- Lecturer -

Barbara Schudok is a lecturer and former research associate at the Chair of Architectural Design and Participation, Technical University of Munich. She is an architect and urban researcher working at the intersection of architectural design, international academic cooperation, research-based teaching and spatial analysis.

Barbara studied Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Stuttgart, the University of Seville and the Technical University of Munich, where she completed her Master of Arts in Architecture. She gained professional experience at Foster + Partners in London and HENN Architekten in Munich, and worked from 2018 to 2025 as a freelance architect and project coordinator with Kéré Architecture in Berlin.

From 2018 to 2025, Barbara worked at the Chair of Architectural Design and Participation in the context of TUM.Africa Architecture. Her role combined chair coordination, academic cooperation, teaching organisation, stakeholder communication, delegation formats, funding processes and institutional project development. A particular focus of her work was the TUM–KNUST partnership in Kumasi, Ghana, including teaching and workshop formats with students from TUM and KNUST and the design development of the TUM–KNUST Cooperation Center together with Prof. Francis Kéré. Within this context, she also acted as an interface between TUM, Kéré Architecture, university partners and external stakeholders, supporting project coordination, communication and presentation processes related to projects such as the TUM Kinderhaus and the TUM Tower.

Barbara has taught and co-organised design studios, seminars, field trips and hands-on formats in Germany, Ghana and Cuba. These include the Caribbean Winter School in Havana, courses at CUJAE in Havana and at the Universidad de Camagüey, as well as visiting teaching formats at the Münster School of Architecture. Her teaching focuses on participation, user-centred and context-based design, passive systems, local resources, material practice, knowledge transfer and design processes across architectural and urban scales.

In 2026, Barbara submitted her doctoral dissertation at the Technical University of Munich. Her research investigates incremental urban transformation in Centro Habana, Cuba, and develops a cross-scalar morphological method for reading informal spatial adaptations within formally established urban structures. Working across architectural and urban scales, her broader interests include urban transformation, context-based design, informal urban processes, spatial documentation, participatory design, material practice and international academic cooperation.