Florian
Urban
Head of History of Architecture and Urban Studies (HAUS)
Mackintosh School of Architecture
biography
Prof. Florian Urban
E-mail: f.urban@gsa.ac.uk
Florian Urban is Professor of Architectural History, and Head of History of Architectural and Urban Studies. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of the Arts in Berlin, an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA and a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Architecture from MIT.
He was born and raised in Munich/Germany and spent most of his adult life in Berlin before moving to Glasgow in 2010. Before joining the Mackintosh School of Architecture he taught at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin Technical University and worked for the German Federal Institute for Research on Construction, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR). Since 2009 he has been the Book Reviews Editor-in-Chief for the journal Planning Perspectives.
He is the Secretary of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN)
Publications: https://radar.gsa.ac.uk/view/creators/518.html
Research interests
-History of architecture in the urban context, particularly in the 20th century,
-Architecture and Energy in historic buildings,
-Postmodern architecture,
-Architecture under socialism, particularly in Poland and in East Germany,
-New Tenements, that is, dense
PGR supervision interests
see research interest