Author: Petra Pferdmenges

Rochus Hinkel is Professor of Interior Architecture and Furniture Design at Konstfack – University College of Arts, Craft and Design in Stockholm, and Professor of Artistic Design at OTH Regensburg. He has taught at RMIT”s School of Architecture and Design, TU Berlin, the University Stuttgart and the State Academy of Fine Art in Stuttgart. His practice has been exhibited internationally, including Kortrijk, Belgium, and Basel, Switzerland. Rochus has also served as curator at the Weißenhof Architecture Gallery in Stuttgart where he inaugurated the Weißenhof-Architekturförderpreis. Besides he has established in 2011 a series of roundtable discussions in Berlin, Melbourne and Stockholm, where like-minded practitioners and academics from a diversity of elds meet. He was the editor of Urban Interior – Informal explorations, interventions and occupations (Spurbuchverlag, 2011), Notions of Space (Craft Victoria, 2008) and guest editor of Stadtbauwelt Melbourne (Stadtbauwelt, 2005). Rochus holds a Ph D by thesis and creative works from the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne.