Tim Altenhof is a Berlin-based architect, teacher, and author, currently serving as a senior scientist in architectural theory at the University of Innsbruck. He received his B.Arch. and M.Arch. from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and later earned an M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Yale University, where his dissertation was awarded the Theron Rockwell Field Prize in 2018. An excerpt of this work also won the Bruno Zevi Prize 2018. He is the author of Breathing Space: The Architecture of Pneumatic Beings (New York: Zone Books, 2026). His writings have appeared, amongst others, in Log, 21:Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Ra. Revista de Arquitectura.
Breathing Space:
The Architecture of Pneumatic Beings
(New York: Zone Books, 2026)
distributed by Princeton University Press
An illuminating account of how new knowledge about human respiration impacted architectural design in the early twentieth century
Out of the Ordinary: A Day with Peter Haimerl
Log, no. 61 (Summer 2024): 63-73.
"Tim Altenhof rides along with architect Peter Haimerl to see his unique housing and restoration work."
Inhabiting the Atmosphere: The Architecture of the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 82, no. 3 (September 2023):
313–33.
Mendelsohn's Rudderless Ship
Ra. Revista de Arquitectura, no. 25, "The Life of a Building" (2023): 92–103
The Aesthetics of Blurred Boundaries: From Wölfflin's Baroque to Giedion's Interpenetration
21 Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, no. 04 2022 (December 2022):
817–61.
Form Follows Facade
Log, no. 55 (Summer 2022): 31–37.
"In Berlin, Tim Altenhof critiques the newly rebuilt Humboldt Forum."
Was Cäsar sah
Süddeutsche Zeitung, (January 8, 2020): 11
"Bauen mit Holz wird wieder beliebter. Der Stoff besitzt mehrere Vorteile: Er sorgt für ein gutes Raumklima, ist nachhaltig und leicht verbaubar. Doch an diesem Trend findet nicht jeder Gefallen."
