12. Oktober
2021
After a successful period in her function as Vice Dean of the Institute of Architecture,
we are pleased to announce that Rector Gerald Bast has appointed Baerbel Mueller as its Dean, as of October 1, succeeding
Klaus Bollinger.
Baerbel Mueller is an architect and researcher
based in Austria and Ghana. She is associate professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and head of the [applied]
Foreign Affairs lab at the Institute of Architecture, which investigates spatial, environmental and cultural phenomena in
rural and urban Sub‐Saharan Africa and the Middle‐East, and founder of nav_s baerbel mueller [navigations in the field of
architecture and urban research within diverse cultural contexts], with a focus on projects located on the African continent
since 2002. She graduated with honors from the Institute of Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From
2002 to 2011, she has been teaching at I oA´s Studio Wolf D. Prix, directing student realization projects and transdisciplinary
courses. Between 2013 and 2014 she was also professor at the New Design University in St. Pölten, Austria. Her work comprises
architecture, urban research, installations, scenography, and curatorial projects, and has been widely shown; e.g. at the
Venice Architecture Biennale, Marrakech Biennial, the Architekturmuseum Pinakothek Munich, and AzW Vienna. She received various
prizes, and several Austrian state grants. She was awarded the Austrian Ars Docendi State Award for excellence in teaching
(2015), edited [applied] Foreign Affairs – investigation spatial phenomena in rural and urban Sub-Saharan Africa (2017) and
Structures of Displacement (2020), co-designed Nubuke Extended, a widely publicized campus project and arts gallery in Accra
(2019), and co-curated the exhibition Ecologies & Politics of the Living (Vienna Biennale 2021). She is co-editor of forA
on the urban (2021–).
We
will keep you informed about all upcoming projects and events at the I oA and look forward to seeing you there!
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