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Kim Förster

@kimfoerster.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester/MARG; author of „Building Institution“ (2024), „Undisciplined Knowing“ (2023), and editor of „Environmental Histories of Architecture (2022); research interest in institutional and environmental history

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Matthias Schmelzer @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Concrete Destruction: Costs and Damages of the Concrete and Cement Industry and the Future of Construction Excited to share a study I co-authored, together with Tom Ackers, Conrad Kunze, Paulina Orozco, and Nils Urbanus, published by the @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rl...
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Kommende Woche Freitag habe ich das grosse Vergnügen in der Zürcher Buchhandlung Calligramme mit Hans-Georg von Arburg über dessen Buchneuerscheinung „Endlich Wohnen!“ und das Spiel in Architektur und Literatur zu diskutieren: www.calligramme.ch
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Dispatch @dispatchmedia.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Will a pipeline carve through Britain’s first national park? In the Peak District, a vast new carbon-capture scheme could soon cut across farms, villages and protected land. @hughesroland.bsky.social walked the route, and found a local revolt brewing. dispatch-media.com/will-a-pipel...
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Next week in Dessau! Discourse | Cracks | Narrative: bauhaus-dessau.de/en/events/di...
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Discourse | Cracks | Narrative - Programme - Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Looking forward to delivering the keynote address at the 14th METU Architectural History Graduate Symposium: Future & Architectural History, which will be held on December 18-19, 2025, at Kubbealtı, Faculty of Architecture METU in Ankara.
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Looking forward to be speaking about my cement research in the context of Montagabendgespräche 2025/26 on architecture and ecology at RWTH Aachen on Monday night! theorie.arch.rwth-aachen.de/archiv-monta...
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Happy to be part of the wonderful infrastructure history book "Desire and Denial" with the essay "The Elephant in the Room" on Hope Cement Works in the Peak District as a proto-case of environmental justice. Thanks Nathalie Bredella for the invitation and editing! www.distanz.de/en/desire-an...
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Desire and Denial: On Constructing and Contesting Infrastructures
Ambivalent Infrastructures
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We are opening „Ecologies of the Machine. Landscapes of Cement and Power“ tonight, this time as a pop-up installation at TU Munich‘s Pavillon 333, in collaboration with Anne Rademacher of the Public Science Lab: publicsciencelab.org/2025/10/10/e...
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Ecologies of the Machine: Landscapes of Cement and Power
Following the launch of the Public Science Lab, we are delighted to present the exhibition “Ecologies of the Machine: Landscapes of Cement and Power.” The exhibition delves into the multiple ecolog…
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Faculti @faculti.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
What if cement - the literal foundation of modern life - has been quietly shaping our climate crisis and social values for over a century? @kimfoerster.bsky.social , @manchester.ac.uk , Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) , discusses: faculti.net/lets-talk-ab... #architecture
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Faculti @faculti.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
What if cement - the literal foundation of modern life - has been quietly shaping our climate crisis and social values for over a century? @kimfoerster.bsky.social , @manchester.ac.uk , Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) , discusses: faculti.net/lets-talk-ab... #architecture
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Our exhibition "Ecologies of the Machine," curated by Tania Tovar of Proyector architecture space and with landscape photography by Erika Loana of Atlas Materia Prima, is still on view at Vi Per Gallery in Prague until 12 July, with public events planned on 3 & 4 July: www.e-flux.com/announcement...
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Ecologies of the Machine: Landscapes of Cement and Power - Announcements - e-flux
Ecologies of the Machine: Landscapes of Cement and Power at VI PER Gallery.ex
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
CfP: Together with Adam Przywara, for the 2026 EAHN conference in Aarhus, we formulated a call for papers for a panel on "Excavating the Landfill: Towards an Environmental History of Architecture’s Waste" which can be found here konferencer.au.dk/eahn26/call-...
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Call for Papers
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Very much looking forward to opening the exhibition Ecologies of the Machine, which delves into the ecologies, systems, and landscape transformations derived from the economic and technological machine that is the cement industry in Mexico. www.vipergallery.org/vystava/ecol...
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Ecologies of the Machine: Landscapes of Cement and Power
Cement je dnes nejpoužívanějším stavebním materiálem na světě. Ony specifické síly živené kapitálem, které poháněly cementářský průmysl kupředu od jeho vzniku v 19. století až k vrcholnému vzepětí toh...
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
CFP for our panel on future impacts of extraction in the context of this year‘s AHRA conference now online: www.virtual-lsa.uk/ahra2025/?fb...
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AHRA 2025 – Conceptualising Environment(s): continuity and change
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Grateful to have contributed an essay on „The Palimpsest of Swiss Energy Landscapes“ to the inaugural issue of ISUP Journal! www.isuppapers.ch/articles/fro...
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From ‘White Coal’ to Energy Futures: The Palimpsest of Swiss Energy Landscapes - undefined
Web-based, open-access architectural publication produced by the Institute of Urban and Landscape Studies at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio (USI Università della Svizzera italiana).
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Alex Tiefenbacher @tiefenbacherin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
💨Die Kritik am Emissionshandelssystem ist in Bundesbern angekommen – und das gleich doppelt! (1/8) @magazindaslamm.bsky.social
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Looking forward to co-hosting soon the MARG symposium ‘Transitioning Architecture – Pedagogy, Research and Collaboration’ at Manchester with many great guests!
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The reviews of "Building Institution" get longer and longer... Thanks André Patrão for such kind and generous words! khorein.ifdt.bg.ac.rs/index.php/ch... @marg-manchester.bsky.social
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View of Kim Förster, Building Institution: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York 1967–1985, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2024. | Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and P...
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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
A few pics from inside this highly recommended book archidose.substack.com/p/architectu...
