Norbert Kling

Dr.-Ing. (TUM) DipArch (UEL)
Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Architect and Urbanist

Room 2237

Arcisstrasse 21
D-80333 München

Tel. +49 89 289 22340
Fax. +49 89 289 25016

Since 2018, Norbert has been teaching urban design, architecture, and urban theory at the Chair of Sustainable Urbanism. His research interests include conditions of asymmetric urban change, multi-dimensional inner development, thick mapping, and concept formation in the spatial disciplines. He is the author of The Redundant City (transcript, 2020) and co-author of Entwurfslehre im Bachelor Architektur: Das Cottbus Experiment (Reimer, 2011). He co-edited Taking Action: Transforming Athens' Urban Landscapes (Jovis, 2023) and Porous City: From Metaphor to Urban Agenda (Birkhäuser, 2018). The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) supported his research in Athens in the spring of 2023 with a bilateral research exchange grant. For The Redundant City, he was awarded the 2020 Dr Marschall Prize by the Department of Architecture.

Norbert is trained and registered as an architect (ARB, ByAK) and urban planner (ByAK). He studied at the Technical University of Munich, the University of East London, and the London Metropolitan University/UNL (RIBA Part 3). In 2003 he co-founded the office www.zectorarchitects.net together with Carsten Jungfer in London and Munich. He has been involved in numerous realisations, including Dalston Roof Park and the redesign of Kavalierstrasse Dessau. zectorarchitects won 1st prize in the EUROPAN 10 competition (Dessau) and were co-winners of the EUROPAN 9 (Linz) competition. In 2020 the practice received the architecture award by the city of Munich (Förderpreis 2020 der Landeshauptstadt München).

From 2014 to 2018, he taught urban design at the Chair of Urban and Regional Planning at TUM, collaborated on the conference and publication project Porous City, conducted research on the conceptualisation of conflict and change in architecture and urbanism, and a situational analysis of a large housing estate in Munich. In 2019 he completed his doctorate with the empirically grounded, sensitising concept of the Redundant City (first supervisor Prof. S. Wolfrum).

From 2007 to 2012 Norbert worked at the Brandenburg University of Technology at the Chair of Design and Building Studies, where he taught in the design studio and conducted research on design education in the Bachelor of Architecture. During his time at BTU, he initiated the faculty’s cooperation with the European network OIKONET.

