Regine Leibinger

Regine Leibinger was born in Stuttgart in 1963. She received her master’s degree in architecture from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design in Cambridge in 1991 and her diploma in architecture from the Technical University of Berlin in 1989. Since 1993 she has been leading the architectural practice Barkow Leibinger in Berlin together with Frank Barkow.

The spectrum of Barkow Leibinger’s work ranges from master planning, urban high-rises, office and industrial buildings to residential buildings, installations and prototypical exhibition pavilions.

The firm’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including a retrospective at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin 2020, the Architectural Association in London, the 2008 and 2014 Venice Architecture Biennales, the 2012 Marrakech Biennale, and the 2017 and 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennales.

From 2006 to 2018, Regine Leibinger was Professor of Building Construction and Design at the Technical University of Berlin. After visiting professorships at Princeton University, School of Architecture in Princeton and Harvard University, Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, she was appointed Gensler Visiting Critic at the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning in Ithaca, New York in 2021. In 2022, she taught the module studio “Revisiting Mies” as John Portman Visiting Critic at Harvard GSD, and in the fall of 2023, the module studio “Revisiting Utopia” as Design Critic in Architecture.

Regine Leibinger is a leading figure in cultural institutions and committees, included as a member of the Architecture Section at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, a member of the Board of Trustees of IBA‘27- Internationale Bauausstellung 2027, Stuttgart, and on the Board of Trustees of the American Academy Berlin. From 2010 to 2023 she was a member of the Visiting Committee at MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture in Cambridge. Since 2020 she is a member of the Dean’s Leadership Council at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design. She has also been a permanent member of the Supervisory Board of the TRUMPF Group for several years. In 2020, the American Institute of Architects named her an AIA Honorary Fellow. In 2022, she was appointed as a member of the Munich Urban Design Commission.

Also in 2022, Regine Leibinger founded the non-profit organization “Experimental” (www.experimental-foundation.org/), which supports projects that explore new territories in architecture with the goal of changing how and with what we build.