Faculty

New Faculty

Jorg Sieweke

German urban designer and landscape architect Jorg Sieweke will begin teaching sustainable urban design in the Landscape Architecture Program in spring 2009. Having taught design studios and undertaken research at Technical University Dresden and Kunsthochschule Berlin, Sieweke comes to the School of Architecture from Technical University Berlin where he served as a research and teaching associate in the Dept. of Architecture, Environment and Society. For the past decade Sieweke has designed landscape at several firms in Germany including Topotek 1, Stefan Tischer, and his own firm, _scapes Jorg Sieweke, founded in 2001. He earned a diploma in landscape architecture from University Essen, and a master’s degree in urban design from Kunsthochschule Berlin. Sieweke is the recipient of numerous awards, as well as the author and subject of magazine articles. Recent projects/proposals include: “Neu-Altona” (Hamburg, Germany), a re–reading of postwar urban design settlement of Ernst May; “Rhinepark” (Duisburg, Germany), the integration of design and sanitation measures of steel–work site; “2G Venice Lagoon” (Venice, Italy), re–discovering the lagoon as natural regional setting; and the Berlin Wall Memorial.