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Karin Wilhelm
"The earth, a good domicile." Ambivalences of the Modern City.
May 22 2009
Karin Wilhelm studied art history, philosophy, and sociology in Heidelberg, Munich, Berlin, and Marburg, focusing on urban development as a form of cultural theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and employing the examples of architecture and city planning after 1945 as a reflection of the history of mentalities in the Federal Republic of Germany, in particular as an index of cultural transfer. From 1991 to 2001 she was a professor at the Graz University of Technology, becoming dean of the Architecture Faculty there in 2000-1, before becoming professor for the history and theory of architecture and the city at the Braunschweig University of Technology. She has held several teaching posts in Germany and abroad and has been involved in extensive international lecturing and exhibition activities (Berlin, London, Stockholm, Venice, and Vienna) as well as research stays in the United States, Britain, Italy, and Switzerland. Karin Wilhelm is also member of a number of boards, including the Merck Society for Art and Science, and since 1999 the editorial board of the official journal of the Federation of German Architects (BDA).
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