Prof. Uta Graff

Academic Career and Research Areas

Prof. Graff works in a subject-related and interdisciplinary manner on conceptual and experimental design practice as well as the individual design process in architecture. Her research and teaching activities focus on the process of architectural design as a systematic and methodical approach to generating knowledge. She is the initiator, publisher and lead editor of the scientific publication series “Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge”.

Uta Graff studied architecture at the TU Braunschweig and ETH Zurich, worked with Peter Zumthor in Switzerland and at gmp Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner in Berlin, was a research assistant at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) under Prof. Grazioli and Prof. Krischanitz and a visiting professor at the CDK, China Academy of Art in Hangzhou and in the Sound Studies program at the UdK. From 2010-2012 she was a professor at the University of Würzburg. Since October 2012, Prof. Graff has held the Chair of Design at the Department of Architecture at the School of Engineering and Design.

Awards

• Detail Award for Students and Schools of Architecture (2024)
• Cologne Architecture Prize (2017)
• German Architecture Prize (2015)
• DAM Award for Architecture in Germany (2015)
• German Steel Construction Award, First Prize (2014)