Kim Förster
@kimfoerster.bsky.social
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
author of „Building Institution“ (2024), „Undisciplined Knowing“ (2023), and editor of „Environmental Histories of Architecture (2022);
research interest in institutional and environmental history
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...
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…
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October 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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...
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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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August 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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
#architecture
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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
#architecture
August 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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
#architecture
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...
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
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June 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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...
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-...
Call for Papers
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May 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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-...
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...
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...
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May 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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...
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...
AHRA 2025 – Conceptualising Environment(s): continuity and change
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April 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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...
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...
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).
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April 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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...
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💨Die Kritik am Emissionshandelssystem ist in Bundesbern angekommen – und das gleich doppelt! (1/8)
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March 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
💨Die Kritik am Emissionshandelssystem ist in Bundesbern angekommen – und das gleich doppelt! (1/8)
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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!
February 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Looking forward to co-hosting soon the MARG symposium ‘Transitioning Architecture – Pedagogy, Research and Collaboration’ at Manchester with many great guests!
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
View of Kim Förster, Building Institution: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York 1967–1985, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2024.
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February 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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
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A few pics from inside this highly recommended book
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January 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A few pics from inside this highly recommended book
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"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...
Architecture Books – Week 3/2025
Gimme an I! Gimme an A! Gimme a U! Gimme an S! What's that spell?
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January 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"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...
What a rare review of Environmental Histories of Architecture in JSAH by Catherine Seavitt Nordenson! online.ucpress.edu/jsah/article...
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...
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January 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
What a rare review of Environmental Histories of Architecture in JSAH by Catherine Seavitt Nordenson! online.ucpress.edu/jsah/article...
Fantastic research presented at the gta Doctoral Review at ETH Zurich today!
December 19, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Fantastic research presented at the gta Doctoral Review at ETH Zurich today!
Happening today in Sheffield!
December 6, 2024 at 8:18 AM
Happening today in Sheffield!
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...
Volume 83 Issue 4 | Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians | University of California Press
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December 5, 2024 at 8:31 AM
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...
For attentive readers… www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/171...
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.
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November 30, 2024 at 11:11 PM
For attentive readers… www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/171...
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“!
November 21, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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“!
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MARG lecture next week! Stay tuned for link to follow the lecture online ✨
November 16, 2024 at 10:10 AM
MARG lecture next week! Stay tuned for link to follow the lecture online ✨
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Don’t miss our lecture fall 2024 series also online
November 12, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Don’t miss our lecture fall 2024 series also online
Happening tonight in Manchester!
November 11, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Happening tonight in Manchester!
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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September 25, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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_...
Excited and honored to provide the keynote to next week’s conference at Princeton on the occasion of the North American distribution of my book „Building Institution“ through Columbia University Press: www.instagram.com/reel/DATv9Yy...
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September 24, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Excited and honored to provide the keynote to next week’s conference at Princeton on the occasion of the North American distribution of my book „Building Institution“ through Columbia University Press: www.instagram.com/reel/DATv9Yy...
For all those working on institutional history of architecture, please consider applying to this panel of next year's AHA, which I co-organize with Joshua Mardell and Yanqi Huang: ahra-architecture.org/events/archi...
Architecture’s Unsung Institutions (Session at AHA 2025) - Architectural Humanities Research Association
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September 16, 2024 at 2:36 PM
For all those working on institutional history of architecture, please consider applying to this panel of next year's AHA, which I co-organize with Joshua Mardell and Yanqi Huang: ahra-architecture.org/events/archi...