Ute Poerschke

• Dr.-Ing. in Architecture, Brandenburg Technical University at Cottbus, Germany
• Dipl. Ing. from Technical University of Munich, D
• Ph.D. from Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus, D

• Architectural Design III (B.Arch.)
• Architectural Design IV (B.Arch.)
• Technical Systems Integration
• Environmentally Conscious Design
• Architectural Design III (M.Arch.)
• Architectural Design IV (M.Arch.)

2022

• Jewish National Fund USA Faculty Fellowship

2020

• Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS) Graduate Faculty Teaching Award

2014

• George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching

2011

• Honorable Mention in the 2011 NCARB Prize Program for Creative Integration of Practice and Education in the Academy

2010

• AIA BIM Award Category “Academic Program and Curriculum Development”
• Autodesk BIM Experience Award

AWARDS IN ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS

2019

•  Children Daycare Center Stutzwinkel in Straubing, D, with FPZ-Architekten, 2nd prize

2018

• Youth Center in Landsberg am Lech, D, with FPZ-Architekten, 1st prize

2015

• Robert-Boehringer-Schule (middle school) in Winnenden, D, with FPZ-Architekten, 1st prize

2014

• City Hall in Altbach, D, with FPZ-Architekten, honorable mention

2013

• Werdenfels Museum in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, D, with FPZ-Architekten, 3rd prize
• Fritz-Beck-Schule (middle school) in Landsberg, D, with FPZ-Architekten, runner-up

2011

• Dahlmann Schle (highschool) in Frankfurt, D, 4th prize

2010

• City Center Neufinsing, D, urban planning competition, with FPZ-Architekten, honorable mention
• Senior Center and its Urban Context in Gundelsheim, D, with FPZ-Architekten, 2nd prize
• Elementary School with Gymnasium, Natatorium, and Day Care Center in Frankfurt, D, with FPZ-Architekten, 2nd prize

2009

• Student Hostel in Augsburg, D, with FPZ-Architekten, 5th prize

2008

• Enlargement of the Veitsburg (Youth Hostel) in Ravensburg, D, with FPZ-Architekten, runner-up

2007

• Bridge in Salzburg, A, with FPZ-Architekten, 3rd rank 2006 Penn State Faculty Charrette, 3rd prize

2005

• Archives in Essen, D, with FPZ-Architekten, runner–up

2003

• Refectory in Martinsried, D, with FPZ-Architekten, 5th prize

2002

• City Center in Regensburg, D, with S. Zwink, 4th prize

2001

• Housing in Munich, D, with K. Friedrich, S. Hoff, and S. Zwink, 1st prize

2000

• Horticultural Show in Riem, D, with D. Straub (L.Arch.), runner–up

1998–99

• Housing in Weißenfels, D, (Eurpoan 5), 1st prize

PUBLICATIONS IN ARCHITECTURAL THEORY

2020

• Poerschke, U., “Architectural Design and Doctoral Research.” In: Federica Goffi and Ryan Stec: InterVIEWS: Insights and Introspection on Doctoral Research in Architecture. New York: Routledge 2020, 221-230.

2019

• Poerschke, U., Rim, D., Pei, G., Mirhosseini, H., “The ‘Air-Wall’: Re-Evaluating a Mid-Twentieth Century Four-Sided Double-Skin Façade.” In: TAD Technology | Architecture, and Design, vol. 3 (2019), no. 2, pp. 200-210. ISSN 2475-1448. https://doi.org/10.1080/24751448.2019.1640538.
• Poerschke U., Purdy, D. (eds.), Bauhaus Transfers, theme issue of Wolkenkuckucksheim | Cloud-Cuckoo-Land. International Journal of Architectural Theory, vol. 24 (2019) no. 39, 245 p. ISSN 1430-8363.
• Poerschke, U., “Der Funktionsbegriff am Bauhaus.” In: Die Schweizer Avantgarde und das Bauhaus, edited by Gregor Grämiger, Ita Heinze-Greenberg, Lothar Schmitt, Zurich: gta-Verlag 2019, 121–131.

2018

• Poerschke, U.: “Data-Driven Design in HIgh Modernism: Ludwig Hilberseimer’s Solar Orientation Studies,” in Happiness. EAAE ARCC Conference Proceedings 2018, Philadelphia, pp. 124–132.

2017

• Poerschke, U.: “Ringen um Worte, Klären der Ideen: Rationalismus und Funktionalismus” and “Vom Landschaftsorientierten Siedlungsbau zum Zeilenbau: Städtebau in der Weimarer Republik,” in: T. Rosani (ed.): Luoghi del Moderno 1920–1950 Klares Bauen, Bolzano: La Fabbrica del Tempo, pp. 20–27 and 118–125.
• Poerschke, U.: “Conceptual History and Architectural Theory,” in Poerschke, U. and Feldhusen, S. (ed.): Theorie der Architektur. Zeitgenössische Positionen (Theory of Architecture. Contemporary Positions). Basel: Birkhäuser.

