Silke Langenberg

Silke Langenberg (1974) is a German heritage scientist and architect. She is Full Professor of Construction Heritage and Preservation at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.
==Education and career==
Langenberg studied architecture at the University of Dortmund 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 doctoral degree with a thesis in engineering sciencesSilke Langenberg: Bauten der Boomjahre. Architektonische Konzepte und Planungstheorien der 60er und 70er Jahre. Universität Dortmund 2006. From 2006 to 2014, she was a researcher at ETH Zurich.Team Gramazio Kohler Research. Between 2011 and 2013, she visited the Singapore-ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability multiple times as researcher in residence.Singapore-ETH Centre Alumni. In 2014, she took over the professorship for Building in Existing Contexts, Preservation and Building Research at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich. Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften München: Silke Langenberg. 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.ETH board: New professors appointed. Media release. May 15 2020. 
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.Silke Langenberg. Bauten der Boomjahre. Architektonische Konzepte und Planungstheorien der 60er und 70er Jahre. Wulff, Dortmund 2006, ISBN 978-3-88090-115-5. 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. Lectures on this topic titled "The inbuilt conflict" TU Braunschweig (2016), TU Vienna (2017), Universita della Svizzera Italiana Mendrisio (2018) among others. Her research includes attempts to rationalize building processes as well as questions of the development, repairSilke Langenberg (Ed.): Repair. Encouragement to Think and Make. Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2018., recognition and long-term preservation of serially, industriallySilke Langenberg: Das Konzept ‘Ersatz’? Probleme bei der Reparatur industriell gefertigter Bauteile. In: Günter Bayerl, Georg Stöger (Hrsg.): Reparieren – oder die Lebensdauer der Gebrauchsgüter. H. 3, Berlin: edition sigma, 2012 (= Cottbusser Studien zur Geschichte von Technik, Arbeit und Umwelt 79), S. 255–272. and digitally produced constructions. Silke Langenberg: Die digitale Herausforderung. Alterung, Reparaturfähigkeit und theoretische Reproduzierbarkeit digital fabrizierter Architektur. In: archithese. Eine Schwäche für Materialität 3, 2013, S. 84–85. 
She was a member of the initiative committee for the establishment of the German Research Programme "Construction as Cultural Heritage".DGF: Priority Programme 2255: Construction as cultural heritage – Principles for engineering-based and interlinked conservation strategies for the built heritage of the high modern era. July 2nd 2019. As a response to questions discussed within this framework, she named her professorship "Construction Heritage and Preservation"Professorship for Construction Heritage and Preservation, ETH Zurich 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 HistoryInstitute of Preservation and Construction History, ETH Zurich 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.
Category:1974 births
Category:German scientists
Category:German architects
Category:German people