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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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Discourse | Cracks | Narrative - Programme - Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau

Next week in Dessau! Discourse | Cracks | Narrative: bauhaus-dessau.de/en/events/di...

24.01.2026 22:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

16.12.2025 19:28 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

12.12.2025 09:28 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Desire and Denial: On Constructing and Contesting Infrastructures Ambivalent Infrastructures

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...

10.12.2025 20:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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…

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...

15.10.2025 13:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

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14.08.2025 14:08 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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

14.08.2025 14:06 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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

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...

20.06.2025 12:51 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Call for Papers

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-...

19.05.2025 18:18 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

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...

13.05.2025 09:00 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AHRA 2025 – Conceptualising Environment(s): continuity and change

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...

04.04.2025 20:46 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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).

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...

01.04.2025 19:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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💨Die Kritik am Emissionshandelssystem ist in Bundesbern angekommen – und das gleich doppelt! (1/8)

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14.03.2025 15:01 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks, wait for the presentation titles!

22.02.2025 11:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Looking forward to co-hosting soon the MARG symposium ‘Transitioning Architecture – Pedagogy, Research and Collaboration’ at Manchester with many great guests!

22.02.2025 10:04 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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...

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

10.02.2025 18:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks Stephen!

13.01.2025 19:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A few pics from inside this highly recommended book
archidose.substack.com/p/architectu...

13.01.2025 17:32 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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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?

"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...

13.01.2025 16:37 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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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...

What a rare review of Environmental Histories of Architecture in JSAH by Catherine Seavitt Nordenson! online.ucpress.edu/jsah/article...

12.01.2025 19:43 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Fantastic research presented at the gta Doctoral Review at ETH Zurich today!

19.12.2024 21:35 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happening today in Sheffield!

06.12.2024 08:18 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Volume 83 Issue 4 | Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians | University of California Press

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...

05.12.2024 08:31 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

For attentive readers… www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/171...

30.11.2024 23:11 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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“!

21.11.2024 21:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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MARG lecture next week! Stay tuned for link to follow the lecture online ✨

16.11.2024 10:10 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Don’t miss our lecture fall 2024 series also online

12.11.2024 19:05 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

We are working on it, to be announced through the instagram of MARG (marg_manchester)!

11.11.2024 12:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happening tonight in Manchester!

11.11.2024 11:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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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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