2016

• Poerschke, U.: Architectural Theory of Modernism. Relating Functions and Forms. Translation and Modification by Steven Lindberg and Ute Poerschke of Funktionen und Formen (see below). New York: Routledge.
• Poerschke, U., Feldhusen, S. (ed.): Mixings in Architecture and Landscape Architecture, theme issue of Wolkenkuckucksheim | Cloud-Cuckoo-Land, vol. 21, nr. 35.
• Poerschke, U., Pisciotta, H., Goldberg, D., Ling, M., Goad, L., Hadighi, M.: “Making the Glass House Habitable. The Debate on Transparency and A. William Hajjar’s Contribution in the Mid-Twentieth Century” and “The ‘Air-Wall’: A Mid-Twentieth-Century Double-Skin Facade by A. William Hajjar,” 2016 Facade Tectonics Congress Proceedings, pp. 291–299 and 473–482.

2015

• Poerschke, U., Feldhusen, S. (ed.): Between Architecture and Landscape Architecture, theme issue of Wolkenkuckucksheim | Cloud-Cuckoo-Land, vol. 20, nr. 34.

2014

• Poerschke, U., Schürer, O. (ed.): Theorizing Technology in Architecture and Urbanism, theme issue of Wolkenkuckucksheim | Cloud-Cuckoo-Land, vol. 19, nr. 33.
• Poerschke, U.: Funktionen und Formen, Architekturtheorie der Moderne. Bielefeld: Transcript.

2013

• Poerschke, U.: “On Concrete Materiality in Architecture,” Architectural Research Quarterly ARQ, vol. 17, nr. 2, pp. 149–56.

2012

• Poerschke, U., Führ, E. (ed.), Purpose, Function, Use in Architecture and Urbanism, theme issue of Wolkenkuckucksheim | Cloud-Cuckoo-Land, vol. 17, nr. 1.
• Poerschke, U.: “Architecture as a Mathematical Function: Reflections on Gottfried Semper,” Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics, vol. 14, nr. 1, pp. 119–234.

2011

• Poerschke, U.: “Francesco Milizia e l’idea di funzione e rappresentazione,” in: Marco Russo (ed.): Francesco Milizia e il teatro del suo tempo: Architettura, Musica, Scena, Acustica; Trento: Editrice Universita di Trento, pp. 89–102.
• Poerschke, U.: “Architektur als mathematische Funktion. Überlegungen zu Gottfried Semper,” in: M. Eggers (ed.): Von Ähnlichleiten und Unterschieden. Vergleich, Analogie, Klassifikation in Wissenschaft und Literatur; Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pp. 119–39.

2009

• Poerschke, U.: “‘Stein nicht Stein? Holz nicht Holz?’ – Zur konkreten Materialität von Architektur,” in: Wolkenkuckucksheim | Cloud-Cuckoo-Land, vol. 14, nr. 1: Das Konkrete und die Architektur/Concreteness in Architecture, edited by S. Hauser and C. Dreyer.
• Poerschke, U.: “Form-Funktion-Verknüpfungen in der Architektur (Form-Function-Relationships in Architecture),” in: S. Muhr; W. Windorf (ed.): Wahrheit und Wahrhaftigkeit in der Kunst von der frühen Neuzeit bis heute, Berlin: Reimer, pp. 73–84.
• Poerschke, U.: “Transfer wissenschaftlicher Funktionsbegriffe in die Architekturtheorie des 18.Jahrhunderts (The Transfer of Scientific Terms of Function to 18th Century Architectural Theory),” in: M. Eggers; M. Rothe (ed.): Wissenschaftsgeschichte als Begriffsgeschichte, Bielefeld: Transcript, pp. 193–211.

2007

• Poerschke, U.: “Hannes Meyer – Connecting Poetics and Ethics,” Proceedings of the Conference “Reconciling Poetics and Ethics in Architecture” at the Canadian Centre for Architecture CCA and McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
• Poerschke, U.: “Über architektonische Strukturen – Architectural Structures,” in: D. Eberle; P. Simmendinger: Von der Stadt zum Haus. Eine Entwurfslehre – From City to House. A Design Theory, Zürich: gta, pp. 82–95.
• Poerschke, U.: “Rethinking Function,” Proceedings of the ARCC/EAAE 2006 Conference at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 206–13.

PUBLICATIONS ON ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS DESIGN

2017

• Poerschke, U.: “The Sun for All: Social Equity and the Debate on the Best Solar Orientation of High Modernist Housing,” in: M. Couceiro da Costa, F. Roseta, J. Pestana Lages, and S. Couceiro da Costa (eds.): Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges. Proceedings of the 10th EAAE/ARCC International Conference, Boca Raton/London/New York/London: CRC Press, pp. 367–373.

2015

• Poerschke, U.: “Solar Buildings in the 1920s: The Discourse on Best Sun Orientation in Modern Housing,” 2015 SOLAR Conference Proceedings.

