Hannah Strothmann is an architect, urban historian, researcher and writer. She is a doctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre Intervening Arts / Berlin University of the Arts, where she is also a guest lecturer. Hannah's doctoral research examines notions of designing as planned action from the 1950s to the 1980s, focusing on the work of Horst Rittel. Her broader research interests include the social implications of architecture, ideas of designing (for different futures), contested urban spaces, and water environments. Her academic work has been funded by the Fulbright Scholarship Programme, the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, and various research grants.

Hannah also works as an independent writer and architectural journalist. Her journalistic work has been published by Baunetz, Bauwelt and CARTHA, among others. Previously, she has been a curatorial researcher at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, a museum and research center in Montréal that operates on the premise that architecture is a public concern. There, she was the content producer for a documentary trilogy that examined the ways in which changing societies and economic pressures affect the homes of various communities. The series was screened at international film festivals and the UN Commission for Social Development. Hannah was also part of the CCA's curatorial team for the exhibition A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention.

Winter term 2024/25

Zukünfte entwerfen: Theoretische, literarische und architektonische Annäherungen (UdK Berlin / FU Berlin)

Summer term 2024

Minimale Interventionen (UdK Berlin)

Books

Eva-Maria Ciesla, Susanne Hauser, Hannah Strothmann, Julia Weber (Eds): "Architecture as Intervention", Dimensions. Journal for Architectural Knowledge, transcript Verlag 2025 (vol.4 no.7).

Articles

“Zukünfte entwerfen: Tendenzen in der Architektur und Zukunftsforschung der 1960er Jahre“, in: Noji/Schröder (Eds): Zukunft unter Vorbehalt: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf gesellschaftliche Szenarien und Prognosen, transcript Verlag 2026 (in print)

“Between Subversion and Adaptation: Women in Rowing as Spatial Practitioners at the Turn of the Last Century“ in: Moser/Plakolm-Forsthuber/Stühlinger (Eds): OFF! De-Centering Feminist Architectural History, TU Wien Academic Press 2026 (in print)

“Entwerfen/Verwerfen: Architektonische Interventionen”, with Eva-Maria Ciesla, Susanne Hauser und Julia Weber, in: Brokoff/Gludovatz/Warstat (Eds): Intervenierende Künste: Begriffe – Verfahren – Prozesse, diaphanes 2026: 117-140.

“Future-Oriented Spatial Planning: Reflecting on Horst Rittel's Work”, in: Dimensions. Journal for Architectural Knowledge 2025/7: 99-113.

“Architecture as Intervention: Introduction”, in: Dimensions. Journal for Architectural Knowledge, transcript Verlag 2025 (vol.4, no.7): 11-17.

“Protest/Architektur: (Minimale) Interventionen im Ausstellungsraum”, in: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 2024 37(3): 442-450.

“Vom grünen Strand der Spree: Wie das Rudern die städtische Landschaft und die Gesellschaft Berlins um 1900 veränderte”, in: Vennen / Schaper (Hg): Berlin in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Jahrbuch des Landesarchivs Berlin, Gebr. Mann Verlag 2024, 27-51.

“Unter dem Radar? Rudernde Arbeiterinnen oder die vergessenen Wegbereiterinnen des Frauen-Rudersports in Berlin (1892-1914)”, in: Arbeit Bewegung Geschichte 2023/III: 75-97.

“Gendered Currents. Rowing Women on Venice Early Modern Waters”, in: Baldacci / Bassi / De Capitan / Omeodo (Eds): Venice and the Anthropocene: An Ecocritial Guide, wetlands 2022: 41-45.

“Unsettled – Reconsidering Homelessness through the Lens of Urban Movement”, in: Architectural Research in Finland (2021, vol. 5): 27-39.

Essays, Architecture and Exhibition Reviews (Selection)

“Zentrum für Kunst & Urbanistik in Berlin”, Bauwelt 1/2026

“Buchtipp: Programmed for Hope: Architectural Experimentation at the HfG Ulm Building Department”, Baunetz, 12. November 2025.

“Architektur und Alltagsfaschismus: Global Facisms im HKW”, Bauwelt 2025

“Die Abrissfrage”, Bauwelt 25/2025

“Nonsolution: Zur Politik der aktiven Nichtlösung im Planen und Bauen”, Bauwelt 6/2025

“Phyllis Lambert – Fotographische Notizen”, Baunetzwoche #638 (2024)

“Tourist go home?”, Bauwelt 14/2024

“250 Meter Durchmesser”, Bauwelt 4/2024

“Plansche Singerstraße in Berlin-Mitte”, Baunetzwissen 2024

“Insektarium in Montréal”, Bauwelt 26/2023

“Sorge tragen – Architekturen für das Alter(n)”, Baunetzwoche #623 (2023)

“Ausbauhaus am Südkreuz”, Bauwelt 17/2023

“CRCLR-Genossenschaftsbau in Berlin”, Bauwelt 23/2023

Presentations, Workshops, Lectures (Selection)

“Wassersport ist weiblich!”, Wassersportmuseum Berlin, Discussion, Berlin 2025

“Zukünfte entwerfen – Tendenzen in der Architektur und Zukunftsforschung der 1960er-Jahre”, Conference Presentation, Frankfurt 2024

“Constellating Constellations”, Goethe Institut, Lissabon, Presentation and Roundtable, Lissabon 2024

“Entwerfen / Verwerfen”, FU Berlin, Lecture Series Intervenierende Künste, Berlin 2024

“Von der Stärkekiste zum Bootshaus”, TU Wien, Lecture, Wien 2024

“Horst Rittel‘s Intervention in Design (Theory)”, FU Berlin, Workshop Presentation, Berlin 2023

“Vor dem Entwurf”, SFB Intervenierende Künste, Workshop 2023

“Curating Architecture”, Münster School of Architecture, Seminar Lecture 2022