Lecture Tim Rieniets

since 2018
Professor of Urban and Spatial Development in a Diversified Society, Leibniz Universität Hannover

2013 - 2018
Managing Director of the state initiative StadtBauKultur NRW

2012
Visiting Professor of Urban Planning at the Chair of Sustainable Development in Urban and Rural Areas, Technical University of Munich

2011
Lecturer for Design and Strategy in Urban Space at the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design (Prof. Kees Christiaanse), ETH Zurich

2009
Senior Assistant at the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design (Prof. Kees Christiaanse), ETH Zurich

2003 - 2009
Assistant at the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design (Prof. Kees Christiaanse), ETH Zurich

2002 - 2004
Research assistant in the project Shrinking Cities, Büro Philipp Oswalt

2002
Employed architect, ASTOC Architects and Planners

2002
Freelancer, Urban Catalyst

1995 - 2001
Studied architecture, TU Braunschweig, TU Delft, TU Berlin

1994
Studied art science and media theory, HfG Karlsruhe

Future Church Spaces
A campaign to help people repurpose/convert vacant churches
www.zukunft-kirchen-raeume.de(Opens in a new tab) 

Big Beautiful Buildings
A campaign that championed post-war architecture in the Ruhr region
www.zukunft-kirchen-raeume.de(Opens in a new tab) 

Heimatwerker
A pilot project to integrate refugees into the building trade.
Refugees worked under professional supervision on the renovation and conversion of a vacant building.

Conversion culture - for an architecture of change.
This book has now been published in its second, revised edition.