Klaus Platzgummer
Klaus Platzgummer
History and Theory Studies Lecturer and Thesis Tutor, and Architecture and Urbanism Course Tutor
Klaus is Lecturer in History and Theory Studies and PhD Candidate at the AA. His doctoral research excavates histories of archival infrastructures, aligning with his broader interests in the histories and theories of architecture and media, as well as in the discourses on archival politics, epistemic violence, data criticism and in forensic practices. As Research Associate at the Department of Architecture Theory at TU Berlin (2018–23), he coinitiated the cross-institutional international research collaborative Building Information and was part of the Augmented Historiography Collaborative. Most recently, he coedited the forthcoming volume The Power of Sources in Architecture Research and Practice (2025).
