Peter Mörtenböck

PETER MÖRTENBÖCK is Professor of VISUAL CULTURE at the TU Wien, Co-Director of the CENTRE FOR GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE and Senior Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

His current research is focused on the architecture of the political community and the economisation of the city, as well as the global use of raw materials, urban infrastructures and new data publics.

Together with HELGE MOOSHAMMER, he curated the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, which explored the theme of “platform urbanism”.

PETER MÖRTENBÖCK’s appointment at the TU Wien was preceded by two other offers of a professorship in Vienna – Professor of Architectural Design (Geography, Landscapes, Cities) at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2018) and Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2019). Following his professorial habilitation in the field of cultural history at the TU Graz he was immediately offered the position of Professor of Media Aesthetics at the University of Paderborn, a position he held in 2002. Prior to this he was a guest professor of fine art at the University of Art and Design Linz from 2000 to 2001, and from 1998 to 2000 he conducted research at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and returned there as a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow from 2005 to 2007.

His latest publications co-authored with HELGE MOOSAHMMER include

▶ 2015 “Informal Market Worlds: The Architecture of Economic Pressure”, (with TEDDY CRUZ and FONNA FORMAN), nai010 publishers
▶ 2016 “Andere Märkte: Zur Architektur der informellen Ökonomie”, transcript
▶ 2016 “Visual Cultures as Opportunity”, Sternberg/MIT Press
▶ 2020 “Data Publics: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy”, Routledge
▶ 2021 “Platform Urbanism and Its Discontents”, nai010 publishers
▶ 2023 “In/formal Marketplaces: Experiments with Urban Reconfiguration”, nai010 publishers