Ute Poerschke
- Professor of Architecture
- Associate Department Head for Graduate Education
429 Stuckeman
- Email uxp10@psu.edu
- Phone 814-865-4238
- Vitae Download/View CV
![Ute Poerschke](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/directoryImages/_480x480_crop_center-center_80_none/arch_poerschke_ute_23.jpg)
Biography
Ute Poerschke, professor and associate department head for graduate education, teaches architectural design and technical systems integration/comprehensive studio.
Prior to her tenure at Penn State, she taught design, construction, and environmentally responsible architecture at the Technical Universities of Berlin and Munich (1999–2005) and completed her doctoral degree in architectural theory at the Technical University of Cottbus in 2005.
She is a licensed architect and licensed urban planner in Germany, an international member of the American Institute of Architects, and a LEED-accredited professional. Poerschke is a principal of the firm Friedrich-Poerschke-Zwink Architekten | Stadtplaner in Munich, Germany, and co-editor of the architectural journal Wolkenkuckucksheim | Cloud-Cuckoo-Land.
Poerschke’s research focuses on the relationship of architecture and technology, the theory of functionalism, and the interpretation of how architects integrate aspects of technology with expression in architectural projects and education. Most of her recent work focuses on the high modernism of the 1920s to 1960s, particularly on how architects responded to the progressing lighting and heating, cooling, and ventilation science, technology and engineering of the time.
Collected Works
![Overhead photo of Ute leaning forward as she points to an area on an architectural diagram posted on a board while talking to her third-year students.](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/work/_860xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/3rd_year_studio.jpg)
![Group photo of Ute with her students standing outside the light grey Bauhaus building during the day.](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/work/_860xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/2015-pennstate-students-visit-bauhaus-dessau.jpg)
![Symposium poster for the 2019 Bauhaus Centennial featuring a photo of a building, with overlaid tranparent geometric color blocking in slate grey and clay red. Accompanied with symposium title and event information.](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/work/_860xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/bauhaus_transfers_symposium.jpg)
![Black and white graphic of a black outlined rectangle in the upper right hand corner; focal image is of vertical white and grey lines of varying widths grouped into geometric shapes against a solid black background.](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/work/_860xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/bauwelt_fundamente_no161_feldhusen_poerschke_with_author_list.jpg)
![Composite image of four journals titled the following: "Theorizing Technology in Architecture and Urbanism" (Top left, aqua cover); "Bauhaus Transfers" (Top right, red cover); "Mixings in Architecture and Landscape Architecture" (Bottom left, mauve cover); "Between Architecture and Landscape Architecture" (Bottom right, beige cover).](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/work/_860xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/cloud-cuckoo-land-no33_34_35_39_39.jpg)
![Aerial view illustration of Ute's childcare center design.](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/work/_860xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/friedrich_poerschke_zwink_architekten_competition_child_care_center.jpg)
![Black and white minimal-style covers of books authored by Ute Poerschke (English and German versions).](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/work/_860xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/poerschke-architectural-theory-of-modernism.jpg)
![Aerial view illustration of Ute's architectural design for the Robert-Boehringer-School.](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/work/_860xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/robert-boehringer-school-c-friedrich-poerschke-zwink-architekten.jpg)
![Photo of Ute and her students wearing bright green t-shirts, sitting on a stone wall.](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/work/_860xAUTO_fit_center-center_80_none/seed_at_phipps_2017.jpg)