Doctoral Candidate
Vesta Nele Zareh
vesta.n.zareh@campus.tu-berlin.de
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Curriculum Vitae
Since September 2013 Dipl.-Ing. Vesta Nele Zareh is a doctoral candidate at the Habitat unit. She is working on The export of western planning models in the context of post war 20th century geopolitics – The case study of the Tehran Comprehensive Plan by Victor Gruen and Abdol-Aziz Farmanfarmaian.
Vesta Nele Zareh studied architecture, art history and sociology at the TU Berlin and at the UDK in Berlin. In 2004 she completed her studies in architecture with an award-winning thesis. Since 2013 she has a scholarship by the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation to pursue her doctoral research.
In her doctoral research Vesta Nele Zareh focuses on the export of western planning models after 1945. Based on the case study of the Tehran Comprehensive Plan by Victor Gruen and Abdol-Aziz Farmanfarmaian she examines their export in the context of geopolitical changes, global and local strategic objectives, their underlying ideas of society, city and urbanity and the tensions between vision, heritage and adaptation in regard of local realities.
A residence as a visiting scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Design is scheduled in 2016 as part of her research.
In 2012 she worked as a research assistant at the TU Belrin, on a project which was funded by the Climate-KIC, developing a platform for the exchange of best practice models for sustainable urban developments in Europe in cooperation with the Institute for Sustainability, the Imperial College London, and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ Potsdam). During her time as a research assistant at the TU Berlin, she was also involved in several research projects on the adaptability of urban structures and building typologies facing economic, environmental and social challenges of the early 21st century.
Since 2013
Doctoral Candidate, TU Berlin
(Working Title) The export of western planning models in the context of post war 20th century geopolitics – The case study of the Tehran Comprehensive Plan by Victor Gruen and Abdol-Aziz Farmanfarmaian. (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Philipp Misselwitz, Prof. Dr. Wouter Vanstiphout).
2004
Diploma in Architecture (Dipl.-Ing), TU Berlin
(Thesis) On the relationship between diplomacy and space. (Supervisors: Prof. Nathalie de Vries, Prof. Dr. Wouter Vanstiphout).
1997 – 2004
Studies in Architecture, Art History and Sociology with among others, TU Berlin and UdK, Berlin. (Supervisors: Prof. Sauerbruch and Prof. Kees Christiaanse).
2015 – 2016
Lecturer
msa | münster school of architecture
Lecture series: Building typologies in transition
2012
Research Associate
Chair of Building Technology and Architectural Design
Project management and coordination: Eurbanlabs, funded by the Climate-KIC, development of a platform for the exchange of best practice models for sustainable urban development in Europe.
2011 – 2012
Lecturer
LIA – Laboratory for Integrative Methods in Architecture, TU Berlin
Lecture series: Building typologies in transition - economic and environmental challenges in the 21st century.
2006 – 2010
Research Associate
LIA – Laboratory for Integrative Methods in Architecture, TU Berlin
Design and theory seminars, master and diploma course architecture, supervision of research projects.
2004 – 2006
Research Associate
Chair for Urban Design, TU Berlin
Design and theory seminars, master and diploma course architecture, supervision of research projects.
Since 2013
Doctoral Dissertation
(Working Title) The export of western planning models in the context of post war 20th century geopolitics – The case study of the Tehran Comprehensive Plan by Victor Gruen and Abdol-Aziz Farmanfarmaian. (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Philip Misselwitz, Prof. Dr. Wouter Vanstiphout).
2013
Habiter le Grand Paris: Models for a sustainable densification of the greater region of Paris
with LIN Architects Urbanists, Berlin/ Paris; Financed by the Atelier du Grand Paris.
2006
Building Archetypes, Analysis of currently predominant building types in Europe and NAFTA
with LIA – Laboratory for Integrative Methods in Architecture, TU Berlin and Chair for Building Construction and Design, TU Berlin; Financed by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.
2005
BMBF Project: Megacities of Tomorrow – New Towns in Iran
Study on the historical development of the New Town program in Iran; Chair for Urban Design, TU Berlin.
WS 2015/2016
Lecture series: Building typologies in transition
msa | münster school of architecture
WS 2011/2012
Lecture series: Building typologies in transition - economic and environmental challenges in the 21st century. LIA, TU Berlin
SS 2011
Design Seminar: Carbon sink Campus TU Berlin. Chair for Architectural and Sustainable Urban Development, TU Berlin
SS 2010
Design Seminar: Soft Territories. LIA, TU Berlin
WS 2009/2010
Seminar: Future Cities II. LIA, TU Berlin
SS 2009
Design Seminar: Future. LIA, TU Berlin
SS 2009
Seminar: Future Cities I. LIA, TU Berlin
WS 2008/2009
Design Seminar: Paris Métropole Douce. LIA, TU Berlin and MIT, Boston
SS 2008
Design Seminar: AND – Architecture, Nature, Density. LIA, TU Berlin
SS 2008
Seminar: Soft Spaces. LIA, TU Berlin
SS 2008
Seminar: Large-Scale II. LIA, TU Berlin
WS 2007/2008
Design Seminar: DenCity. LIA, TU Berlin
WS 2007/2008
Seminar: Large-Scale I. LIA, TU Berlin
SS 2007
Design Seminar: Grand Plan II. LIA, TU Berlin
SS 2007
Seminar: Idea&Plan. LIA, TU Berlin
WS 2007/2008
Design Seminar: Grand Plan I. LIA, TU Berlin
SS 2006
Design Seminar: Diversité, Disparité, Fatalité. Chair for Urban Design, TU Berlin
WS 2005/2006
Design Seminar: Reclaim the Streets. Chair for Urban Design, TU Berlin
SS 2005
Design Seminar: Capital Cities. Chair for Urban Design, TU Berlin
WS 2004/2005
Design Seminar: New Towns. Chair for Urban Design, TU Berlin
Book contributions
(2015) Case Studies for Ekbathan, Tehran, Iran; Ordos City, Mongolia, China; Rotonda West, Florida, USA; MCMV housing, Eunápolis, Bahia, Brazil; Waldsiedlung-Zehlendorf, Berlin, Germany; eds. Housing after the Neoliberal Turn, International Cases, Spector Books, Leipzig.
