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Stefanie Weinrauch

MA

 

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Stefanie Weinrauch has been employed as a junior researcher at the Institute for Architecture at the FH JOANNEUM GmbH, University of Applied Sciences since August 2013. She studied Art History at the Karl-Franzens University of Graz (spezialisation in architecture) and wrote her Master Thesis about the Margaretenhof in Vienna (The Margaretenhof in Vienna: its architects, history and influence on residential building). The Margaretenhof was built in 1884/1885 by the architects Ferdinand Fellner the Younger and Hermann Helmer for baroness Amalie Lipthay. The studio Fellner & Helmer brought international fame for the young architects and made them known far beyond the borders of the Danube Monarchy.

After that she studied Exhibition Design at the FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences.

She is currently writing her dissertation on demolished post-war modern buildings in Austria at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz and is completing an apprenticeship as "Maintenance Manager for Heritage Assets" at the EUROPEAN HERITAGE ACADEMY.

Her scientific research projects are currently u.a. ‘Leitfaden für klimagerechtes und qualitätsvolles Bauen im Baubezirk Murau‘.

Previous projects:
• Campus 2050
• 3X Murau
• Urban development Güssing
• WTZ: IDES 4 RESEARCH
• Shared Desk Reininghaus (Graz Kulturjahr 2020)
• Buidling culture documentation Murau
• Urban development Bad Radkersburg
• Provinz Denken.Bauen.Leben
• Farm yard 21
• Edible Facade

Apart from doing research she is responsible for the planning and the organisation of the annual excursions, of different lecture series or exhibitions of the master degree programme. Furthermore, she maintains the website of the master degree programme. Her work activities primarily comprise the PR and the dissemination activities of the master degree programme.

Beside this she has two lecture series called ‘Selected Topics: Cultural History and Architecture’, ‘Cultural Heritage in an International Context‘ and the seminar ‘Master Thesis Seminar’.

In 2015, she published the book REANIMATION. Bringing art to new life outside of the museum.

She is an active member of ICOM Austria and DOCOMOMO Austria.

She is a scholarship holder of the ‘Erzherzog-Johann Zukunftsfonds-Wissenschaftsförderungsjahrgang‘ 2023.