Dr Christoph Lueder
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Architecture and Landscape
- School of Arts
Associate Professor Architecture and Urbanism
- Email:
- c.lueder@kingston.ac.uk
About
I joined Kingston University in 2007; from 2016-18 I was School Director of Research at the School of Art and Architecture and since 2016 I am Faculty Research Ethics Lead.
Previously, I researched and taught at ETH Zürich, the University of Stuttgart and Canterbury School of Architecture.
After graduating from the University of Stuttgart in 1993, I practised architecture and urban design with Behnisch & Partners and Auer + Weber, Stuttgart before setting up my practice in Zürich. Buildings that I have been responsible for as project leader include the new University Library Magdeburg (completed 2003, won in competition 1998), social housing in Ingolstadt, Germany (1998), and an urban design and housing project for Anting New Town in Shanghai, China (2005).
I have lectured widely in the UK and internationally, including at the Deutsche Architektur Museum Frankfurt, ICA London, ETH Zurich, METU Ankara, Turkey, German Jordanian University Amman, Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies Mumbai, CEPT University Ahmedabad, Tashkeel Gallery Dubai, UAE, Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand, and Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago.
I have been an external examiner at the School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Plymouth from 2014 to 2017. I review book proposals for Routledge and Fairchild Books and am peer reviewer for academic journals such as ARQ, UDI, Architectural Design, The Journal of Architecture and Urban Studies Journal. As of 2023, I am a member of the AHRC Peer Review College.
I hold research funding awards from the Global Challenges Research Fund (2018 and 2020) from the RIBA Research Fund (2021 to 2023) and the Graham Foundation New York, USA (2023 to 2025) supporting the research project "How to Build with Time? Learning from Bimanagar, Ahmedabad". Previous research funding includes an award from the British Council (2021) for the project "About Making".
Qualifications
- Dipl.-Ing. Architecture and Urban Design, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 1993
- Doctor of Philosophy, Kingston University London, 2017
Domains
My research engages the pervasive roles of diagrams as analytical, generative, narrative and critical devices manifest in design practices that draw on thick cultural milieus and that operate at corporeal, architectural and urban scales.
Building on this theoretical strand of my research, I have been investigating representation more widely in urban planning, participatory urbanism, co-production of space by architects and inhabitants, and irregular urbanism.
In collaboration with communities and international academic partners, I have undertaken field research on Schlieren, Switzerland (supported by a research funding award from the ETH Zürich), Jabal Al Natheef, Amman, Jordan (supported by research funding from the Heinrich Böll Foundation), Ban Krua, Bangkok, Thailand, Cerro de la Cruz, Valparaiso, Chile (supported by a Santander Research Mobility Grant).
I am currently researching collaboratively on the co-production of space by the architect BV Doshi and inhabitants of Bimanagar, Ahmedabad, India; an edited book disseminating this research is forthcoming in 2025. The project is supported by grants from the Global Challenges Research Fund, the RIBA Research Fund and the Graham Foundation New York.
I have served internationally as external examiner of PhD theses. At Kingston I serve as Postgraduate Research Coordinator at the Department of Architecture and Landscape.
PhD supervision
I supervise doctoral research on representation in urban planning, participatory urbanism, co-production of space by architects and inhabitants over time, co-housing, informalisation and appropriation, irregular urbanism, cross-cultural perspectives and experiences of urbanisation. I welcome proposals from ambitious students in those areas.
Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Department of Architecture and Landscape
Publications
Mapping Jabal Al Natheef
(2014). Amman, Jordan: (Heinrich Boll Foundation)
Extensive intensive
(2008). Canterbury, U.K.: (UCA Canterbury School of Architecture)
project : perform
Lueder, Christoph (2008). Kingston upon Thames, U.K.: (Kingston University London)
Book Review of 'Unsettled urban space : routines, temporalities and contestations' edited by Tihomir Viderman, Sabine Knierbein, Elina Kränzle, Sybille Frank, Nikolai Roskamm and Ed Wall
Lueder, Christoph, 2023, Urban Studies
Corbusian space and urban corpus : the Unité d’habitation in Marseille and the Bastide town of Monpazier
Lueder, Christoph, 2021, The Journal of Architecture (26), pp 1031-1053
Urban villages and informal settlements as protagonists of urban futures
Lueder, Christoph, 2018, URBAN DESIGN International (23), 1, pp 4-21
Evaluator, choreographer, ideologue, catalyst : the disparate reception histories of Alexander Klein's graphical method
Lueder, Christoph, 2017, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (76), 1, pp 82-106
Proximity : the unfolding of a Koolhaasian hypothesis in book space and architectural space
Lueder, Christoph, 2015, Journal of Architectural Education (69), 2, pp 187-196
Poche. The Innominate Evolution of a Koolhaasian Technique