(2013) An (almost) all American City – The Vision and Legacy of the Tehran Comprehensive Plan. In: Vinakak, B., ed.
(2013) The Emerging Asian City: It´s Traditions, Tensions & Transformations. Routledge Publishers London.
(2013) Le principe de l`IBA, In Micro-centralités – Systèmes immanents de la ville légèr. Atelier du Grand Paris, ed. Editions Archibooks & AIGP.
(2011) La vie urbaine de Téhéran au 21ème siècle: influence des infrastructures de la mobilité individuelle et de l`Internet. Sous la direction de Dominique Rouillard, ed. L`Infraville / Futurs des infrastructures. Editions Archibooks.
with Hubertus Siegert (2008) Berlin Babylon Revisited – or waitig for the Critical Reconstruction of the 1989`s Berlin. In: Baía, P., ed. Berlin: Reconstrucao Critica. Circo de Ideias.
Refereed articles
(2012) The City within the City – 20th Century Large-Scale Housing Projects Revisited fort he 21st Century Metropolis Post-Kyoto. Dense Cities. Architecture for Living Closer Together. GAM, (8).
Other articles and publications
(2012) Nachnutzung einer Ikone – Das ehemalige Flughafengebäude Tempelhof, in Stadtbauwelt, (191).
(2011) Träumen von einer nachhaltigen Stadt, Taz.
(2010) Rekonstruktion einer Debatte. Archplus, (200).
(2010) Der Berliner Architekturstreit. Baumeister, (8).
(2009) Masdar City – Rückschritt durch Technik. Der Freitag – Das Meinungsmedium.
(2009) Right up your Face – Architecture in the Age of Digital production. LODOWN Magazine, DTP Issue, (1).
(2009) Freiheit zwischen Betonpfeilern. Der Freitag – Das Meinungsmedium.
(2008) Bausparmaßnahme. Der Freitag – Das Meinungsmedium.
(2008) A City under the Influence. Exotic Urbanism. monu – magazine on urbanism, (9).
(2008) I (would) love Tehran. Memory, Amnesia, Urbanism. mu.dot magazine for urban documentary opinion theory.
(2008) Westberlin – My Cold War Heroine. Border Urbanism. monu magazine on urbanism, (8).
(2004) U.S. Embassies. Play and Locations. Pages Magazine for Architecture and urbanism, (2).
Conference Papers
(2014) Grands paysages, paysages proches, paysages urbains: Les espace ouverts comme support du dévéloppement dans le temp IBA Basel, Basel.
(2013) Le principe de l'IBA, Systèmes Métropolitains, AIGP, Paris.
(2012) Atlas Activ, Cities and Change – Industrial heritage sites between monument protection, urban development, creative industries and contemporary architecture. Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Humbolt University Berlin, Berlin.
(2012) Adapting City, E11 European Cities and Juries Forum, Oslo.
(2010) A Streetcar named Desire, LÌnfraville – Colloque international, LIAT, Laboratoire Infrastructure Architecture Territoire de l'Ecole National Superiéure d' Architecture Paris-Malaquais, Paris.
(2015) Typologies Fluviales, LIA, Technische Universität, Berlin
(2009) The Power of the Plan vs. The Power of the Picture, Studio Weil Arets, UDK Berlin.
(2008) Cold War Planning in Berlin, École des ponts et chausées, Paris.
(2007) Tehran – the Making of a Metropolis, Urban Planning Week, Technical University Delft.
2013 – 2016
PHD scholarship Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation
for a doctoral dissertation project in architecture on The export of western planning models in the context of post war 20th century geopolitics – The case study of the Tehran Comprehensive Plan by Victor Gruen and Abdol-Aziz Farmanfarmaian
2011
Award, writing contest: Was ist Raumproduktion der Berliner Republik by akademie c/o, for the text No Nation, No Vision, No Money mit Ali Saad
2010
Scholarship by Zeit-Foundation Ebelin- und Gerd Bucerius in cooperation with the German Center for Art History, with the support of the Gerda Henkel Foundation
Scholarship for the summer school: History Takes Place – Urban Change in Europe, Paris
2008
Scholarship by Zeit-Foundation Ebelin - und Gerd Bucerius in cooperation with the HafenCity University Hamburg, the Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies HU Berlin and the CMS TU Berlin
Scholarship for the conference Stadt und Urbanität im 21. Jahrhundert, Hamburg
2007
Future of the Cities Award, 51st IFHP World Congress
for excellence in teaching for the design seminar Diversité, Disparité, Fatalité, at the Chair for Urban Design, TU Berlin
2004
Daimler Chrysler Award
for the best diploma thesis 2004/2005 in architecture, TU Berlin
2004
DAAD Scholarship
for research within the framework of a final thesis, Tehran, Iran.
2003
Leonardo scholarship
for an internship in Paris, France
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