Christian Gaenshirt
ICAR/14 – Architecture and Urban Composition Visiting ProfessorDr. Christian Gänshirt is an architect, researcher and educator from Berlin, Germany. He received his PhD (Dr.-Ing.) from the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU Cottbus), Germany, and his architecture diploma from Karlsruhe University (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT), Germany. He also studied with Luigi Snozzi at the École Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne, Switzerland. He currently is a Visiting Researcher at the Politecnico di Milano. He was a Senior Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China, where he started and directed the Master of Architectural Design programme, achieving the first RIBA part 2 validation for such a programme in mainland China. He was a Visiting Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, the University of Hong Kong, and at Kassel University. He taught at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Leibniz University Hanover, and the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU Cottbus), Germany. He was a project architect in the office of Álvaro Siza, and worked with architect José Paulo dos Santos in Oporto. He is registered with the Berlin Chamber of Architects since 1996, when he set up his own practice. He co-edited the Internet architectural theory magazine [www.cloud-cuckoo.net] and published in magazines, journals, and national newspapers. His book Tools for Ideas – Introduction to Architectural Design has been published in German, English and Chinese.