Florian Hertweck

Florian Hertweck is an architect (less yellow) and Professor at the University of Luxembourg, where he chairs the master programme in architecture. His work encompasses design strategies and political instruments for the socio-ecological transition of our built environment. In 2018 he curated the Luxembourg Pavilion for the 16th Architecture Biennial in Venice “The Architecture of the Common Ground”. In 2020, Hertweck presented, together with Milica Topalovic from ETH Zurich, a territorial design strategy for Greater Geneva 2050. From 2020 to 2022, he coordinated a consortium of 45 planners and researchers for the international consultation “Luxembourg in Transition 2050”. More recently, Hertweck co-edited two ARCH+ issues on The Great Repair: Politics for the Repair society (no 250/2022) and The Great Repair: A Catalogue of Practices (no 253/2023). He co-curated the Great Repair exhibition, which has been shown in 2023-24 at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and in 2024 at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris.

Hertweck’s major publications include: Architecture on Common Ground. The Question of Land: Positions and Models (Lars Müller Publishers 2020, also in German: Architektur auf gemeinsamem Boden. Positionen und Modelle zur Bodenfrage); Positions on Emancipation. Architecture between Aesthetics and Politics (Lars Müller Publishers 2018, together with Nikos Katsikis), Dialogic City. Berlin wird Berlin (Walther König Verlag 2015, with Arno Brandlhuber and Thomas Mayfried); the critical edition of Oswald Mathias Ungers’ and Rem Koolhaas’ The city in the city. Berlin: a Green Archipelago (Lars Müller Publishers 2013, with Sébastien Marot – also in German and French); “Climat(s)” (Infolio, 2012, with Thierry Mandoul, Jac Fol and Virginie Lefebvre); Der Berliner Architekturstreit (Gebr. Mann Verlag 2010).

florian.hertweck@uni.lu