Reserach focus: Architectural history and theory from the 20th century to the present, architecture between politics and society.

One part of this project which has surprised me in its scope is books about years this has become something of an obsession, and having started, I’ve been working my way up to having a shelf full of them, which means I also need to read the things. Since April 2020 he is researcher in the DFG Research Training Group 'Cultural and Technological Significance of Historic Buildings' at the University of Technology Brandenburg, where he is currently working on his dissertation “The History of the Prora Building Complex”. Florian Illies 1913: The Year Before the Storm. International Bestseller This absolute gem of a book offers a month-by-month account of the year before World War Ione of the most exciting times in the 20th-century (The Observer) It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the year Louis Armstrong first picked up a trumpet. Since 2010 he worked as architect in Germany and Switzerland in the fields of design competition, execution and project management, as freelance writer for architecture publications and volunteered in the earthquake-enhanced reconstruction of a destroyed village in Nepal. Florian Rietmann studied architecture at the Brandenburg University of Technology (Germany) and the University of Granada (Spain) and holds a Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in History and Theory of Architecture from ETH Zürich.

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