Team
Verena von Beckerath is an architect and partner at the architecture firm Heide & von Beckerath in Berlin. She pursued studies in sociology, art theory and psychology in Paris and Hamburg and studied architecture at Technische Universität Berlin. From 1992 to 1997 she was a teaching and research assistant at the Chair of Urban Renewal and Design for Prof Adolf Krischanitz at Universität der Künste Berlin and in 1996 founded an architecture firm together with Tim Heide and Andrew Alberts. Verena von Beckerath held a fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, and at the Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo. She was visiting professor at Technische Universität Braunschweig and at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, where she led The Berlin Project design studio. She has been professor of design and housing at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar since 2016 and has served on the faculty council of the architecture and urbanism department since 2019.
Teaching and research assistants
Till Hoffmann is an architect and trained carpenter. He studied architecture at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the Washington Alexandria Architecture Center, Virginia Tech in Alexandria, VA. During and after his studies, he worked for Heide & von Beckerath in Berlin and then for coido architects in Hamburg. He runs the architecture firm Studio Dörner Hoffmann in Weimar with Christine Dörner. Till Hoffmann was a visiting critic at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, in 2014 and has been a teaching and research assistant at the Chair of Design and Housing at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar since 2017. Since 2018, he has been involved with the Haus Bräutigam model project in Schwarzburg.
Hanna Schlösser studied architecture at ETH Zurich and was co-editor of the students' publication "trans magazin" during her time at the architecture department. After her studies, she worked at Staufer Hasler Architekten in Frauenfeld and Schmid Schärer Architekten in Zurich. Hanna Schlösser lectures in the "Advanced Studies in Applied History" programme at University of Zurich. Together with Lorenz Kirchner and Steve Liem, she runs the architectural practice OFICINA in Berlin. She has been a teaching and research assistant at the Chair of Design and Housing at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar since 2019. As part of the interdisciplinary Forschungswerkstatt Krise und Transformation des Eigenheims [11|2022-10|2023], she conducts empirical research on the topic of single-family homes.
PhD
Beverly Engelbrecht completed her preparatory studies at Leipzig School of Design and then studied architecture at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. During her studies, she worked for various architecture practices in Germany and abroad, including Miller & Maranta Architekten in Basel. She was a long-time member of the interdisciplinary and collaborative working collective Studio Wägetechnik e.V. in Weimar. From 2021 to 2023, she held the position of teaching and research assistant at the Chair of Design and Housing at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Beverly Engelbrecht has been writing her dissertation entitled "Architekturen der Sexarbeit. Eine Untersuchung zweier Kieze in Berlin." at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar since 2022, which is being jointly supervised by professors Verena von Beckerath and Mona Mahall.
Blerim Lutolli studied at the University of Pristina, the Czech Technical University in Prague and the University of Maribor. He has worked in architecture firms in Croatia, Slovenia and Switzerland as well as for Gottfried Böhm in Cologne and is partner at Lutolli Architects + Partners in Cologne, Pristina and Munich. Blerim Lutolli has been writing his thesis entitled A view of flexible housing in Germany: The Potential of Flexible Housing in Solving Societal Issues at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar since 2017, which is being jointly supervised by professors Barbara Schönig and Verena von Beckerath.
Former teaching and research assistants
Jessica Christoph
Beverly Engelbrecht
Niklas Fanelsa
Henning Michelsen
Student assistants
Vincent Mank
Annahelen Mende
Former student assistants
Simon Bohnet
Annika Knapp
Paul Knopf
Anastasia Mirkina
Mona Rahal
Zeno Schnelle
Moritz Schnettler
Ernst Schubert
Momoko Yasaka
Maximilian von Zepelin