Erik Wegerhoff
former senior lecturer
Curriculum vitae
Erik Wegerhoff (b.1974) is Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Architecture. Apart from the car as the strangely mobile counterpart to immobile architecture, which is the focus of his "second book", just published, he has an interest in the poetic dimensions of infrastructural buildings – the topic of his current research project as a fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome. Roads and paths, literary travels from the Grand Tour until today, appropriation and reuse, and contemporary architectural criticism are further fields of expertise and interest. Erik worked as a journalist for the Schweizerische Bauzeitung – TEC21. Currently, he is restoring a 300-year-old stone house in Italy together with the architect Laura Wollenhaupt, following criteria of sustainability.
Erik studied architecture at the Technische Universität Berlin with a year abroad at the Architectural Association in London. He served as a fixed-term lecturer at Habitat Unit, TU Berlin, followed by a three-months Grand Tour along the 18th-century route from Munich to Sicily by Vespa. Doctoral degree at ETH Zurich, supervised by Andreas Tönnesmann, on the reinterpretations und reuses of the Colosseum after antiquity, supported by grants of the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, and the Gerda Henkel Foundation. 2010–2017, fixed-term lecturer at the Chair of Theory and History of Architecture, Art and Design (Dietrich Erben) at Technische Universität Munich. 2012–2013, postdoctoral fellow of the Centre allemand d’histore de l’art in Paris, where he began his research project on the automobile in the architectural discourse of the 20th century, in summer 2019 supported by a fellowship of the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. 2017-2021, Erik was senior assistant at the Chair of the History and Theory of Architecture (Maarten Delbeke) at ETH Zürich.
Erik has published several books with the renowned German publisher Wagenbach. “Architecture and the automobile: a creative conflict“ (“Automobil und Architektur. Ein kreativer Konflikt”) has just been published, and “The Colosseum: admired, inhabited, and battered“ (“Das Kolosseum: bewundert, bewohnt, ramponiert”) was awarded second place on the list of best non-fiction books of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” and Norddeutscher Rundfunk in April 2012. Articles in international journals, and book chapters. Numerous architecture crits, mostly in the German “Baumeister” and the Swiss «Schweizerischen Bauzeitung – TEC21». Recent publications comprise an article on parallels between the Strada Novissima on the Venice Architecture Biennale of 1980 and the traffic calming zone which was introduced in Germany in the very same year in the journal Cloud-Cuckoo-Land / Wolkenkuckucksheim 41 (2021), an article on reused and remodelled car parks published in «Schweizerischen Bauzeitung – TEC21», and a review of the exhibition of the 1970s architecture collective "Missing Link" at the MAK in Vienna for Drawing Matter.
Video of Erik's inaugural lecture as senior lecturer (Privatdozent) at ETH Zürich "Architecture and the Automobile: Speeding Up, Shifting, Slowing Down" held on 5 October 2021 in the underground parking garage of ETH Hönggerberg.
Erik studied architecture at the Technische Universität Berlin with a year abroad at the Architectural Association in London. He served as a fixed-term lecturer at Habitat Unit, TU Berlin, followed by a three-months Grand Tour along the 18th-century route from Munich to Sicily by Vespa. Doctoral degree at ETH Zurich, supervised by Andreas Tönnesmann, on the reinterpretations und reuses of the Colosseum after antiquity, supported by grants of the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, and the Gerda Henkel Foundation. 2010–2017, fixed-term lecturer at the Chair of Theory and History of Architecture, Art and Design (Dietrich Erben) at Technische Universität Munich. 2012–2013, postdoctoral fellow of the Centre allemand d’histore de l’art in Paris, where he began his research project on the automobile in the architectural discourse of the 20th century, in summer 2019 supported by a fellowship of the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. 2017-2021, Erik was senior assistant at the Chair of the History and Theory of Architecture (Maarten Delbeke) at ETH Zürich.
Erik has published several books with the renowned German publisher Wagenbach. “Architecture and the automobile: a creative conflict“ (“Automobil und Architektur. Ein kreativer Konflikt”) has just been published, and “The Colosseum: admired, inhabited, and battered“ (“Das Kolosseum: bewundert, bewohnt, ramponiert”) was awarded second place on the list of best non-fiction books of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” and Norddeutscher Rundfunk in April 2012. Articles in international journals, and book chapters. Numerous architecture crits, mostly in the German “Baumeister” and the Swiss «Schweizerischen Bauzeitung – TEC21». Recent publications comprise an article on parallels between the Strada Novissima on the Venice Architecture Biennale of 1980 and the traffic calming zone which was introduced in Germany in the very same year in the journal Cloud-Cuckoo-Land / Wolkenkuckucksheim 41 (2021), an article on reused and remodelled car parks published in «Schweizerischen Bauzeitung – TEC21», and a review of the exhibition of the 1970s architecture collective "Missing Link" at the MAK in Vienna for Drawing Matter.
Video of Erik's inaugural lecture as senior lecturer (Privatdozent) at ETH Zürich "Architecture and the Automobile: Speeding Up, Shifting, Slowing Down" held on 5 October 2021 in the underground parking garage of ETH Hönggerberg.
