Silke Langenberg (born 1974) is a

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heritage scientist and

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. She is a

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of construction heritage and preservation in the department of architecture at

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Education and career

Langenberg studied architecture at the

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and at the IUAV. She worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Preservation and Building Research, University of Dortmund, where she was awarded a

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with a thesis in engineering sciences. From 2006 to 2014, she was a researcher at ETH Zurich. Between 2011 and 2013, she visited the Singapore-ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability multiple times as researcher in residence. In 2014, she took over the professorship for Building in Existing Contexts, Preservation and Building Research at the

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. The 1st August 2020 she returned to ETH Zurich to assume the second full professorship at the Institute for Preservation and Construction History at ETH Zurich. In the discussion on the recognition and preservation of the architecture of the 1960s and 1970s, Silke Langenberg emphasised early on the necessity of taking engineering aspects into account. In connection with her research on system buildings, she addressed in particular the intrinsic conflict between the underlying concept of a building and the material preservation of its original substance. Her research includes attempts to rationalize building processes as well as questions of the development, repair, recognition and long-term preservation of serially, industrially and digitally produced constructions. She was a member of the initiative committee for the establishment of the German Research Programme "Construction as Cultural Heritage". As a response to questions discussed within this framework, she named her professorship "Construction Heritage and Preservation" and thus founded a distinct field of research and concept at ETH Zurich, which engages with the recognition and dissemination of innovations in the building process, construction methods and technology. As a result, her professorship is affiliated with both the Institute for Preservation and Construction History and the Institute for Technology in Architecture at ETH Zurich.ETH Zürich, Institut für Technologie in der Architektur (ITA)
''Neue Professorin am ITA.''
May 28 2020. Silke Langenberg is a member of the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA Zurich Section) as well as numerous scientific professional associations.

References

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