saai | iaas Wüstenrot Fellows 2025

Frederike Lausch is an architectural historian, Visiting Lecturer for the Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich and co-founder of the Center for Critical Studies in Architecture (CCSA) in Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main. Her research focuses on architecture as discourse by investigating media strategies of architects, their political positionings and professional conflicts over expertise and authority in international settings. Her dissertation (completed 2019, awarded 2020) explored the reception of French Theory in the 1990s architectural discourse of the Anyone Corporation (transcript 2021). Currently, she is researching architecture in development contexts through the Communication Centre of Scientific Knowledge for Self-Reliance (ABE 21/2023), the Darmstadt Institute for Tropical Building and Planning (digital exhibition 2024) and the UNESCO Division for Human Settlements and the Socio-Cultural Environment. She has received grants and fellowships from the Wüstenrot Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Max Weber Foundation and the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Helena Huber-Doudová is the Chief Curator of the Architecture Collection of the National Gallery Prague (NGP). She completed her PhD studies in art history at the University of Zurich. She was principal investigator for NGP of the Czech Science Foundation research project Women in Architecture after 1945 in the Czech Republic (2021–2024, web-database:https://zenyvarchitekture.cz/homepage-en/). She was the commissioner and editor of the Czech representation at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. Among exhibitions she has curated are No Demolitions! Forms of Brutalism in Prague (Prague: NGP, 2020) and 1956–1989: Architecture for All. Lifestyle–Everyday–Media (NGP, 2022). She has published Shared Cities Atlas (Rotterdam: nai010, 2019), Women in Architecture: Critical Studies and Gender Analyses of the Czech Architectural Setting after 1945 (w. Klára Brůhová; Prague: UMPRUM, 2024) and Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter. OMA Script for West Berlin (New York: Routledge, 2024).

Nuno Grancho is an architect, researcher, teacher, and historian whose work studies how spatial practices of power and resistance through architectures and cities of struggle shape the modernity and coloniality of South Asia from the early 16th century to the present day. His research projects are focused on questions of human and material agency, the epistemology and the geopolitics of architecture and urbanism as a technique of social intervention. Of particular importance to his work and writings are the spatial-morphological arrangements in architecture and cities that identify and enable the “private” as withdrawal from the world and the “public” as engagement with that same world and, simultaneously, the tension between these dichotomies. He was a Postdoctoral researcher and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow with the research project “Privacy on the move: two-way Processes, Data and Legacy of Danish metropolitan and colonial Architecture and Urbanism” atthe Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen. From September 2021 until August 2024, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Royal Danish Academy – School of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Copenhagen. In August 2024, he was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, Department of Architecture. Since August 2024, he has been an Affiliated Member of the Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC) at McGill University. Since September 2024, he has been an Affiliated Scholar at the Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen. Since October 2024, he has been an Affiliated Scholar at the Royal Danish Academy – School of Architecture, Design and Conservation, University of Copenhagen.

Daniela Fabricius