Tatjana Schneider Explained

Tatjana Schneider is an architect and academic. She is currently head of the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture and the City (GTAS) at the Technical University Braunschweig in Germany.^{[1] [2]} Before this, she was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, England and, in 2014/15, Professor for History and Theory of the City at HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany.^[3] She has a Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde (2006), her thesis title being "Mechanisms of the themed environment".^[4]

The British Council's "Creative Economy" website states that:

Schneider was a founder member of the architectural co-operative Glasgow Letters on Architecture and Space (GLAS, 2000-2007), and also the Sheffield-based AGENCY – Transformative Research into Architectural Practice and Education in 2007 and the Radical Architectures Network in 2013.

Selected publications

• Book: Schneider. Tatjana. Jeremy Till. Till. Jeremy. Flexible Housing. 2007. Elsevier/Architectural. 9780750682022.
• Book: Awan. Nishat. Schneider. Tatjana. Till. Jeremy. Spatial agency : other ways of doing architecture. 2011. Routledge. 9780415571920.
• Florian Kossak, Doina Petrescu, Tatjana Schneider, Renata Tyszczuk, Stephen Walker (editors) (2009). Agency: Working With Uncertain Architectures. Routledge.
• Book: Schneider, Tatjana . This building should have some sort of distinctive shape : the story of the Arts Tower in Sheffield . PAR - Praxis for Architectural Research . 2008 . 9780955666902 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Institutsprofil . Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur und Stadt . 12 September 2018.
2. Web site: Prof. Dr. Tatjana Schneider . Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur und Stadt . 12 September 2018.
3. Web site: Dr. Tatjana Schneider. University of Sheffield. 26 September 2016.
4. Web site: Catalogue record for thesis. Copac. 26 September 2016.