• since 2024 academic assistant at the FH Potsdam
• since 2022 Doctoral studies at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Design, Faculty of Design at the UdK Berlin
• 2021-2024 academic assistant in the project P3Dual (DocDual) at the FH Potsdam
• since 2021 freelance work at the Beamten-Wohnungs-Verein zu Berlin (BWV)
• since 2020 academic project coordination at FH Potsdam
• 2018-2020 Master's degree in Architecture and Urban Design at FH Potsdam
• 2015-2018 Bachelor's degree in Architecture at the TU Berlin

Teaching

• summer semester 2025 Leading the seminar "Teatro di Siracusa" with Prof. Dr. Silvia Malcovati
• winter semester 2024/25 Leading the seminar "Schwedt an der Oder. Stadtumbau und Entwicklungsstrategien" with Prof. Dr. Silvia Malocvati
• summer semester 2024 Lecturer in the Erasmus+ KA 131 Blended Intensive Programm "Strategies and projects for Palmanova. Enhancing the historical, architectural and urban heritage."
• Winter semester 2023/24 Leading the Interflex Seminar "Innovationscampus Schwedt" with Prof. Dr. Silvia Malcovati
• Summer semester 2023 Lecturer in the Erasmus+ KA 131 Blended Intensive Programme "Learning from Pompeii (view from the North). The ancient urban form for the future city
• Summer semester 2022 Leading the seminar trip "Das Rote Wien - Architektur und St?dtebau" with Prof. Dr. Silvia Malcovati and Kristin Weber
• Since winter semester 2021/22, head of the elective course series Atlas des Berliner Reformblocks" at the FH Potsdam
• Scientific collaboration on the WinterSchool 2022 in cooperation with ETH-Zurich on the topic of "Metropolitan Landschaften".
• scientific cooperation in the International Spring Academy Ruhr 2021 in cooperation with TU Dortmund, TU Eindhoven and the University degli Studium di Napoli Federico II on the topic "Large settlements ¨C the future of the large settlement ¨C part of the city or external satellite
• Co-supervision of the advanced seminar "Gro?siedlungen ¨C Vier Siedlungen in Berlin" (winter semester 2021/22, FH Potsdam)

Research activity

• PhD project entitled "Erich K?hn und Paul Mebes. Architekten des Beamten-Wohnungs-Vereins zu Berlin eG 1900 ¨C 1923" (since 2022)
• Scientific project coordination of the research project "Block.Reform.Berlin" at the FH Potsdam (since 2020)
• Conception, coordination and moderation of the symposium "Die Wiedergeburt der st?dtischen Architektur. Block Reform 1890-1940. Geschichte und Perspektiven" (23 and 24 September 2021, Berlin)

Doctorate in DocDual on the topic "Erich K?hn und Paul Mebes. Architekten des Beamten-Wohnungsbau-Vereins zu Berlin eG 1900 ¨C 1923"

The constantly growing city and the resulting housing debate was and is a central topic of our time. The ongoing questions of liveable urban spaces, optimised flat layouts, urban clarity and the structuring of public and private space with sustainable planning and cost-effective production without the loss of architecturally valuable designs are more relevant than ever.

The reform endeavours that emerged at the beginning of the 20th century, which did not negate or dissolve the existing city, but aimed to transform it without contradicting its characteristics, are rarely researched but of great importance in this respect. The emergence of the co-operative system at the same time played a central role in this context. In addition to a pure housing reform, i.e. an aesthetic and hygienic architectural dimension, the economic and social reform led to a combination of both topics, which goes hand in hand with the term "housing reform". This is where my dissertation project "Erich K?hn and Paul Mebes. Architekten des Beamten-Wohnungs-Vereins zu Berlin eG 1900 - 1923" with my practice partner, the Beamten-Wohnungs-Verein zu Berlin eG will follow up on.

The focus of my work is on analysing the works of both architects from a historical, conservational and monument preservation perspective, as well as on an interdisciplinary examination and classification in the context of debates at that time and today. The content of the project aims to re-examine and discuss urban reform housing construction in connection with the emergence of the Berlin co-operative system at the beginning of the 20th century and to make it accessible to the public and to architectural and urban planning practice.

My supervisor at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is: Prof. Dr. Silvia Malcovati
My practice partner: Beamten-Wohnungs-Verein zu Berlin eG (BWV)

• Nowak,V. ?Reformarchitektur. Zwischen Forschung, Lehre und Praxis¡°, in: BWV Berlin eG (Hg.), Mein Zuhause. Mitgliederzeitschrift der Beamten-Wohnungs-Verein zu Berlin eG., Heft No. 1, 27. Jahrgang, August 2024.
• Brands, Malcovati ,Nowak ?A Roman 'promenade architecturale'¡°,in: Coppolino, Di Chiara, Visconti (Hg.), BIP Pompeii. Architecture for Archaeology. Projects for the South boundary between ancient and contemporary city, Januar 2024.
• Brands, Malcovati, Nowak, "Learning from Architecture", in: Visconti, F. (Hg), Houses and Analogy. Learning from Pompeii (view from the north), Juli 2023.
• Nowak, V., "Erich K?hn und Paul Mebes. Den Hausarchitekten auf der Spur", Beitrag in BWV Berlin eG (Hg.), Mein Zuhause. Mitgliederzeitschrift der Beamten-Wohnungs-Verein e.G., Heft No. 2, 23. Jahrgang, November 2021.