About
The Office for Housing and Urban Studies (Ofhaus) is based in Vienna, Austria. Ofhaus was founded by Isabel Glogar as a research and design studio focussing on housing, urban design and urban studies with a focus on urban transformation, sustainable architecture and the built environment.
Main Working Fields ares are:
- Housing, Urban Design and Urban Development
- Housing Research and Urban Research
- Architectural and Spatial Research
- Participation and Dialog Processes
- Organisation of Conferences and Workshops, Moderation
- With a focus on:
- ecological and just urban transformation
- participation and neighbourhood development
- affordable housing, collaborative housing and cooperative planning
- housing models, care and diverse family forms and living arrangements
- Sustainable architecture, urban regeneration and impacts the built environment
- Adaptive reuse, architectural adaptation strategies and conversion of the existing building stock
The office works in between architecture, urban design and urban studies and uses methods linked to architectural, urban and social studies. Projects are realized as collaborative projects, working with project specific experts, researchers, initiatives, involved actors and authorities. According to the specific project aim, OFHAUS collaborates with practitioners and researchers coming from different fields and disciplines.
Isabel Glogar is an architect and urban researcher. Since 2019 she is Senior Researcher (Postdoc) at the Professorship of Urban Design at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Head of the Research Group “Cooperative Planning, Collaborative Housing and Neighbourhoods” at TUM.
From 2012 until 2019 she was a lecturer at the Department of Urban Design at the Vienna University of Technology. From 2016 until 2018 she was teaching Urban Design at the University of Applied Sciences FH Campus Vienna. She has taken part in several international conferences and workshops and, in 2014, she was a Visiting Teacher at the AA School of Architecture in London. She holds a PhD (2016) from the University of Art and Design in Linz and graduated from the ETH Zürich as Master of Advanced Studies (2011), Specialization in Housing, after completing her MA (2008) studies in architecture at the TU Vienna.
Main research fields are: cooperative planning, collaborative housing, equal cities, (climate) justice and urban development, adaptive reuse, particpation and neighbourhood development, housing and family dynamics, suburbanisation and urban peripheries, urban transformations, urban regeneration and sustainable building and urban development, everyday life, use of urban spaces, appropriation, participation, changing practices in architecture and urban design education.
OFHAUS
Office for Housing and Urban Studies
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Isabel Glogar
Dr. Dipl.-Ing, MAS ETH/housing
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