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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

Website: Personal Website

Kim Förster is an architectural historian, a senior lecturer in architectural studies at the Manchester School of Architecture, 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 the author of Building Institution: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York 1967–1985 (transcript, 2024) and “Undisciplined Knowing: Writing Architectural History Through the Environment,” which appeared in Environmental Histories of Architecture (Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2022), a series of essays edited by Förster. His current research project investigates a global history of cement.


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