Research
Dr. Frederike Lausch’s research focuses on the political implications of architectural discourses and architectural theories in the 20th century.
Current research interests:
- Post-war architectural discourses in the context of development work and politics: Communication Centre of Scientific Knowledge for Self-Reliance (CCSK, 1980s), Yona Friedman, Eda Schaur, UNU, UNESCO and UIA
- Media of development: self-help manuals
- Institutional history: Institute for Tropical Building (1968–1979) and Institute Planning and Building in Developing Countries (1980–2000) in Darmstadt
- Archives and the power of sources in architectural research (upcoming edited volume)
Previous (but ongoing) research interests:
- Dealing with the architecture of National Socialism after 1945: Max Bächer’s confrontation with Albert Speer (1970s to 1990s)
- Architectural theory since the 1960s
- Processes of translating philosophy into architecture: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in the 1990s (dissertation 2019)
Past research interests:
- GDR architecture education at the Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen in Weimar (oral history project on the subjective experience of the “Wende”)
Publications (selection)
Books
- Fascism and Architecture. Max Bächer’s Confrontation with Albert Speer, CCSA Topics 2, Weimar: mbooks 2021. external page Read here.
- Gilles Deleuze und die Anyone Corporation. Übersetzungsprozesse zwischen Philosophie und Architektur [Gilles Deleuze and the Anyone Corporation. Translation Processes between Philosophy and Architecture], Bielefeld: Transcript 2021. external page Read here.
- Mimesis Bauen. Architektengespräche [Building Mimesis. Conversations with Architects] (with Eva von Engelberg-Dočkal, Hans-Rudolf Meier & Carsten Ruhl), Paderborn: Fink 2017.
- Architektenausbildung in Weimar. 29 Lebensläufe zwischen DDR und BRD [Architectural Education in Weimar: 29 Biographies between East Germany and Reunified Germany], Kromsdorf: Bauhaus-Universitätsverlag 2015.
Edited Volumes
- Utopia Computer. The “New” in Architecture? (with Nathalie Bredella & Chris Dähne), Forum Architekturwissenschaft 6, Berlin: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin 2023. external page Read here.
- Max Bächer. 50 Meter Archiv [Max Bächer. 50 Meters Archive] (edited with Oliver Elser, Carsten Ruhl & Christiane Salge), CCSA Topics 1, Weimar: mbooks 2019. external page Read here.
- Mimetische Praktiken in der neueren Architektur. Prozesse und Formen der Ähnlichkeits-erzeugung [Mimetic Practices in Recent Architecture. Resemblance: Processes and Forms] (edited with Eva von Engelberg-Dočkal & Markus Krajewski), Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net 2017. external page Read here.
Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)
- “The Case for Self-Education – The Self-Help Manuals of the Communication Centre of Scientific Knowledge for Self-Reliance”, in: ABE – Architecture Beyond Europe, No. 21, 2023. external page Read here.
- “Aldo Rossi in the Turmoil of ‘German Identity.’ The German Historical Museum Competition of 1988” (with Phoebus Panigyrakis), in: Histories of Postwar Architecture, No. 7, 2021, 169–199. external page Read here.
Websites and Web Articles
- Website „Vom Institut für Tropisches Bauen zum Fachgebiet Planen und Bauen in Entwicklungsländern“ (with Adrian Franco), https://tropenbauthd.hypotheses.org/, 2024. external page Find here.
- “Direktflug oder von Frankreich über die USA nach Deutschland? – Französischer ‘Post-strukturalismus’ in ANY und ARCH+” [Direct Flight or from France to Germany via the USA? – French “Poststructuralism” in ANY and ARCH+], in: https://dokumentederarchitektur.de/, July 2021. external page Read here.
Podcasts
- Podcast Architekturwissenschaft, No. 2 “Olympiastadion Berlin”, 2022. (Interviewee) external page Listen here.