Teaching and Research Associates
Jonathan Metzner, M.Sc.
Studied architecture at TU Dresden, TU Berlin and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. Since 2021, has worked in various planning offices (architecture and urban development). From February 2022 to July 2023, PhD candidate at the DFG Research Training Group »Cultural and Technological Significance of Historic Buildings«. Currently pursuing a PhD on concepts of Heimat and identity in postmodern architecture in the context of the IBA 1984/1987 at the BTU. Since winter semester 2023, teaching and research associate in the Department of Architectural Theory at the BTU.
Lehrgebäude 2B, Raum 0.01
Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 4
03046 Cottbus
+49 (0) 355 69 2007
jonathan.metzner(at)b-tu.de
Selected publications
Claus, Sylvia; Metzner, Jonathan: Platte postmodern. Das Kolonnadenviertel Leipzig 2024
Leander Berger, M.A.
Studied philosophy at the Leipzig University, the University of Vienna and the University of Basel. Main areas of research: history of sensuality, space and perception, philosophical aesthetics, social philosophy. Teaching and research associate in the Department of Architectural Theory at the BTU since summer semester 2026.
CV | Publications
Lehrgebäude 2B, Raum 0.01
Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 4
03046 Cottbus
+49 (0) 355 69 2006
leander.berger(at)b-tu.de
Projectassociate
From Rural Architecture to Cooperative Housing:
Franz Riepl’s Strategies for an »Alternative Modernity« for the Presence
Johann Gallis, M.A.
Studied art history at the University of Vienna. Currently a PhD candidate at TU Wien, working on a PhD entitled »Building in the Countryside. The Life and Work of the Architects Julius Kappel and Rudolf Hutter«. Main areas of research: 20th- and 21st-century architecture, with a focus on the post-1945 period; architecture in Burgenland; heritage conservation; and working with existing buildings (Weiterbauen). 2023–2026: Project associate at the TU Wien (Prof. Heike Oevermann) on the DFG research project »Living in a listed building«, as well as university teaching. Freelance work for the Austrian Society for Architecture, the Architekturzentrum Wien and the Federal Monuments Authority Austria.