Lueder, Christoph, 2015, OASE: Journal for Architecture, 94
Los mapas como abstraccion y espacio imaginativo : representando el urbanismo informal = Maps as abstraction and imaginative space : representing informal urbanism
Lueder, Christoph, 2014, Revista Materia Arquitectura (6), 10, pp 46-55
Social fabric and spatial permuation - Ban Krua, Bangkok
Lueder, Christoph, 2014, Landscape Architecture Frontiers (2), 3, pp 148-155
Upside down or sideways up : corporeality, architecture and urbanism in translations between ground and image plane
Lueder, Christoph, 2014, Journal Of Architecture (19), 6, pp 923-948
Diagram utopias: rota and network as instrument and mirror of Utopia and Agronica
Lueder, Christoph, 2013, Journal of Architectural Education (67), 2, pp 224-233
Thinking between diagram and image: the ergonomics of abstraction and imitation
Lueder, Christoph, 2011, arq: Architectural Research Quarterly (15), 1, pp 57-67
The iconic and the charged field
Lueder, Christoph and Wall, Ed, 2011, (1), 3, pp 85-102
Quadject
Mckenzie, Jordan and Lueder, Christoph, 2008, KIOSK, 2, pp 84-91
Exchange House
Lueder, Christoph, 1993, D.B.Z. (Deutsche Bauzeitschrift) (41), 7, pp 1189-1194
No speculative architecture = Keine spekulative Architektur
Lueder, Christoph, 1992, D.B.Z. (Deutsche Bauzeitschrift), pp 62-67
Zen oder die Kunst der Inszenierung mit Glas, Raum und Licht = Zen or the art of setting the scene with glass, space and light
Lueder, Christoph, 1992, D.B.Z. (Deutsche Bauzeitschrift), pp 52-57
Natural History Museum : Brucken und Schluchten
Lueder, Christoph, 1992, D.B.Z. (Deutsche Bauzeitschrift), 10, pp 1427-1434
Sackler Galleries
Lueder, Christoph, 1992, D.B.Z. (Deutsche Bauzeitschrift) (40), 10, pp 1421-1434
Embankment Place
Lueder, Christoph, 1992, D.B.Z. (Deutsche Bauzeitschrift) (40), 8, pp 1139-1147
Hôtel Industríel Berlier in Paris
Lueder, Christoph, 1992, D.B.Z. (Deutsche Bauzeitschrift) (40), 4, pp 489-494
Reina Sophia Museum of Modern Art
Lueder, Christoph, 1992, D.B.Z. (Deutsche Bauzeitschrift) (40), 10, pp 1435-1440
Oblique Drawing and Empathetic Immersion
Lueder, Christoph (2024). In: Colonnese, Fabio, (eds.), Grancho, Nuno, (eds.) and Schaeverbeke, Robin, (eds.), Approaches to Drawing in Architectural and Urban Design. Newcastle, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp 372-392
Marginalised development and ad-hoc tactics for growth
Martín Lopez, Lucía, Lueder, Christoph and Cano Pineiro, Almudena (2020). In: Cupples, Julie, (eds.) and Slater, Tom, (eds.), Producing and contesting urban marginality : interdisciplinary and comparative dialogues. London, U.K.:, pp 161-188
Book-worlds and ordering systems as sites of invention
Lueder, Christoph (2019). In: Psarra, Sophia, (ed.), The production sites of architecture. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, pp 89-109
Saul Steinberg's 'Graph Paper Architecture' : humourous drawings and diagrams as instruments of critique
Lueder, Christoph (2018). In: Rosso, Michela, (ed.), Laughing at architecture : architectural histories of humour, satire and wit. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury, pp 209-228
Situationists
Lueder, Christoph (2018). In: Arrigo, Bruce A., (ed.), The Sage Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security and Privacy. London, U.K.: Sage, pp 914-917
London Underground Diagram (1931) by Harry Beck
Lueder, Christoph (2014). In: Lees-Maffei, Grace, (ed.), Iconic Designs: 50 stories about 50 things. London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, pp 34-37
Diagram ecologies − diagrams as science and game board
Lueder, Christoph (2012). In: Cox, Philip, (eds.), Plimmer, Beryl, (eds.) and Rodgers, Peter, (eds.), Diagrammatic representation and inference: 7th international conference, Diagrams 2012 Canterbury, UK, July 2-6, 2012 Proceedings. London: Springer, pp 214-232
Dynamische instrumente fur die Peripherie: Schlieren/ZH
Lueder, C, Angelil, M, Martin, M and Schurk, H (2005). Zurich, Germany: (Institut fur Stadtebau)
Diagrams for writing and reading architectural and urban space
Lueder, Christoph(2015). In: Plague of Diagrams : Symposium, 22 Aug 2015 :London, U.K.
The London tube map as a shared public diagram
Lueder, Christoph(2013). In: Going Underground : Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013, 17 - 18 Jan 2013 :London, U.K.
re:view / re:make
Lueder, Christoph(2007). 17 - 18 Nov 2007 : Kingston upon Thames, U.K.
Diagrams as instruments for conceiving and negotiating space and cities
Lueder, Christoph (2018), PhD thesis, Kingston University
Gallery of work
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University Library Magdeburg, Germany
Christoph Lueder, project leader at Auer+Weber, Stuttgart
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Local Studio Dhal ni Pol, Ahmedabad, India
Exhibition, 2018
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Housing Estate Ingolstadt, Germany
Christoph Lueder, project leader at Behnisch und Partner, Stuttgart
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University Library Magdeburg, Germany
Christoph Lueder, project leader at Auer+Weber, Stuttgart
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How to Build with Time? Learning from Bimanagar, Ahmedabad, India
Research project since 2017 on Bimanagar Housing Estate by BV Doshi
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How to Build with Time? Learning from Bimanagar, Ahmedabad, India
Exhibition at London Design Biennale
