Critic of Architecture, Architect and Urban Planner;

Editor of ‘Bauwelt’ magazine since 1995.

Since 2010, deputy editor-in-chief of the magazines ‘Bauwelt’ and ‘Stadtbauwelt’

Lectures and publications, many of these on the subject of residential housing and city transformation from the 1950s to the present.
 

Curator of the international Bauwelt Conferences since 2014:
* ‘Generation Stadt’ on urban density and housing (2014)
* ‘Zukunft Energiewende’ on climate change in the city (2015)
* ‘Produktive Stadt’ on a new comprehensive understanding of urban mixity (2016)

Responsible editor of the corresponding issues of Stadtbauwelt

Co-publisher of ‘Public Spheres’, a book about the current changes in public spaces in Europe taking the Europan competition as an example.

2008 - 2014: Co-author of the expert reports commissioned for the LIN office in Paris/Berlin regarding the International Urban Consultancy Group for the future Development of the Paris Metropolitan Area – ‘Grand Paris’.

Member of many architectural and urban development juries;
among others, juror in the ‘Grand Prix d’ Urbanisme’ 2005-2008,
the French award for urban planning;
member of several Europan juries (E8-2006 in Germany, E9-2008 in Spain, E10-2010 in France, E12-2014 in Austria, E14-2017 in Norway).
Member of the scientific committee of Europan Germany (since 1999).
Member of the Schelling-Price Committee, distributing the only international Price for Architectural Theory in Germany