Christoph Lueder

Biography

Christoph Lueder has practiced and researched architecture and urban design for nearly 30 years. He has taught and lectured in Germany, Switzerland and the UK including at the University of Stuttgart, the ETH Zürich, Canterbury School of Architecture and the Deutsche Architektur Museum.Lueder was project leader for Behnisch & Partners for an urban masterplan and housing development in Ingolstadt, completed in 1997. In 1998, he won a competition for the new University Library in Magdeburg, Germany with the architectural practice of Auer + Weber + Architekten; he then became project leader for the building completed in 2003. He led a project team for a housing development in Anting New Town, Shanghai, China (completed 2004).Publications include a co-authored a report on urbanism "Schlieren/ZH, Dynamische Instrumente für die Peripherie", with M. Angelil and colleagues at the ETH Zürich (2005). Lueder regularly contributs to architectural journals, such as the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, OASE, The Journal of Architecture, The Journal of Architectural Education, ARQ, and others.He currently researches on the roles of diagrams in urban planning, participatory urbanism and irregular urbanism. Recent field research in this area has been undertaken in collaborations with international academic partners, communities and community organisations, in Schlieren, Switzerland (ETH Zürich); Amman, Jordan (German Jordanian University); Bangkok, Thailand (Chulalongkorn University); Mumbai, India (Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Architecture); Santiago, Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) and Valparaiso, Chile (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María Valparaíso).

Research Interest

Christoph Lueder's research engages the 20th and early 21st century history of architecture and urbanism, with a particular concentration on the pervasive roles of diagrams as analytical, generative, narrative and critical devices manifest in design practices that draw on thick cultural milieus and that operate at corporeal, architectural and urban scales.