 70 MB) available on mediaTUM.
New Publication: “Google for President”: Power and the Mediated Construction of an Unbuilt Big Tech Headquarters Project
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As part of a Special Issue in the Architectural Theory Review on the Architecture of Global Governance, this article focuses on Google, a Big Tech company that wields unprecedented influence, including in the realm of governance. Using qualitative content analysis of media of Google’s proposed project for a headquarters in Mountain View, California, the article shows how architects, their utterances and ideas, are staged to construct a targeted narrative of a globally influential company. We argue that it is possible that when discourse is powerful enough, and the media construction is sufficiently convincing, it may not even be necessary to build anymore.
The article is co-authored with Mark Sawyer and Georgia Lindsay of the University of Tasmania. It is open access and available here.
