Prof. Ragnhild Klußmann

2022-2025 Visiting Professorship in Building Theory and Building Typology at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences

2017-2022 Bob CAMPUS conversion of a textile factory into a mixed-use neighborhood building block (housing, work, school, daycare center, district library, neighborhood kitchen and neighborhood hall), design, planning and process support

2017 the office raumwerk.architekten becomes a PartGmbB of Marc Hübert and Ragnhild Klußmann

2011-2014 bergisch.project, management of a research and teaching project in experimental urban research on the Bergisches Städtedreieck

2011-2014 Research Associate at the Chair of Urban Design, BU Wuppertal, Prof. Dr. Tanja Siems

2007-2011 Research Associate at the Chair of Building Theory and Design, BU Wuppertal, Prof. Susanne Gross

2003-2004 Master’s degree with a focus on architectural theory at BU Wuppertal

Since 2002 partner at raumwerk.architekten in Cologne with a focus on planning and building within existing structures, Phase 0, cooperative project development, and the planning of common-good projects

1998-2002 Planner and Project Manager for Knoll International, Düsseldorf location

1988-1996 Studied architecture at FH Köln and IUAV Venice

2023 Member of the Design Advisory Board of the City of Cologne

2021 Member of the Immovielien network

2018 -2021 Member of the Design Advisory Board of the pilgrimage town of Kevelaer

2018 Appointment to the advisory board of “Initiative Ergreifen” of the Ministry of Homeland, Municipal Affairs, Building and Equality of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

2017 to 2023 Deputy State Chair, BDA NRW

2017 to 2021 Member of the Board, BDA Cologne

2015 Elected to the BDA Board of North Rhine-Westphalia

2012 Appointment to the Association of German Architects

2005 Member of the Chamber of Architects of North Rhine-Westphalia

2021 D-Station, coworking in rural areas, conversion of a farm ensemble, competition 1st prize

2020 Gläserne Werkstatt Solingen, conversion of a department store for sustainable urban production, competition 1st prize

2016 Award for Exemplary Workplaces in the City from MBWSV NRW for the Kontrastwerk projects

2015 Karlsruhe Zukunft Nord, urban design competition in cooperation with studio if+ and Planergruppe Oberhausen, recognition

2012-2014 IUG (Institute for Environmental Design) at BUW, affiliated institute (civil engineering, design, architecture) for the coordination of interdisciplinary research and teaching projects

2011-2014 bergisch.project. International and interdisciplinary research and teaching project on the Bergisches Städtedreieck at the University of Wuppertal

2008-2010 Kolleg-Stadt-NRW, research college of the universities of Dortmund, Aachen and Wuppertal on urban design in NRW, conceptual preparation of the exhibition: Dynamics and Change of Cities on the Rhine – 100 Years of Urban Design in NRW by M:AI

2007 Spurensuche – Regional architectural phenomena in housing construction in NRW, academic development for an exhibition of the Chamber of Architects NRW in cooperation with the Institute for Architectural History and Theory at BUW

Information on architecture projects at: www.raumwerkarchitekten.de

2021 BOB LAB, temporary testing of a coworking space. Spatial installation and exhibition design on a vacant factory floor for Montagstiftung Urbane Räume gAG, Wuppertal

2019 Barbarossaplatz is no pony farm! Spatial intervention at Barbarossaplatz. BDA Cologne

2018 Ebertplatz. Concept and implementation of an installation in urban space. BDA Cologne

2015 DeinSpeisesalon, presentation and exhibition of a designer shelf by raumwerk.architekten as well as guided tours and lectures as part of Passagen (furniture fair) and for Designquartier Ehrenfeld, Cologne

2008 The City of Wishes, Architecture Makes School: concept and implementation of a project week on architecture and urban planning, model project funded by the State of NRW and AKNW

2022 Phase 0 magazine. Contribution to a publication by Baukultur NRW

2020 Woman Architect. Exhibition participation/architectural position at the Haus der Architektur Düsseldorf

2016 Successful Landing… contribution to the EBH 2016 Holzbauforum Cologne publication

2014 bergisch.lab Remscheid, documentation of urban design teaching in SoSe 2014 as part of bergisch.project

2014 bergisch.paper 3, documentation of the design projects for Birker Bad, Solingen as part of bergisch.project. Edited and published with Tanja Siems and Bärbel Offergeld, ISBN 978-3-00-046183-5

2013 bergisch.paper 1+2, documentation of the expert workshop and concept status of the project of the same name. Edited and published with Tanja Siems and Bärbel Offergeld, ISBN 978-3-00-043462-4

