Helge Mooshammer

HELGE MOOSHAMMER is an architect, author and curator. He conducts urban and cultural research in the Department of VISUAL CULTURE at the TU Wien, is Co-Director of the CENTRE FOR GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE, and Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

He has initiated and directed numerous international research projects focusing on issues relating to (post)capitalist urban economics and urban informality, including the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) projects “Relational Architecture” (2006-09), “Other Markets” (2010-15) and “Incorporating Informality” (2018-23). In 2008 he was a Research Fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum für Kulturwissenschaften (IFK) in Vienna. He has taught at a number of institutions, including the University of Art and Design Linz, the Merz Akademie Stuttgart, and Goldsmiths College, University of London.

HELGE MOOSHAMMER’s current research is focused on architecture, contemporary art and new forms of urban sociality in a context shaped by processes of trans-nationalisation, neo-liberalisation and infrastructuring. Together with PETER MÖRTENBÖCK he curated the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, which explored the theme of “platform urbanism”.

His latest publications co-authored with PETER MÖRTENBÖCK include

▶ 2015 “Informal Market Worlds: The Architecture of Economic Pressure”, (with TEDDY CRUZ and FONNA FORMAN), nai010 publishers
▶ 2016 “Andere Märkte: Zur Architektur der informellen Ökonomie”, transcript
▶ 2016 “Visual Cultures as Opportunity”, Sternberg/MIT Press
▶ 2020 “Data Publics: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy”, Routledge
▶ 2021 “Platform Urbanism and Its Discontents”, nai010 publishers
▶ 2023 “In/formal Marketplaces: Experiments with Urban Reconfiguration”, nai010 publishers

The two authors are currently working on their new book, “Building Capital: Urban Speculation and the Architec­ture of Finance”.