PETER MÖRTENBÖCK is Professor of VISUAL CULTURE at the TU Wien, Co-Director of the CENTRE FOR GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE and Senior Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His current research is focused on the architecture of the political community and the economisation of the city, as well as the global use of raw materials, urban infrastructures and new data publics. Together with HELGE MOOSHAMMER, he is curating the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, which will explore the theme of 'platform urbanis'. PETER MÖRTENBÖCK’s appointment at the TU Wien was preceded by two other offers of a professorship in Vienna – Professor of Architectural Design (Geography, Landscapes, Cities) at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2018) and Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2019). Following his professorial habilitation in the field of cultural history at the TU Graz he was immediately offered the position of Professor of Media Aesthetics at the University of Paderborn, a position he held in 2002. Prior to this he was a guest professor of fine art at the University of Art and Design Linz from 2000 to 2001, and from 1998 to 2000 he conducted research as an Erwin Schrödinger Fellow at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and returned there as a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow from 2005 to 2007.
His latest publications co-authored with HELGE MOOSHAMMER include
▶ 2015 “Informal Market Worlds: The Architecture of Economic Pressure”, (with TEDDY CRUZ and FONNA FORMAN), nai010 Publishers
▶ 2016 “Andere Märkte: Zur Architektur der informellen Ökonomie”, transcript
▶ 2016 “Visual Cultures as Opportunity”, Sternberg
▶ 2020 “Data Publics: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy”, Routledge
HELGE MOOSHAMMER is an architect, author and curator. He conducts urban and cultural research in the Department of VISUAL CULTURE at the TU Wien, is Co-Director of the CENTRE FOR GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE, and Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
He has initiated and directed numerous international research projects focusing on issues relating to (post)capitalist urban economics and urban informality, including the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) projects 'Relational Architecture' (2006 –2009), 'Other Markets' (2010 – 2015) and 'Incorporating Informality' (2018 – 2023). In 2008 he was a Research Fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum für Kulturwissenschaften (IFK) in Vienna. He has taught at a number of institutions, including the University of Art and Design Linz, the Merz Akademie Stuttgart, and Goldsmiths College, University of London. HELGE MOOSAHMMER’s current research is focussed on architecture, contemporary art and new forms of urban sociality in a context shaped by processes of trans-nationalisation, neo-liberalisation and infrastructuring. Together with PETER MÖRTENBÖCK he is curating the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, which will be exploring the theme of “platform urbanism”.
His latest publications co-authored with PETER MÖRTENBÖCK include
▶ 2015 “Informal Market Worlds: The Architecture of Economic Pressure”, (with TEDDY CRUZ and FONNA FORMAN), nai010 Publishers
▶ 2016 “Andere Märkte: Zur Architektur der informellen Ökonomie”, transcript
▶ 2016 “Visual Cultures as Opportunity”, Sternberg
▶ 2020 “Data Publics: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy”, Routledge
The two authors are currently working on their new book, “Building Capital: Urban Speculation and the Architecture of Finance”.