Henriette Steiner

Copenhagen

Henriette Steiner is an Associate Professor at the Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Copenhagen. She holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Cambridge, UK, and has been a researcher or visiting scholar at different design programmes including ETH Zurich and MIT. She is joint project leader (with Svava Riesto) on Women in Danish Architecture 1925–1975, a three-year research project that aims to provide a more just and complete understanding of architecture history by highlighting women’s contributions to the architectural disciplines in Denmark . Steiner’s most recent books are Tower to Tower: Gigantism in Architectural and Digital Culture (MIT Press 2020) and Touch in the Time of Corona: Reflections of Love, Care and Vulnerability in the Pandemic (De Gruyter, 2021). Both books are co-written with Kristin Veel.