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Dr. sc. ETH Britta Hentschel

Employee
University Liechtenstein Fürst-Franz-Josef-Strasse 9490 Vaduz Liechtenstein
Senior Lecturer Built Heritage and Upcycling
University Lecturer for History and Theory in Architecture
Member of the specialist group "Built Heritage & Upcycling"

As an experienced university lecturer for history and theory in architecture, Britta Hentschel conveys the historical dimension of architecture in all its professional breadth and historical depth: starting with concrete buildings and objects, she teach-es the history and theory of architecture and art, urban plan-ning and landscape architecture with verve in lectures, semi-nars and inputs at Bachelor's and Master's level, touching on meta-themes and always relating current concerns and prob-lems in architecture to history. In view of climate change, scar-city of resources and inner urban development, this is current-ly becoming increasingly relevant in design and planning.
In addition, Britta Hentschel also teaches academic writing and is always looking for synergies between the university and the state. In 2021, she was awarded the "Best Teaching Award" by the students of the University of Liechtenstein.

In her research, Britta Hentschel devotes herself intensively to the built heritage: she is currently working on a habilitation project on the "Architectural History of Poverty". In a longue durée study, she is constantly posing the question of the archi-tectural and social position of poverty and neediness in their urban spatial location from antiquity to the present day. The aim is to analyze European welfare architecture within a global architectural-cultural horizon and, in particular, to make mo-ments of upheaval visible.
2004 2009
Doctorate at the ETH Zurich, Department of Architecture,
Institute for History and Theory of Architecture, Switzerland with a thesis on "Gaetano Koch (1849-1910). Building for the Third Rome"
1996 2003
Study of Art History, Philosophy and Historical Catholic
Theology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, the Università degli Studi Tor Vergata Rome and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn, Germany
1996
Abitur (A-Levels) at the Louise-Schroeder-Gymnasium in
Munich, Germany
since 2022
University Lecturer for History and Theory in Architecture at the Liechtenstein School of Architecture (LSA), University of Liechtenstein
2021 2023
Building consultant for site development, Cantonal
Monument Preservation Basel-Stadt at the Building and Transport Department of the Canton of Basel-Stadt,
Switzerland
2019 2020
Area consultant for townscape and urban development, De-partment Spatial Planning at the Office for Spatial Develop-ment of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
2017 2019
Area consultant for inventory and cantonal Protection Plan revision at the Office for Monument Preservation of the Canton of Thurgau, Frauenfeld, Switzerland
2017 2022
Lecturer for the History of Architecture, Art and Urban Planning at the Institute for Architecture and Spatial Development of the University of Liechtenstein

Parallel to this, practical work at the Office for Monument Preservation of the Canton of Thurgau (2017 - 2019) and since 2019 as area supervisor for townscape and urban development at the Office for Spatial Development of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
2016 2017
Martin Graßnick Visiting Professor for the History of Architec-ture and History of Urban Planning at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
2016
Lecturer at the Institute of Art History at the University of
Zurich, Switzerland
2011 2012
Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of
Design, Cambridge/Mass., USA
2009 2011
Head of the "Workshop for Cultural History. Doctoral Colloquium for Architecture and Art History" of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich at the Collegium
Helveticum, Zurich, Switzerland
2009 2016
Research Assistant I for teaching and research at the Chair of Art and Architectural History of Prof. Dr. Andreas
Tönnesmann and Prof. Dr. Ita Heinze-Greenberg at the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2007 2009
Scientific assistant for teaching and research at the Chair of Art and Architectural History of Prof. Dr.
Andreas Tönnesmann at the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2011 2012
Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge/Mass., USA
2006 2007
Doctoral Fellow of the Max-Planck-Society at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome and Scientific member of the Swiss Institute in Rome (Istituto Svizzero di Roma), Italy
2004
Internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice,
Italy
2000 2001
Academic year at the Università degli Studi Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy as part of the ERASMUS program
1993
Year abroad at Banksia Park High School, Adelaide, Australia
2021
"Best Teaching Award 2021" from the students of the Universi-ty of Liechtenstein
2011 2012
Scholarship for prospective researchers from the Swiss Na-tional Science Foundation (SNSF)
2009
"Theodor Fischer Prize"
International Young Researcher Award from the Central Insti-tute for Art History in Munich for outstanding research work on the history of architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries for the dissertation "Gaetano Koch (1849-1910). Building for the Third Rome"
2006 2007
Doctoral scholarship from the Max Planck Society at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, Italy

Scientific member of the Swiss Institute in Rome (Istituto Sviz-zero di Roma), Italy
2004 2006
Doctoral scholarship at the International ETH Research Group "Urban Forms. Conditions and Consequences" of the ETH Zurich, directed by Prof. Dr. Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani and Dr. Matthias Noell, Zurich, Switzerland

Various travel grants for Italy and the USA from the Erich
Degen Foundation of ETH Zurich, Switzerland
1999
DAAD scholarship for a Russian language course at the St. Petersburg State University, Russia
1993
Gifted students funding in Bavaria
since 2023
Member of the expert group "Built Heritage & Upcycling" of the Liechtenstein School of Architecture (LSA), University of Liechtenstein
since 2023
Member of the Swiss Network for Historicism
since 2017
Member of the Swiss Expert Group for Monument Preservation (AKD)

Member of the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA): Network woman + sia
since 2015
Member of the Association of Art Historians in Switzerland (VKKS)
since 2015
Member of the Renaissance Society of America
since 2015
Member of the German Society for the Study of the 19th Century
2008 2013
Member of the AAA - Assistants' Association of the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich: representative in the departmental conference and 2010-2011 Deputy head of the AAA
2008 2013
Member of the AAA - Assistants' Association of the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich: representative in the departmental conference and 2010-2011 Deputy head of the AAA