Prof Elke Beyer

Elke Beyer is a full professor for architectur theory at the University professor at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau. She has been teaching at Habitat Unit from 2019 to 2023 and served as PI of the project from 2021 until 2023. Habitat Unit in the summer term of 2021. Elke studied History and East European studies at the University of Cologne and University College London. In 2017, she received her doctoral degree for the dissertation, “Producing Socialist Urbanity. City centre planning in the Soviet Union in the 1960s”, at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.

Elke Beyer’s research focuses on urban affairs in the socialist and post-socialist world, the histories of post-war modern architecture and urbanism, transnational practice and the transfer of knowledge and ideas. She was a researcher at the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zurich (2006-11), where she also taught on the master’s and bachelor’s courses in Architecture, at the Leibniz Institute for Society and Space, Erkner (2013-14), and at the project “Shrinking Cities”, Berlin (2002-06). She has a wide range of experiences from exhibitions and publishing in the field of urban research.