Nathalie Bredella

Short CV

Prof. Dr. Nathalie Bredella focuses on the history and theory of architecture at the nexus of media and technology studies. She studied architecture at the TU Berlin and Cooper Union New York. She finalized her doctoral dissertation in architectural theory at the Leibniz University Hannover and habilitated at the ETH Zürich. She was a research fellow at the IKKM (Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie) of the Bauhaus-University Weimar and at MECS Institute for Advanced Study on Media Cultures of Computer Simulation, Leuphana University Lüneburg. As a visiting professor at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) she taught architectural history with a focus on media and gender studies. She has also been a visiting professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Technical University of Munich, and a guest lecturer at the ETH Zurich. Nathalie is currently the Chair of Architectural Theory at Leibniz Universität Hannover.

Selected Awards

• Research Fellow at the MECS Institute for Advanced Study on Media Cultures of Computer Simulation, Leuphana University Lüneburg
• Research fellow at the IKKM (Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie) of the Bauhaus-University Weimar

Research Interests

Her research interests lie in the history and theory of architecture. She is interested in architectural history at the interface with the history of media and technology. The mediality of architecture and the history of the digital are focal points of her research, as are gender studies and urban studies.

Selected Publications

Monographies: 

• The Architectural Imagination at the Digital Turn, Routledge, London, 2022
• Architekturen des Zuschauens, transcript, Bielefeld, 2009

Editions:

• Utopia Computer: The „New“ in Architecture?, Berlin: TU Verlag, 2023 (hg. mit Chris Dähne, Frederike Lausch)
• The Agency of Digital Tools, special issue, Architecture Research Quarterly, Vol. 21, no. 1, Cambridge University Press 2017 (gastkuratiert mit Carolin Höfler)
• Infrastrukturen des Urbanen. Soundscapes, Landscapes, Netscapes, Bielefeld: transcript 2013 (hg. mit Chris Dähne)

Essays:

• Simulation and Architecture: Mapping Building Information Modeling, NTM-Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, Dezember 2019, Vol. 27, no. 4, Birkhäuser, 419-441.
• Modell, in: Werkzeuge des Entwerfens, Barbara Wittmann (hg.), Zürich, Berlin: diaphanes 2018, 103-117.
• The Evolution of Architectural Computing: From Building Modeling to Design Computation, Interview: Nathalie Bredella talks to Robert Aish, a major figure in the development of new computational technologies in architecture since the 1970s, Architecture Research Quarterly, Vol. 21, no. 1, Cambridge University Press 2017, 65-73.