Christiane Weber Editor & Author

Mark Escherich is an architect, buildings historian, and monuments conservator, as well as head of the Monuments Protection Authority of Erfurt. He teaches and conducts research on architecture and modernist urban planning, focusing particularly on the preservation and maintenance of buildings. Olaf Gisbertz is a university lecturer in construction history and monuments conservation. He also leads the Center for Building Research + Communication + Preservation of Historical Monuments (iTUBS mbH) at TU Braunschweig. Since 2017 he is professor of buildings history, construction research, and monuments preservation at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund. Sebastian Hoyer is an architect and a research assistant at the Institute of Preservation of Buildings and Structure at TU Braunschweig. His research and publications focus on the recording, assessment, and preservation of more recent architectural-historical structures at the interface between architecture and engineering. Andreas Putz is an architect, monuments conservator, and buildings historian. He completed his PhD at ETH Zurich and was responsible for the renovation of Erich Mendelsohn’s former Kaufhaus Schocken department store in Chemnitz for Auer+Weber (Stuttgart) and knererlang architekten (Dresden). He has been professor of recent building heritage conservation at TU Munich since 2018. Christiane Weber is a buildings historian, architect, and art historian. She teaches in the Architectural History and Monuments Conservation Department at the University of Innsbruck, where she has been professor of architectural history since 2022.