Stefanie Brünenberg

Stefanie Brünenberg is an architectural historian and has been working on the DFG project "Architectural and Planning Collectives of the GDR" at the Department for Historical Research since April 2019. In 2015, she begun research on herDoctoral thesis under the supervision of Werner Durth at the Technische Universität Darmstadt on the significance of the visual and spatial effect of historical city layouts in post-war modern urban planning theories. The focus is set on the publications of the architect and urban planner Wolfgang Rauda (1907-1971) from Dresden, whose theory of an artistic urban design represents a further development and at the same time contemporary transfer of Camillo Sitte's fundamental concepts from the late 19th century to the post-war period up to 1970. The Doctoral thesis entitled "Der Städtebau nach seinen raumkulturellen Grundsätzen. Zur Theorie eines Städtebaus zwischen Tradition und Moderne von Wolfgang Rauda" („City Planning according to the Principles of spatial Cultures. On an urban Theory in between Modernism and Traditionalism by Wolfgang Rauda“) was successfully defended in November 2019.

Stefanie studied architecture at the Bauhaus University in Weimar from 2007 to 2013. Her Master thesis on architectural theory dealt with rational design methods of various architects of the modern era and modernism. After completing her studies, she began working as a research assistant at the Department of Architecture, History and Theory of Architecture, at TU Darmstadt.