User:Urbanw4D/Hubert Klumpner

Hubert Klumpner (* 22. December 1965 in Salzburg) is an Austrian, architect, urbanist, planner, designer, educator, researcher, curator and activist.

Klumpner is a tenured professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich(ETH Zurich), where he directs since 2010 the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design. He is the general director of the Center for Architecture, Society and Environment, ETH CASE (Wohnforum). In the Institute of Science Technology and Policy (ISTP) he directs a research group that explores how science, technology and policy are changing the way how the profession is designing, developing and re-living urban transformation processes.

Klumpner was associate professor of architecture and planning at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University, New York from 2007 to 2010.

Klumpner is also the founder and design principal, of the international, Swiss based architecture and design studio, urbanthinktank_next (uttnext), established in 2019. with a partner office in Medellin (COL). As co-founder of Urban-Think Tank(U-TT), he is regarded as one of the originators of the “social turn”, a movement that had its breakthrough in 2010 in New York with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) exhibition "Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement” , curated by Andres Lepik, during Barry Bedroll’s time as the Philip Johnson, Chief Curator of Architecture and Design. As the curator for Architecture and Urban Design of the 2021 Vienna Biennale for Change under the directorship of Christop Thun-Hohenstein, the Forbes Magazine wrote: "The exhibition may therefore ultimately be most productive as a clearinghouse for evaluating which tools – practical and metaphorical – will be needed to change the planetary mindset."