Baerbel Mueller

Baerbel Mueller is an architect and researcher based in Austria and Ghana. She is associate professor and head of the [applied] Foreign Affairs lab at the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, which investigates spatial and cultural phenomena in rural and urban Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle-East, and founder of nav_s baerbel mueller [navigations in the field of architecture and urban research within diverse cultural contexts]. Her work comprises architecture, urban research, installations, scenography, and curatorial projects, and has been widely exhibited; e.g. at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2006, the Architekturmuseum Pinakothek Munich in 2013, and the Marrakech Biennial in 2016. She received various prizes and scholarships. In 2015, she was awarded with the Ars Docendi State Award for excellence in teaching by the Republic of Austria. In 2017, she edited [applied] Foreign Affairs : investigation spatial phenomena in rural and urban Sub Saharan Africa.