Chair staff

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  Jörg Stollmann

  Professor

  Jörg Stollmann is an architect and urban researcher based in Zurich and Berlin. He is co-founder of urbaninform. Jörg Stollmann graduated form the University of the Arts Berlin and Princeton University. He works in various collaborations, for example with the artist Ines Schaber, and was principal of INSTANT Architects with Dirk Hebel. He taught at the University of the Arts Berlin, the Technical University Berlin and ETH Zurich. At ETH, he taught the MAS Program in Landscape Architecture and was Director of Studies of the MAS Program in Urban Design. He was part of the curatorial team of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2009 for the section Squat. The Informal City under Construction.

  Jörg Stollmann ist Architekt und Stadtforscher in Zürich und Berlin. Er ist Mitbegründer von urbaninform. Jörg Stollmann studierte an der Universität der Künste Berlin und Princeton University. Er arbeitet in verschiedenen Kollaborationen, z. Bsp. mit der Künstlerin Ines Schaber, und war Inhaber von INSTANT Architekten mit Dirk Hebel. Er lehrte an der Universität der Künste Berlin, der TU Berlin und der ETH Zürich. An der ETH unterrichtete er das MAS Programm in Landschaftsarchitektur und war Studiendirektor des MAS Programm Urban Design. Er war Teil des kuratorischen Teams der Internationalen Architektur Biennale Rotterdam 2009 für die Sektion Squat. The Informal City under Construction.

  (fig: TU Berlin/PR/Ulrich Dahl)

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  Veljko Marković

  Research Associate

  Veljko Marković (b. Serbia) is a Berlin-based architect currently holding the position of Research Associate at the Chair for Urban Design and Urbanization at the Technical University of Berlin – Institute for Architecture since 2018 and is an Affiliated Member of the CRC 1265 Research Project “Refiguration of Space” since 2022 as a PhD candidate.
  His research interests lie at the intersection of architecture and cultural domains, focusing on their entanglements as spatial-political transformative forces for practice, while also acting as catalysts for broader societal change. His work critically engages with the phenomenon of “Property Porn,” a media-immersive spectacle of spatial commodification, by examining its influence on spatial co-production shaped by the interplay of power, market forces, and the desire for escapism. Veljko obtained a Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture in 2012, as well as a Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg in 2016, where he studied at the Chair for Architecture and Urban Studies, a research-based Master’s program. He has gained practical experience in several Berlin-based architecture offices, after which he continued his own practice, collaborating with architects and artists on various projects

  Veljko Marković (geb. in Serbien) ist ein in Berlin ansässiger Architekt, der seit 2018 die Position des Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiters am Lehrstuhl für Städtebau und Urbanisierung des Instituts für Architektur der Technischen Universität Berlin innehat und seit 2022 als Promotionskandidat assoziiertes Mitglied des SFB 1265 Forschungsprojekts „Refiguration von Räumen“ ist.
  Seine Forschungsinteressen liegen an der Schnittstelle von Architektur und Kulturwissenschaften und konzentrieren sich auf deren Verflechtungen als räumlich-politische Transformatoren für die Praxis, die zugleich als Katalysatoren für breitere gesellschaftliche Veränderungen wirken.
  Seine Arbeit setzt sich kritisch mit dem Phänomen des „Property Porn“ auseinander – einem medial-immersiven Spektakel der räumlichen Kommodifizierung – und untersucht dessen Einfluss auf die räumliche Koproduktion, die durch das Zusammenspiel von Macht, Marktkräften und dem Wunsch nach Eskapismus geprägt ist.
  Veljko erwarb 2012 einen Masterabschluss in Architektur an der Universität Belgrad – Fakultät für Architektur sowie 2016 einen Master of Fine Arts an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg, wo er am Lehrstuhl für Architektur und Stadtforschung im forschungsbasierten Masterprogramm studierte.
  Er sammelte praktische Erfahrung in mehreren Berliner Architekturbüros, bevor er seine eigene Praxis fortsetzte und mit ArchitektInnen und KünstlerInnen an verschiedenen Projekten zusammenarbeitete.

   

  veljko.markovic(a)tu-berlin.de

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  Jeanne Lacour

  Research Associate

  Jeanne Lacour is a French architect and urban planner based in Berlin. She is interested in decision-making processes and the meaning of inhabitants participation in urban design projects. Her research focuses on the value created by the relationship between places and inhabitants and on how this value can be taken into account in the design process.

