22 February 2005
Thomas Schroepfer Appointed Assistant Professor of Architecture
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Thomas Schroepfer as Assistant Professor of Architecture, effective 1 July 2005. A design critic at the GSD during the current year, he teaches in the core design studio sequence and courses on materials and construction.
Schroepfer’s doctoral dissertation at the GSD examined the impact of globalization on contemporary design dynamics, theoretical discourse, and building practices. This research is also the topic of a forthcoming publication in the GSD Design and Technology Report Series, which will appear later this year. He is a registered architect in Germany and has been associated, in addition to his own private practice, with several architectural practices in Berlin, among them Studio Daniel Libeskind, as well as with design and building firms involved with projects in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz. While working as project manager for the Research and Development Unit of Hochtief Group in Germany, he was also an editor of FuE Forum, a quarterly international research publication. Schroepfer has been a guest critic at the Technical University Berlin, University of the Arts Berlin, and the Cooper Union New York. His own projects have received awards and recognitions, including from the Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA) in 2002, and his work has been exhibited in Berlin, Cairo, New York, and Singapore.
Schroepfer received concurrently a BArch from the Cooper Union and a Diplom-Ingenieur Architektur from the Berlin University of the Arts, and subsequently an MArch and a DDes from the GSD.
Please join me in congratulating Schroepfer on his appointment and in welcoming him to the ladder faculty of the GSD.
Alan Altshuler
Dean, Faculty of Design