Ph.D. Sam Koh, since Oktober 2021
Samuel Koh is a writer, researcher, and PhD candidate in the History and Theory of Modern Architecture at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. His research focuses on the ways in which science and technology are implicated in the shifting narratives of human purpose in urban planning. His dissertation examines key moments in the history of Western urban thought, focusing on how cosmological ideas have transformed the goals and values of the urban professions.
He teaches graduate courses on urban history and theory at the Technische Hochschule Nürnberg, and was previously a designer and researcher at earth.net. He holds an M.A in Architecture from Hochschule Anhalt, Germany and a B.Arch from the University of Queensland, Australia. His doctoral research is supported by the Ernst-Abbe-Stiftung.