New Visiting Professor Thomas Stellmach for the Department of Urban Design and Urban Studies starting summer semester 2022

Thomas Stellmach is known as founder of TSPA Making Cities, an international urban planning and design firm that develops sustainable urban systems for a changing world, and as a planning expert for UN-Habitat.

Trained as an architect in Berlin and Barcelona, Thomas Stellmach has lived and worked in Rotterdam, Aleppo, Barcelona nd Nairobi. He has now settled in Berlin and teaches Urban Design and Urban Studies at the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning at BTU Cottbus since April.

His planning work includes the strategic framework plan for the Metropole Ruhr and the recently awarded development plan for Berlin-Brandenburg 2070, as well as the development plan for Makkah and Moscow's largest urban expansion.

He has previously taught at the Berlage in Rotterdam, NL, the University for Science & Arts in Aleppo, Syria, and Riseba in Riga, and lectured at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Strelka in Moscow, UPC in Barcelona and AUB in Beirut.

For the United Nations, he supports the Sustainable Urban Development Programme and coordinated pilot projects in the Philippines, Rwanda and Mozambique.

In 2020, Thomas was appointed by Berlin's Governing Mayor, Michael Müller, as a member of the strategy advisory board of the recently launched Smart City project.