Thomas E. Hauck
Dr.-Ing.
Head of Researchunit
Thomas E. Hauck is a landscape architect with a diverse academic and professional background. He pursued his studies at the University of Hannover and the Edinburgh College of Art. He earned his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Munich with a dissertation on "Landscape and Design – The Objectification of Aesthetic Ideas Using the Example of Landscape."
Throughout his academic career, Thomas E. Hauck taught and conducted research at the Chair of Landscape Architecture and Public Space at the Technical University of Munich and the Department of Open Space Planning at the University of Kassel. He is a partner at "Polinna Hauck Landscape+Urbanism" and serves as the Managing Director at "Studio Animal-Aided Design."
Since 2021, he, along with Susann Ahn, co-directs the Chair for Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning at the Institute for Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Design at TU Wien. His research and design focus on exploring urban natures that allow and stimulate self-dynamic processes. He is also involved in developing urban and open space planning concepts for cohabitation from a "Multispecies" perspective.
- Current courses
- Research projects
- Publications
- CoCreation (2024)
- There is a place for every animal, but not in my back yard: a survey on attitudes towards urban animals and where people want them to live (2024)
- Creating ecologically sound buildings by integrating ecology, architecture and computational design (2023)
- Landscapes without landscape architects. (2023)
- The Relationship between Knowing and Liking for 91 Urban Animal Species among Students (2023)
- Podcast: A Palaver im Gespräch mit Susann Ahn und Thomas Hauck (2023)
- Ecolopes, beyond greening. A multi-species approach for urban design (2022)
- Best of Böse Beuge (2022)
- Wildlife in the wrong place? (2022)
- Animal-Aided Design (2021)
- Animal-Aided Design in the living environment (2021)
- Designing wildlife-inclusive cities that support human-animal co-existence (2020)
- Wild Urbanites (2020)
- A Conceptual Framework for Choosing Target Species for Wildlife-Inclusive Urban Design (2019)
- Wildtiere im Wohnumfeld (2019)
- Appropriation of Urban Open Spaces (2017)
- Urban Animal Spaces (2017)
- AAD - Animal Aided Design (2016)
- Revising Green Infrastructure (2015)
- Landscape and Design (2014)
- Stadt und Spiele (2013)
- City and Games (2013)
- Infrastructural Urbanism (2011)