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Leonard Wertgen, Architect
2022-2023 Teaching Independent Studio, Helten/Wertgen, RWTH Aachen
since 2022 Teaching and Research Assistant, Housing and Design, RWTH Aachen
2020-2021 Lecturer, Hochschule München
2019-2020 Teaching and Research Assistant, Building Typologies, TU Berlin
since 2018 Registered Architect in Berlin
2015-2017 EM2N Architekten, Zürich
2014 Eifelkollektiv
2013 Teaching and Research Assistant, Visual Arts, RWTH Aachen
since 2012 Film Based Research
2009-2011 BeL, Köln
2006-2012 Architecture Studies RWTH Aachen, M.Sc.
Publications
Kleine Häuser, Große Fragen, Ecological Pedagogies, OASE, (122), mit M. Helten, 2025
Architecture Reading Aid Ahmedabad, mit N. Fanelsa, M. Helten, B. Martenson, Ruby Press, Berlin, 2015
Logistikindustrie und Architektur. Magazin ARCH+ 205, Service Architekturen, S. 92-97, mit S. Kampmann, 2011
Guest critic & Input Lectures
Photography department of the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design (HfG), 2025
Studio Kempe Thill, Leibniz University Hannover, 2023
Habitat Unit / FG Hehl, TU Berlin, 2022
Grants & Prizes
Scholarship Initial, Akademie der Künste Berlin, 2021
Shortlist, Transfer Arch Video Award, 2021
Crossing Borders grant, Robert-Bosch-Foundation & Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, 2019
3rd Prize, Competition XS Neue Ferienhäuser, Thüringen, 2018
Architect-in-Residence, Goethe-Institut Netherlands, Rotterdam, 2018
Award, Most beautiful books, Stiftung Buchkunst, 2016
Shortlist, Architectural Book Award, German architecture museum und Frankfurt bookfair, 2016
Grant for exhibition for German artist abroad (ifa), Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India, 2016
Grant of Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bahvan, Mumbai, 2016
2nd Prize, Euregional Prize for Architecture, 2013
Nomination Friedrich-Wilhelm-Prize, RWTH Aachen, 2013
Scholarship RWTH Education Fund, 2010-2012
Traveling Scholarship Helmut-Hentrich-Foundation, 2009
Exhibitions
Doshi Doshi Doshi, with Annette Kisling, Jens Franke, Studio im Hochhaus, Berlin Lichtenberg, 2021
Together, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg,Co-Kuration und Ausstellungsgestaltung, 2020
Contemporary Opportunities, Alte Münze, Berlin, 2019
Architectural Ethnography, Biennale Venice, Japanese Pavillon, Curator: Momoyo Kaijima, Laurent Stalder, Yu Iseki, 2018
Architecture Reading Aid: National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, 2016
Architecture Reading Aid: Studio X Mumbai, Columbia GSAPP, 2016
Ausstellung Beyond Economic Constraints,
mit Jens Franke, Marius Helten, Niklas Fanelsa,
Kunstverein Hamburg Harburg, 2016