2012 Urban Transitions, editing and publication of the symposium and doctoral colloquium of the same name at BUW with Tanja Siems and Katharina Simon, ISBN 978-3-00-037836-2

2007 Spurensuche – Regional architectural phenomena in housing construction in NRW, exhibition catalog, an exhibition of the Chamber of Architects NRW in cooperation with the Institute for Architectural History and Theory at the University of Wuppertal, Düsseldorf

2022 Building Community. Keynote lecture, Regionale OWL Urbanland. Bad Meinberg

2022 Turning old into new. Baukultur NRW network meeting. Panel participation and short lecture on the topic of conversion culture. Stadthalle Gütersloh

2022 Women in Architecture. Interview on the WDR 3 program Mosaik on building within existing structures

2022 Building & Living. Expert participation on sustainable building and building within existing structures at the 10th Rundschau panel

2021 roof top talks. Lecture on the “Kastanienhof” housing project in Cologne

2021 Apartments instead of offices? WDR 5 Quarks Science and More – studio guest interview

2021 Coworking Spaces. Guest lecture at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen, online

2021 How we could build more sustainably – interview on WDR 5 Quarks

2021 Living Lab NRW. Chair of the jury for an NRW research platform on climate-appropriate building from the Solar Decathlon for the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy of the State of NRW. Wuppertal

2020 BDA Prize Bergisch-Land. Chair of the jury and catalog texts

2020 BDA Architecture Prize Gelsenkirchen Vest Recklinghausen 2020. Jury member and catalog contribution

2020 BDA Architecture Prize Right Lower Rhine 2020. Jury member

2019 Building it yourself. 41 x practical lecture, Rohrmeisterei Schwerte

2019 Building for the common good. Lecture on BOB Campus Wuppertal at HDAK

2019 Competition “Ober der Ufer” in the town of Blankenheim. Jury member

2019 A matter of taste?! Exhibition concept for the NRW Architecture Prize and moderation of a discussion round at MHKGB

2019 Master’s thesis TH Köln Architecture. Jury member, student award

2018 From Aachen via Cologne to Gothenburg. Introduction and moderation of the BDA Monday Discussion with Atelier Le Balto from Berlin

2017 It’s the mix that matters. Concept and moderation of the 2017 BDA state series in North Rhine-Westphalia. Reporting and written contributions

2017 BDA Masters. Jury member in the statewide competition for architecture graduates

2017 Cologne housing construction. BDA excursion to selected projects with lecture.

2017 New Standards. Ten theses on housing. Exhibition tour

2016 Cities under stress – ways out of the housing shortage. Concept for the BDA event series 2016 in NRW

2016 Successful Landing… lecture, EBH 2016 Holzbauforum Cologne

2016 Home. Guest critique of a master’s design project at RWTH Aachen, Prof. Carolin Stapenhorst

2015 Love and Failure in Architecture: The Orangery. Lecture at BDA Cologne.

2015 Planned and Unplanned. BDA symposium on planning methodology

2015 ZOOM. Work lecture at the AIT Salon, Architects’ Lunch. Cologne

2015 And around us the city… BDA state series Resource City. Lecture for the workshop in the BDA Monday Discussion, Cologne

2014 Positions on Space. Work lecture at FH Erfurt as part of the BDA exhibition “Neue Neue”

2013 RACHEL – The Architecture Project. Support for the call for entries and chair of the jury in the open source competition for modular, reversible and sustainable housing concepts, Cologne

2013 Experimental urban research between art and science. Lecture as part of the bergisch.project summer academy

2013 bergisch.wo? Lecture as part of the expert symposium, Solingen

2012 inventing region. Lecture and moderation of the expert workshop, BU Wuppertal

2011 City on the River. Lecture, interdisciplinary seminar: architecture, geography, sociology, BU Wuppertal

2011 Innovative Housing Forms. Lecture on multi-storey residential construction, BU Wuppertal

2010 architecture as a task for thought lecture, BDA Positionen with Marc A. Hübert, Cologne

2010 concrete becomes sculpture lecture at the Concrete Technicians’ Day, Erftstadt

2010 Chorweiler, what now? Lecture at the Chair of Building within Existing Structures, BU Wuppertal

2009 Let’s go Graz! Lecture on contemporary architecture in Graz and Styria, BU Wuppertal

2009 A new city: Cologne Chorweiler / Love your city, lectures at the Institute for Architectural History and Theory, seminar Architecture and Urban Design of the 1960s, BU Wuppertal