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architect and professor at the Institute for Urban Design, ETH Zurich  Kerstin Höger |
© photo: Roman Keller
Kerstin Höger studied architecture at the Technical University Berlin, the MIT and the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Boston. Next to her practical activity as an architect in Germany, Switzerland and the US, she holds an assistant professorship at the Institute for Urban Design of the ETH Zurich where she has been lecturing since 1999 in design studios, seminars and master classes and - programmes. Her current design and research projects focus on campus design, corporate architecture and urbanism, city branding as well as the (re)activation of cities and regions. She is the author of "Campus and the City: Urban Design for the Knowledge Society" and is currently at work on a publication on "Branding and City". Kerstin Höger furthermore collaborates on projects at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the MIT Media Lab in Boston, as well as the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Cambridge/USA.
She regularly appears as a speaker at international conferences and architectural festivals and acts as a guest professor and consultant at numerous public and private institutions such as e.g. the Bauhaus Dessau, the Berlage Institute, CUREM, the EPF Lausanne, the Halter enterprises, Harvard University, HDK Zurich, Hochschule Lichtenstein, the MIT, the NTNU Trondheim, Novatlantis, NUS Singapore, TKK Helsinki, the Technical University Berlin and Delft, UBS Arts Forum, Steirischer Herbst Graz, the Universities of Karlsruhe, Kassel, Stuttgart and Zagreb. She has written for numerous specialist magazines and publications and is working towards a PhD on the topic of " Corporate Urbanism and Branding: Sustainable Urban Design Strategies within Brandhubs" (ETH-internal research project since 2002).
Amongst other accolades, she has received a Fulbright scholarship (1996-98), the Erwin-Stephan Diplompreis (1999), the ETH research scholarship (2002-03), the ETH-internal research project (2004-07) and various architectural awards.
Valid as of: 27.5.2008