Historical influence of the pandemic on urban development_Cities and epidemics

Britta Hentschel studied art history, philosophy and church history in Munich, Rome and Bonn and completed her doctorate at ETH Zurich in 2009 with a thesis on the architect and urban planner Gaetano Koch (1849-1910), which was awarded the Theodor Fischer Prize of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich.

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Britta Hentschel was a fellow of the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome, the international ETH graduate programme "Stadtformen. Conditions and Consequences" as well as a scientific member of the Istituto Svizzero in Rome and a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge/Massachusetts, USA. In addition to various teaching assignments, she held the Martin Graßnick Visiting Professorship for Architectural History at the TU Kaiserslautern in 2016/17. Since 2017, Britta Hentschel has been teaching the history of architecture, art and urban planning at the University of Liechtenstein and is active in Swiss heritage conservation.

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As part of her habilitation project, she is focussing on the architectural history of poverty, illness and welfare.