[Short Resume]
Gabu Heindl is an architect, urban planner and activist in Vienna. Studies in Vienna, Tokyo and Princeton, PhD in philosophy. Her office GABU Heindl Architecture (Vienna) focuses on public space, public buildings, affordable housing as well as collaborations in the fields of history politics and critical artistic practice. From 2013 to 2017 she was chair of the ÖGFA – Austrian Society for Architecture. Numerous international publications, including co-editor of Building Critique, Architecture and its Discontents, Spector Books, 2019 and 2020: Urban Conflicts. Radical Democracy in Architecture and Urban Planning, published by Mandelbaum. From 2018 to 2021 she was Visiting Professor at Sheffield University with a research focus on Urban Commons and subsequently Professor of Urban Design at TH Nuremberg. Since 2019 she is Unit Master at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA), London. Since winter semester 2022/23, she is Head of the Department of Construction Economics and Project Development “Architecture City Economics” at the University of Kassel.
[CV]
Gabu Heindl, Prof. PhD
Architect, urbanist, teacher, activist and civil engineer
Since 2007 director of GABU Heindl Architektur in Vienna, which specializes in realizations of public cultural and social buildings, urban planning as well as research and publications on planning policy and public space.
Since 2022 Professor of Architecture Cities Economies, University of Kassel
Since 2019 Diploma Unit Master at AA, Architectural Association London
2021-2022 Professor of Urban Design at NIT | Nuremberg Institute of Technology
2018-2021 Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield
2007-2021 Teaching at the Institute for Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2004-2007 Assistant Professor at TU Graz
2002-2004 Teaching master studio at TU Delft and a masterclass at Berlage Institute in Rotterdam
2001-2003 Design architect, de Architekten Cie., Amsterdam and Diller+Scofidio, New York
2018-2020 Member of advisory board for architecture, City of Wels
Since 2017 Board member of Wienwoche – Vienna Festival for Art and Activism
2013-2017 President of ÖGFA – Austrian Society for Architecture
2011-2015 Member of Advisory board, of Federal Real-Estate Property company
2011-2013 Member of advisory board for architecture, City of Linz
2008-2013 Board member of ÖGFA, Austrian Society for Architecture
2005-2006: Board member of HDA|Haus der Architektur Graz
Academic Studies
Doctor of Philosophy, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Architecture studies at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Exchange studies at Geidai Universityat Tokyo, Japan
Fulbright Scholar | Postgraduate Studies od Master of Architecture and Urban Design at Princeton University, USA
Books
Stadtkonflikte. Radikale Demokratie in Architektur und Stadtplanung, Gabu Heindl, Wien: Mandelbaum, 2020 (3rd edition, 2022)
Gerechte Stadt muss sein! Studie zur Bestandsanalyse und Zukunftsorientierung einer gerecht(er)en Stadtplanung mit Schwerpunkt Wien, AK WIEN Stadtpunkte 42, 2022
Building Critique. Architecture and its Discontents, Gabu Heindl, Michael Klein, Christina Linortner (Eds.), Leipzig: Spector Books, 2019
Spielräume | free play, Exhibition Reader, Graz: HDA Verlag, 2015
Das Geschäft mit der Stadt, Umbau 28, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Architektur (Ed.), Basel: Birkhäuser, 2015
Just Architecture!, Guest editor of ERA21. 2012 #1, Prag 2012
Position Everyday. Architecture in the context of everyday life, Gabu Heindl, Markus Bogensberger (Eds.), Graz: HDA Verlag, 2009
Five Platforms, Five Ecologies, Review VI, Eds. Institute for Art and Architecture, Salzburg: Verlag Anton Pustet, 2008
Arbeit Zeit Raum. Bilder und Bauten der Arbeit im Postfordismus, Gabu Heindl (Ed.), Wien: turia+kant, 2008
For more publications in books, magazines, newspapers, see:
Publication | gabuheindl.at
Academia.edu
