email langenberg@arch.ethz.ch
Preservation, Recent Construction History, Rationalisation in Construction, System Buildings, Repair
Silke Langenberg is Full Professor of Construction Heritage and Preservation at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich. Her professorship is affiliated with both the Institute for Preservation and Construction History (IDB) and the Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA). Previously, she was a full professor of Construction in Existing Contexts, Conservation, and Building Research at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich.
Langenberg studied architecture in Dortmund and Venice. Since her engineering dissertation on “Buildings of the Boom Years,” her research has focused on issues related to the development, repair, and long-term preservation of serially, industrially, and digitally produced structures.
At ETH Zurich, she and her team address theoretical and practical challenges of inventorying, appreciating, and preserving monuments as well as recent (including very recent) buildings. With the orientation and naming of the field she represents at ETH, “Construction Heritage and Preservation”, she coined her own research area and concept, which deals with the appreciation and communication of procedural, technical, and constructive innovations in the built environment.