Markus Breitschmid
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Education
Ph.D., Technical University of Berlin
M.Arch., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
B.Sc.Arch., Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Lieutenant, Military Academy - Federal Swiss Department of Armed Forces
Markus Breitschmid is the T.A. Carter Professor of Architecture and the Inaugural Jacob A. Lutz III Endowed Scholar. Breitschmid’s international impact in the discipline of architecture stems from a series of books and other writings in such journals as a+u, Casabella, Domus, and El Croquis. His writings have been translated into multiple languages. He has been invited to lecture in 18 countries on four continents. Breitschmid’s work has been exhibited and presented at such venues as the Biennale Architettura di Venezia in Venice, the Galerie d’Architecture in Paris, the Architecture Biennale of Chicago, the Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa in Lisbon, the Bund Deutscher Architekten Galerie in Berlin, and the Royal Institute of British Architects in London.
Architecture
ARCH 2015/2016: Architecture II
ARCH 4114: Ideas, Concepts, and Representations of Architecture
ARCH 4514: Thesis Inquiry
ARCH 4515/4516: Architecture V
ARCH 4523: Thesis Documentation
Breitschmid has taught at Virginia Tech since 2004. He held a visiting professorship for architectural theory at Peru’s Universidad de Piura from 2020 to 2022. In 2016, Breitschmid was appointed to the diploma commission of the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio-Switzerland. Breitschmid had teaching appointments at Cornell University, the University of North Carolina, the Catholic University of America, and the University of Louisiana. He has served as a faculty councilor at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) from 2009 to 2021, as a program chair of Virginia Tech’s architecture program from 2011 to 2014, and as a representative on the National Architectural Accreditation Board (NAAB) since 2012. Breitschmid operates Markus Breitschmid Architecture LLC.