Since 2015 Dr. phil. Dipl.-Ing. Ulrike Kuch works as research associate at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
Ulrike earned her doctorate in 2014 from the Faculty of Media at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar under the supervision of Professor Lorenz Engell, Philosophy of Media, and Professor Jörg Gleiter, Theory of Architecture at Technical University Berlin. The transdisciplinary dissertation is titled “Die Treppe im Film” (Stairs in Film). In 2016, the teaching award of Bauhaus-Universität was awarded to her. From 2017 until 2022 Ulrike was member of the Senate of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 2019-2022 member of the Ausschuss für Forschung und Projekte, and from March 2022 until September 2023 she was appointed Director of Bauhaus-Institute of History and Theory of Architecture and Planning.
In June 2023 Ulrike was appointed as Vice President for Societal Transformation at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
Ulrike studied architecture at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Teknillinen Korkeakoulu Helsinki/Finland [nowadays Aalto University], University of Arts Berlin and Technical University Berlin. She received her diploma from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in 2005.
Ulrike’s main research areas include architecture as image, phenomenology of architecture, peripheral architectures and global history of architecture.