Architecture Speaks! Helga Blocksdorf

In the twelfth season of the Architecture Speaks! lecture series, organized jointly by Aalto University and the Architecture & Design Museum, Professor and Head of Department Jenni Reuter invites seven speakers to share insights into their design processes and their roles in the world of architecture. The theme of this season is Local Memory.

Helga Blocksdorf

After graduating from the University of the Arts Berlin in 2001, Helga Blocksdorf acquired in-depth experience in construction management, execution planning and competitions at Staab Architekten (2002–2007), Berlin. Between 2001 and 2013 she was part of the artist collective après-nous, which held international exhibitions and staged installations in cities such as Copenhagen, Berlin and New York. From 2007 to 2102 she held the position of guest professor of constructive design at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and worked as a research assistant in the team headed by Prof. Ute Frank at the TU Berlin. Since 2013 she founded the office Helga Blocksdorf/Architektur in Berlin. In 2021 she was appointed professor and head of the Institute for Construction at the TU Braunschweig. In 2025 she obtained her doctorate as part of the Programme for Design-Based Doctorates (Programm Entwurfsbasierte Promotion, PEP) at the TU Berlin.

“I invited Helga Blocksdorf because I am interested in learning more about the research underlying her book Constructive Disobedience. I would also like to explore how place-specific layers of time and materials are articulated in her work.” – Jenni Reuter

The free online lecture will be held on Zoom, and registration is required. Read more.