2013

• Poerschke, U., Gampfer, S. (ed.), Environmentally Conscious Architecture, special issue of Buildings, editorial pp. 766–770.
• Rekstad N.M., Srebric J., Poerschke U.: “Microcliamte Analyses for the Design of Building-Integrated Wind Turbines,” in: Chimay Anumba and Ali M. Memari (ed.): AEI 2013. Building Solutions for Architectural Engineering, pp. 604–613.

2012

• Leicht R., Messner J., Poerschke U.: “INVOLVE: Developing Interactive Workspaces that impact Communication and Task Performance when using Virtual Prototypes,” Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering.

2011

• Poerschke, U. (ed.): “Wind Turbine Integration in Architecture and the Built Environment,” exhibition catalog, State College (85 pages). See also: wind.psu.edu.
• Poerschke, U.; Kalisperis, L.; Santamouris, M.; Spanou, A.: “Design Approaches for Upgrading Historically Significant Architecture Toward Zero-Energy: The Republic of Cyprus Presidential Palace,” in: M. Bodart and A. Evrard (ed.): Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture PLEA, Presses Universitaires de Louvain, pp.527–532.
• Poerschke, U.; Woollen, M.; Stewart, S.; Srebric, J.; Murtha, T.: “Design Investigations on Building-Integrated Wind Energy: Lessons from an Architecture Studio,” Proceedings of the 2011 American Solar Energy Society (ASES) Conference, Raleigh, NC, pp.955–962.

2009

• Poerschke, U.: “Simulationsprogramme für Umweltsensitives Entwerfen – Simulation Applications for Environmentally Sensitive Design,” in: Bauhaus Universität Weimar (ed.): Proceedings of the 2nd Bauhaus Solar Conference, Weimar (CD-ROM).
• Bambardekar, S.; Poerschke, U.: “The Architect as Performer of Energy Simulation in the Early Design Stage,” in: P. Strachan, N. Kelly, M. Kummert (ed.): Building Simulation 2009: Proceedings of the 11th International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) Conference at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, pp. 1306–1313.

2008

• Poerschke, U.; Kalisperis, L.: “Integrating Energy Simulation Applications and Building Information Modeling in the Design Studio,” in: Roaf, S., Bairstow, A. (ed.): The Oxford Conference. A Re-Evaluation of Education in Architecture, Southampton: WITPress, pp. 307–310.

2007

• Poerschke, U.; Kalisperis, L.: “BIM: Defining Opportunities for Environmentally Sensitive Design,” in: Wittkopf, St., Tan, B. (ed.): Sun, Wind and Architecture. The Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture PLEA, Singapore, pp. 302–308.

PUBLICATIONS ON TEACHING ARCHITECTURE

2013

• Iulo L., Gorby C., Poerschke U., Kalisperis L., Woollen M.: “Environmentally Conscious Design – Educating Future Architects,” International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education IJSHE, vol. 14, nr. 4, pp. 434–448.

2011

• Messner, J.; Holland, R.; Poerschke, U.; Parfitt, K.; Pihlak, M.: “Educating the Master Building Team: Leveraging BIM to Enable the Development of Collaborative Knowledge,: in: BIM in Academia, edited by Peggy Deamer and Phillip G. Bernstein, New Haven: Yale School of Architecture, pp.57–67.
• Pihlak, M., Deamer, P., Holland, R., Poerschke, U., Messner, J., Parfitt, K.: “Building Information Modeling (BIM) and the Impact on Design Quality,” In: Journal of Architectural Engineering Technology JAET, vol.1, nr.101.

2010

• Poerschke, U.; Holland, R.; Messner, J.; Pihlak, M.: “BIM Collaboration Across Six Disciplines,” in: Tizani, W. (ed.): Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering; Nottingham: University of Nottingham Press, pp.575–580.
• Committee for Environmentally Conscious Architecture; Iulo, L.; Poerschke, U.: “Innovation in Education: Implementing Environmentally Conscious Design in Architecture Curricula,” in: Anumba, C., et al. (ed.): Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Innovation in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC); Loughborough, UK, pp.487–496.

2007

• Poerschke, U.: “Teaching the Relation of Environmental Sensitivity and Conceptual Design,” in: Wittkopf, St.; Tan, B. (ed.): Sun, Wind and Architecture. The Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture PLEA, Singapore, pp. 699–705

• 2020–present Member, Society of Architectural Historians
• 2015–present Member of BDA (German Association of Architects)
• 2013–present Member of MAIV (Munich Society of Architects and Engineers)
• 2008–present Member of Society of Building Science Educators

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES/REGISTRATIONS

• 2009–present, LEED AP, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional
• 2008–present, Licensed Urban Planner, Bavarian Chamber of Architects, Germany
• 2007–present, Associate International Architect, American Institute of Architects
• 1996–present Licensed Architect, Bavarian Chamber of Architects, Germany