Jan Engelke, 2019-2023

Jan Engelke's dissertation project "Die Eigenen Vier Wände - Schöner Wohnen im Wirtschaftswunder 1960-'74" examines the architectural history of the private home in the social and political context of the post-war period and thus gets to the bottom of its unbroken popularity despite a widespread loss of significance for architectural practice. The magazine "Schöner Wohnen" reflects popular architectural discourses and the everyday context of architectural production at the time - a perspective that Jan uses to place the ordinary at the center of his research.

Jan Engelke studied architecture at ETH Zurich from 2010 to 2017 and at the Bauhaus University Weimar from 2012 to 2013. In his multi-award-winning free diploma thesis "The Beauty of the Cadastral Plan", he moved the cadastral plan of the city of Zurich together with Lukas Fink in 2017. He then worked in Berlin on publications as well as architecture and exhibition projects. From 2019 to 2023, he did his doctorate at TUM under Prof. Benedikt Boucsein on home ownership in post-war West German history.

Jan Engelke is a scholarship holder of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung.