Philipp Oswalt has been a professor in architectural theory and design at the University of Kassel since 2006. Before he founded his office in Berlin, in 1998, he worked for the Office for Metropolitan Archi- tecture (OMA)/Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam. As visiting professor, he has been teaching design at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität (BTU) Cottbus. He is co-founder of the European project “Urban Catalyst,” an interdisciplinary platform addressing the radical processes of transformation in cities and landscapes; co-initiated the “ZwischenPalastNutzung”; was co-director of “Volkspalast 2004” at Palast der Republik in Berlin; and curated “Shrinking Cities,” an interdisciplinary project at the Kulturstiftung des Bundes. As both author and editor, he has worked for the architectural magazine Arch+ and has published widely on urban planning and architecture.