Gabu Heindl | Architect, urban planner and activist
Gabu Heindl is mentor of Ajna Babahmetović.
Gabu Heindl is an architect, urban planner and activist in Vienna as well as professor and head oft he design and research department ARCHITECTURE CITIES ECONOMIES | Building Economy and Project Development at the University of Kassel.
Her office GABU Heindl Architecture focuses on public space, public buildings, common-ownership and non-market housing as well as collaborations in the fields of history politics and critical artistic practice. From 2013 to 2017 she was chair of the ÖGFA – Austrian Society for Architecture.
Gabu has obtained a doctorate in Vienna and studied architecture in Vienna, Tokyo and Princeton University. From 2018 to 2021 she was Visiting Professor at Sheffield University with a research focus on Urban Commons and subsequently Professor of Urban Design at TH Nuremberg. 2019-2023 she ran a Diploma Unit at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA), London.
Gabu lectures frequently and has published numerous articles and books including the co-editing of Building Critique, Architecture and its Discontents, Spector Books 2019, the monograph Stadtkonflikte. Radikale Demokratie in Architektur und Stadtplanung, Mandelbaum 2020 (2022 3rd edition) and with Drehli Robnik: Nonsolution, adocs 2024.