Tim Altenhof is an architect and senior scientist at the University of Innsbruck. He studied at the Bauhaus University Weimar, the University of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. After three years of practical work, most recently in Zaha Hadid’s office in Hamburg, he commenced his doctoral studies at Yale in 2012, where his dissertation was awarded the Theron Rockwell Field Prize in 2018. An excerpt of this work, which was published in English and Italian under the title “The House-As-Chimney: Erich Mendelsohn’s Breathing Space at Luckenwalde”, won the Bruno Zevi Prize 2018. In 2022, his current book project, Breathing Space: The Architecture of Pneumatic Beings, was supported by a KWI International Fellowship. His writings have appeared, amongst others, in Log, 21:Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Ra. Revista de Arquitectura.
