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Kim Förster

Prof. Dr. Kim Förster

Substitute Professor, Summer Semester 2025

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Rachel Carson Center
Leopoldstr. 11a, 4. OG, 421
80802 Munich

Room: 428

Kim Förster is an architectural historian, usually researching and teaching as a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester and member of the Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARG). Having a background in English and American Studies, Geography and Pedgagogy, he previously, from 2016 to 2018, was Associate Director of Research at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal. His work focuses on knowledge and cultural production, as well as institutional and environmental history, with particular attention to issues of building transition in terms of the social metabolism, practices and policies of energy and material flows, and ways that they are debated and mediated. He is author of “Building Institution” (transcript, 2024) and “Undisciplined Knowing. Writing Architectural History through the Environment” (CCA, 2022), and editor of the series “Environmental Histories of Architecture” (CCA, 2022). His current research project investigates a global history of cement. More information be found on his website.


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