A photo from inside "Building Institution: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York 1967-1985" by Kim FörsterA photo from inside "Building Institution: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York 1967-1985" by Kim FörsterA photo from inside "Building Institution: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York 1967-1985" by Kim FörsterA photo from inside "Building Institution: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York 1967-1985" by Kim Förster
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
"Building Institution" is this week's architecture book of the week! Read here John Hill's favorable review on "A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books" @marg-manchester.bsky.social @archidose.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/archidos...
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Architecture Books – Week 3/2025
Gimme an I! Gimme an A! Gimme a U! Gimme an S! What's that spell?
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
What a rare review of Environmental Histories of Architecture in JSAH by Catherine Seavitt Nordenson! online.ucpress.edu/jsah/article...
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Review: Environmental Histories of Architecture
The Canadian Centre for Architecture is the host of Environmental Histories of Architecture, a multiyear research, writing, and publication project under the editorial direction of Kim Förster. This c...
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Fantastic research presented at the gta Doctoral Review at ETH Zurich today!
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Happening today in Sheffield!
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Wonderful review in JSAH by Marcelo López-Dinardi of our exhibition „Ecologies of the Machine. Landscapes of Cement and Power“, shown at Proyector in México in 2023-24, directed by Tania Tovar Torres with further contribution by Erika Loana of Atlas Materia Prima, online.ucpress.edu/jsah/issue/8...
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Volume 83 Issue 4 | Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians | University of California Press
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
For attentive readers… www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/171...
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Kim Förster Challenges the Accepted Mythology of the Insitute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New Book
The 584-page tome offers the first comprehensive outsider history of Peter Eisenman’s influential architectural think tank.
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Tomorrow, I’ll be joining the „Agentive Matter(s)“ symposium organized by Nathalie Bredella at the Institute for Advanced Study at TU Munich, speaking about the ecologies and economies of „Digital Concrete“!
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Manchester Architecture Research Group @marg-manchester.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
MARG lecture next week! Stay tuned for link to follow the lecture online ✨
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Manchester Architecture Research Group @marg-manchester.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Don’t miss our lecture fall 2024 series also online
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Happening tonight in Manchester!
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Next Tuesday I‘ll be discussing „Building Institution“ with Thomas de Monchaux, organized by the New York Review of Architecture and hosted by Head Hi bookstore in Brooklyn: www.instagram.com/p/DAUJHZAOa_...
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
Excited and honored to provide the keynote to next week’s conference at Princeton on the occasion of the North American distribution of my book „Building Institution“ through Columbia University Press: www.instagram.com/reel/DATv9Yy...
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
For all those working on institutional history of architecture, please consider applying to this panel of next year's AHA, which I co-organize with Joshua Mardell and Yanqi Huang: ahra-architecture.org/events/archi...
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Architecture’s Unsung Institutions (Session at AHA 2025) - Architectural Humanities Research Association
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
Recently I returned to NEST in Zurich and spoke with Peter Richner of Swiss Federal Institute for Material Science and Technology Empa about why and how our past and present cement regime based on a fossil industry complicates any future of building: open.spotify.com/episode/0Ikw...
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Von Luftschlössern zu Baustoffen aus der Luft – mit Kim Förster, Dozent für Architekturwissenschaften
Episode · Die Zukunft des Bauens · NEST wurde 2016 als Forschungs- und Innovationsplattform von Empa und Eawag eröffnet, mit dem Ziel, nachhaltige Innovationen im Bausektor zu fördern. Doch wie gut fu...
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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Our roundtable on #envhum is blowing up! Registrations from across the 🌏 What are questions/topics you'd like to hear discussed W/ these experienced editors in #envhum? Also would you listen to a recording of the conversations? I do have a nice Yeti microphone so tempted to give it a go...
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Out now, „Building Institution“! (At least as EB, print to follow.) Thanks to the fantastic Till Sperrle, Nicola Heine, Jan Gerbach, Achim Hatzius, Bri Ostermann, as well as Gero Wierichs and Johanna Tönsing at transcript: www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/c6...
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Huge thanks for featuring my cement research and teaching on Baunetz Campus: www.baunetz-campus.de/focus/vorbei...
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
Open PHD position in history and theory of architecture at USI Mendrisio: www.instagram.com/p/C1WVBWlMRj...
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
There is a 4 year funded doctoral position at USI Mendrisio opening up: content.usi.ch/sites/defaul...
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Coming soon! My long overdue monograph on the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies is announced as of today (still a dummy cover though): www.transcript-verlag.de/detail/index...
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Happy to have my architectural critique of the NEST out with e-flux Architecture‘s Accumulations-series today, finally: www.e-flux.com/architecture...
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
What an honor! The Environmental Histories-series got reviewed already some time ago: arkitektur.se/recension/sv...
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Thrilled to have been contributed my kiln research to this fantastic collection: punctumbooks.com/titles/solar...
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
With the publication of my survey and position paper „Undisciplined Knowing“ the open access series „Environmental Histories of Architecture“ eventually comes to an end! Thanks to everyone who collaborated on this multi-year project! www.librarystack.org/environmenta...
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
The anthology on Histories of Architecture Education in the United States is finally out! I’m happy to have contributed an essay on the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies as a postmodern school of architecture: www.routledge.com/Histories-of...
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Excited to take part in the Encounters panel of the Repositioning Urban Design symposium at TU Delft tomorrow, together with Pelin Tan and Salomon Frausto! urbandesigntudelft.nl/news/symposi...
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Kim Förster @kimfoerster.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
There are three funded PhD positions for artistic research on climate rights with my friend Nabil Ahmed at Trondheim University! jobbnorge.no//en/availabl...
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