Bernadette Krejs

Bernadette Krejs (PHD) is an architect and Senior Scientist at the Research Unit of Housing and Desing at TU Wien. Her work is situated in a transdisciplinary research field between architecture, housing and visual culture. Her awarded dissertation (Instragram-Wohnen (transcript, 2023)) focuses on the media representation of housing through digital platforms and a counter-hegemonic image production in the field of architecture. She has extensive international teaching experience (DAE Design Academy Eindhoven) and is co-founder of the international PHD Program on New Social Housing. She is editor and author of numerous books, Changing Spatial Practices (transcript, 2025), Soziales Wohnen in Wien (TU Academic Press/awarded with the Bruno Kreisky Price for the Political Book 2025), Vienna: The End of Housing (as a Typology) (Spektor Books, 2024). Her work has been published in various exhibitions, PLATFORM AUSTRIA (La Biennale di Venezia 2021). She is Margarete Schütte Lihotzky Project Fellow (2024) and LINA – European Architecture Platform Fellow (2023). She is co-founder of the queer feminist collective Claiming*Spaces and co-founder of the activist research practice Palace of Un/Learning where she collaborated with various institutions, including Fundació Mies van der Rohe Barcelona, Oslo Architecture Triennale, DAZ – Deutsches Architektur Zentrum Berlin and many more.