Kurt Forster
Kurt W. Forster was Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Architecture, and was a member of the DMJournal Committee from the journal’s inception until 2024. He held professorships at Stanford; M.I.T.; Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Zurich; and the Bauhaus University Weimar. He also headed the Swiss Institute in Rome, the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, was founding director of the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles) and a counsellor to the Senate of Berlin after unification. He organized major architecture exhibitions, directed the 9th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale (2004), wrote studies on Renaissance architecture and on contemporary photography (Ruff, Chiaramonte, Lambri). He edited the English translation of Aby Warburg’s Writings and published a book on Aby Warburgs Kulturwissenschaft. Ein Blick in die Abgründe der Bilder (Berlin: Matthes und Seitz, 2018).
Forster was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Accademico di San Luca, a recipient of the Meret Oppenheim Prize (Switzerland), the architecture prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of the Schinkel Prize in 2021 for Friedrich Schinkel. A Meander through his Life and Work (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2018).