Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Florian Hertweck is an architect and head of the master’s program in architecture at the University of Luxembourg. From 2009 to 2016 he was professor of architecture and urban planning at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles, from 2013 to 2015 visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. He studied architecture and art history in Paris and Newcastle.

His teaching and research are concerned with the socio-ecological transformation of urban and suburban spaces. Thus, from 2020 to 2022, he led a consortium of planners and researchers in the international research program Luxembourg in Transition. Spatial visions for the low carbon and sustainable future of the Luxembourg functional region. From 2018 to 2020, he worked with Prof. Milica Topalovic of ETH Zurich and her teams to develop a sustainable spatial model for the metropolitan region of Geneva as part of the Consultation du Grand Genève.

Since 2018, he has sat on the Conseil Supérieur de l’Aménagement du Territoire, which advises Luxembourg’s Minister of Spatial Planning. With his team at the University of Luxembourg, he has prepared various architectural and urban feasibility studies for the Luxembourg government.

In 2018, he curated with Andrea Rumpf the Luxembourg pavilion of the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale on the question of soil. He is currently co-curating the exhibition The Great Repair, which will be on view at the Akademie der Künste Berlin starting in October and deals with approaches to a repair society.

Hertweck is the editor of numerous publications on socio-ecological spatial production, most recently The Great Repair. Policies of the repair society (ARCH+, No. 250) and Architecture on common ground. Positions and models on the land question (Lars Müller Publishers 2020).