New professor for Architectural Design as of 1.3.: Susanne Brorson

Susanne Brorson, born in Stralsund in 1979, completed her architecture studies at the Bauhaus University in Weimar in 2004, with study visits to the Berlin University of the Arts, the Politecnico di Milano, Italy and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. After working in renowned architectural firms in Oslo, London and Berlin, she founded her own, award-winning office, STUDIO SUSANNE BRORSON, on the Baltic island of Rügen. The work of her office is closely related to her research into vernacular and climate-friendly architecture in the Baltic Sea region. The ‘Eco Village Rügen’ project was awarded the German Design Award in the ‘Excellent Architecture, Eco Design’ category in 2022 and the BDA Prize 2024, while the ‘Experimental House Rügen’ received the BDA Prize and the Callwey Award / Best Houses 2024 in 2021. In 2017, Susanne established the teaching format ‘Baltic Vernacular – An Experimental Laboratory’, which she taught at various architecture schools and which includes design research and 1:1 experiments.

Susanne has published and lectured internationally and taught as a visiting professor at various universities, including RISEBA University Riga, HafenCity University Hamburg and Università degli Studi RomaTRE in Rome, Italy. A focus of her teaching is experimental design and ‘knowing through making’, via 1:1 built spatial and material experiments that pursue a regenerative and climatic approach. Her contribution ‘Seasonal Wall Dressing’ was part of the exhibition ‘+/-1 – in search of well-tempered architecture’ in the Slovenian Pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2023. Her exhibition ‘Seasonal Spontaneousness’ was shown at the Weissenhofwerkstatt in Stuttgart in 2024 and opens at the Galleri SPARK in Malmö in March 2025. Susanne was awarded the German Rome Prize for Architecture by the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome, Italy in 2023/24.