Florian Hertweck is an architect and head of the master’s programme in Architecture at the University of Luxembourg. From 2009 to 2016, he was Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles, and from 2013 to 2015, he was a visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. He studied architecture and art history in Paris and Newcastle. He has been a partner at Less Yellow Architecture Urbanism since 2024.
Professor Hertweck’s teaching and research focus on the socio-ecological transformation of urban and suburban areas. From 2020 to 2022, he led a consortium of more than 50 planners and researchers as part of the international research programme Luxembourg in Transition. Spatial visions for the low carbon and sustainable future of the Luxembourg functional region. From 2018 to 2020, he collaborated with Prof. Milica Topalovic from ETH Zurich and their teams to develop a sustainable spatial model for the metropolitan region of Geneva as part of the Consultation du Grand Genève.
Since 2018, he has been a member of the Conseil Supérieur de l’Aménagement du Territoire (CSAT), which advises the Luxembourg Minister for Spatial Planning. Since 2023, he has been a member of the scientific board at the Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility (IKEM). With his team at the University of Luxembourg, he has prepared various architectural and urban feasibility studies for the Luxembourg government.
In 2018, he curated the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale on the question of land. More recently he co-curated the exhibition The Great Repair, which has been shown at the Akademie der Künste Berlin and at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris. Hertweck is the editor of numerous publications on the socio-ecological production of space, most recently The Great Repair. Politiken der Reparaturgesellschaft (ARCH+, no. 250) and Architektur auf gemeinsamem Boden. Positions and Models on the Land Question (Lars Müller Publishers 2020).
