Biography

Bernadette Krejs, Architect and Researcher

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Bernadette Krejs is an architect and researcher based at Vienna University of Technology, Research Unit of Housing and Design. She is currently doing her PHD on ‘Architecture as Image’ with a focus on the production and effects of visual representations of housing. She collaborates on different research projects including: Discourse space housing Vienna - positions between the common good and prosperity in Vienna's housing policy in the context of Europe(TU Vienna, 2020 – ongoing), Intensified Density - small-scale re-densification in modular construction(TU Graz, 2017), PLANNING UNPLANNED Function and Functionality of Art in the Context of Urban Development(TU Wien, 2012). She is co- editor and author of the book Cartography of Smallness – Learning from Japan, Small-Scale Densification Strategies for Vienna(2018) and Mapping the Croatian Coast - A Road Trip to Architectural Legacies of Cold War and Tourism Boom(2020). As part of the Claiming*Spaces collective, she co-hosted the international conference CLAIMINGSPACES – Feminist Perspectives in Architecture and Spatial Planning.(2019)