  She graduated from the École d’architecture de la Ville et des Territoires (School of Architecture of the City and Territories) Paris-Est with a degree in architecture and urban design. Thanks to several years spent as a project manager in architecture and urban design agencies in Paris, Anyoji Beltrando and then Shahinda Lane, she has gained experience on a wide variety of projects. With the associations Chorographe and Les Lignes, which she co-founded, she developed “Chimen an nou”, a participative digital map to improve daily mobility in Guadeloupe by sharing sensitive knowledge and personnal experiences. She is also a member of the interdisciplinary collective Officina Kreuzberg.

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  Jamie-Scott Baxter

  Designer and Research Associate

  Jamie-Scott Baxter, Dr.-Ing., is an architect-planner and sociospatial researcher with a focus on urban natures. At the intersection of design and science, Jamie coordinates the “Planetary Tactics for Cohabitation” lab within the BUA project “Re-Scaling Global Health. Human Health and Multispecies Cohabitation on an Urban Planet” at the Chair for Urban Design and Urbanisation, Technical University Berlin. In this constellation, he jointly coordinates the sub-project “The Health Effects of Biophilic Urbanisms: Planning with Pathogens in the United Kingdom”. Together with Laura Kemmer, he coordinates the project “Designing with the Planet. Connecting riparian zones of struggle in São Paulo, Jakarta and Berlin” (South Designs Initiative, Swiss National Science Foundation).  He is PI on “Planetability”, a 2-year DAAD-CAPES funded project that brings together planetary health and multispecies cohabitation discourses between Brazil and Berlin. And he currently coordinates the Planetary Health Ambassador Program at TU Berlin. Additionally, Jamie is joint executive editor at Architecture and Culture.

  Research interests include: planetary health and multispecies urbanism, critical conservation, botanic gardens, rural-urban relations, hybrid mapping and multi-sited ethnography, new materialisms and critical (spatial) theory.

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  Maria Dannecker

  Administration

  Maria Dannecker has been the administrative assistant for the Chair since March 2025. She studied for a Master of Arts in Art Education at the Zurich University of the Arts, where she investigated in how exhibitions function as social spaces within the Curatorial Studies program. With this focus on critical art mediation, she was involved in numerous international exhibition projects. In 2018, Maria joined the Technical University of Berlin through the artistic postgraduate programme Bühnenbild_Szenischer Raum, which she coordinated until 2023. As part of the CUD team, she is assisting cue with a focus on the administration and organization of matters relevant to and for the chairs.

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  Franka Matthes

  Student Assistant

  Franka Matthes kommt aus Köln und studiert seit 2020 an der Universität der Künste Berlin Architektur. Zuvor schloss sie ein Bachelor-Studium der Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften in Frankreich ab. Außerdem ist sie Teil des Redaktionsteams der Protocol, ein studentisch geführtes Magazin, das jährlich wechselnde Themen des Architekturdiskurses bearbeitet.

  Franka Matthes is from Cologne and has been studying architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2020. Previously, she completed a bachelor’s degree in political and social sciences in France. She is also part of the editorial team of Protocol, a student-run magazine that deals with different topics of architectural discourse every year.

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  Former Staff Members

  Ivana Teixeira, Guest Researcher

  Steffen Klotz, Research Associate

  Safa Ashoub, Phd Candidate

  Jonathan Madeira Rocha, Guest Researcher

  Katharina Hagg, Research Associate

  Anna Heilgemeir, Research Associate

  Mathias Heyden, Research Associate

  Sandra Bartoli, Research Associate

  Anita Kaspar, Research Associate

  Julia Köpper, Research Assistant

  Fee Kyriakopoulos, Research Associate

  Joachim Schultz, Research Associate

  Jakob Tigges, Research Associate

  David Levain, Research Associate

  Anne Fenk, Lecturer

  Karin Bradley, Post-Doc

  Anna Barwanietz, Student Assistant

  Daniel Bruns, Student Assistant

  Alexander Grams, Student Assistant

  Hugo Guiomar, Student Assistant

  Dorothee Hahn, Student Assistant

  Leonie Hartung, Student Assistant

  Theresa Jung, Student Assistant

  Malte Kloes, Student Assistant

  Ivan Leroy, Student Assistant

  Johanna Maierski, Student Assistant

  Daniela Mehlich, Student Assistant

  Oscar Mehlitz, Student Assistant

  Florian Müller, Student Assistant

  Kathrin Schömer, Student Assistant

  Frederik Springer, Student Assistant

  Andreas Wende, Student Assistant

  Greta Wörmann, Student Assistant

  Dagmar Pelger, Guest Lecturer & Research Associate

  Seonju Kim, Research Associate

  Menatullah Hendawy, Research Associate & PhD 2021

  Yamil Hasbun Chavarria, PhD 2019

  Sarah Schmidt, Student Assistant

  Karola Schäfermeier, Student Assistant