PUBLIKATIONEN

Kling, Norbert; Roidis, Anastasios & Michaeli, Mark: Εισαγωγή: Αναλαμβάνοντας Δράση: Προς μια Θετική Αστική Αλλαγή. In: Kling, Norbert; Roidis, Anastasios & Michaeli, Mark (Hrsg.): Taking Action: Transforming Athens' Urban Landscapes. Jovis, 2023 mehr…
Kling, Norbert; Roidis, Anastasios & Michaeli, Mark: Taking Action: Working Towards Positive Change. In: Taking Action: Transforming Athens' Urban Landscapes. Jovis, 2023, S. 25-31 mehr…
Kling, Norbert: Linking Situational Analysis to Architecture and Urbanism: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research 24(2) (2023), 2023 mehr…
Kling, Norbert: Visions and Local Knowledge: The Urban Everyday as Space of Change. In: Kling, Norbert; Roidis, Tasos & Michaeli, Mark (Hrsg.): Taking Action: Transforming Athens' Urban Landscapes. Jovis, 2023, 117–134 mehr…
Goudis, Michalis & Kling, Norbert: Futureproofing Greek Cities: Old Tools are not Enough. In: Kling, Norbert; Roidis, Anastasios, Michaeli, Mark (Hrsg.): Taking Action: Transforming Athens' Urban Landscapes. Jovis, 2023, 241–252 mehr…
Kling, Norbert; Roidis, Anastasios & Michaeli, Mark (eds.): Taking Action: Transforming Athens' Urban Landscapes. Jovis (1. Aufl.), 2023 mehr…
Jungfer, Carsten; Palmieri, Fernanda & Kling, Norbert: “DALSTON! WHO ASKED U?”: A Knowledge-Centred Perspective on the Mapping of Socio-Spatial Relations in East London. Urban Planning 7 (3), 2022, 191–205 mehr…
Roidis, Anastasios; Kling, Norbert; Michaeli, Mark; Gelabert Y Nuez, Alix; Manessi, Marena Konstantinidi; Koulouris, Spyridon-Nektarios; Miyazaki, Toshihiro; Niarchos, Panos; Schall, Raphael Marius; Stoib, Laura; Zhu, Yuzhe;: Inner-Urban Landscapes – Athens – Munich. , Hrsg.: Kling, Norbert; Roidis, Anastasios; Michaeli, Mark: Lehrstuhl für Nachhaltige Entwicklung von Stadt und Land TUM. Sustainable Urbanism, 2021, mehr…
Rummel, Dorothee; Kling, Norbert; Hoffmann, Laura; Koulouris, Spyridon-Nektarios; Magliozzi, Marco; Ortmann, Céline; Prendi, Alesia; Probst, Freya; Scherr, Ellen; Schmid, Chiara: Mentally Urban Magazin #2. , Hrsg.: Rummel, Dorothee; Kling, Norbert; Michaeli, Mark: Lehrstuhl für Nachhaltige Entwicklung von Stadt und Land TUM, 2020, mehr…
Rummel, Dorothee; Jung-Sievers, Caroline; Kling, Norbert; Prendi, Alesia; Liu, Cong; Probst, Freya; Schröer, Claudia; Hackl, Christina; Fritz, Sara; Klier, Kristin; Saringer-Hamiti, Lea; Foppiano, Francesco; Hriskova, Katharina; Rathgeb, Chiara; Bornemann, Welf; Kröger, Melanie; Lindmeyer, Julia; Skalt, Daniela; Moser, Rebecca; Fehrmann, Anika; Fiedler, Dinah; Krudewig, Cara: Mentally Urban Magazin #4. , Hrsg.: Rummel, Dorothee; Jung-Sievers, Caroline; Kling, Norbert; Michaeli, Mark: Lehrstuhl für Nachhaltige Entwicklung von Stadt und Land TUM, 2020, mehr…
Rummel, Dorothee; Kling, Norbert; de Oliviera Pedro, Antonio Cameira Ferandes; Liu, Cong; Mühlbauer, Franziska; Perkuhn, Florian; Richter, Hans; de Armas Cabrera, Juan; Tutsch, Lara; Wrighton, Leonie Annette; Sudiarto, Prayudi; Koulouris, Spyridon-Nektarios: Mentally Urban Magazin #3. , Hrsg.: Rummel, Dorothee; Kling, Norbert; Michaeli, Mark: Lehrstuhl für Nachhaltige Entwicklung von Stadt und Land TUM, 2020, mehr…
Ott, Max; Kling, Norbert; Zöhrer, Christian: City of the Many. The Urban Transcripts Journal (Volume 3, No. 3), 2020 mehr…
Kling, Norbert: The Redundant City – A Multi-Site Enquiry into Urban Narratives of Conflict and Change. transcript, 2020 mehr…
Kling, Norbert; Ott, Max: Veränderung Verhandeln. Neue Heimat und danach. In: Lepik, Andres; Strobl, Hilde (Hrsg.): Die Neue Heimat (1950–1982). Eine Sozialdemokratische Utopie und ihre Bauten. Detail Verlag, 2019, 94–99 mehr…
Kling, Norbert; Jungfer, Carsten: Contested Porosities. A Spatial Enquiry into Urban Conflicts in Dalston, East London. In: Wolfrum, Sophie; Stengel, Heiner; Kurbasik, Florian; Kling, Norbert; Dona, Sofia; Mumm, Imke; Zöhrer, Christian (Hrsg.): Porous City. From Metaphor to Urban Agenda. Birkhäuser, 2018, 260–265 mehr…
Kling, Norbert; Kurbasik, Florian: Hanging Around in the Urban Field. In: Wolfrum, Sophie; Stengel, Heiner; Kurbasik, Florian; Kling, Norbert; Dona, Sofia; Mumm, Imke; Zöhrer, Christian (Hrsg.): Porous City. From Metaphor to Urban Agenda. Birkhäuser, 2018, 238–240 mehr…
Kling, Norbert: Understanding Change. Tracing Transformative Interactions in a Large Commonhold-Type Housing Estate. Proceedings of the Third Oikonet International Conference ‘Global Dwelling: Sustainability. Design. Participation’, 2016, 175–182 mehr…

weitere Veröffentlichungen:

Wolfrum, Sophie. Stengel, Heiner. Kurbasik, Florian. Kling, Norbert. Dona, Sofia. Mumm, Imke. Zöhrer, Christian eds. (2018) Porous City. From Metaphor to Urban Agenda, Basel
Kling, Norbert (2016) Understanding change: tracing transformative interactions in a large commonhold-type housing estate. Presentation on the Third Oikonet Conference, Global Dwelling: Sustainability – Design – Participation. Manchester 23 September 2016 [link to pdf]
Kling, Norbert (2011) A Case Study: Integrating the Case Repository in a Curriculum, in: Madrazo, Leandro ed. (2011) Oikodomos Compendium. Barcelona [pdf] www.oikodomos.org/resources/compendium.pdf, Barcelona, pp.36–38
Knoll, Richard. Praeger, Henri. Zillich, Julia. Kling, Norbert. Tümmers, Michael (2011) Entwurfslehre im Bachelor Architektur. Das Cottbus Experiment, Berlin
Knoll, Richard. Praeger, Henri, Zillich, Julia. Kling, Norbert. Tümmers, Michael (2008) The Cottbus Experiment, in: Generalist. On Designing, vol. 0, Darmstadt, pp.74–79