Ross Anderson

Ross Anderson joined the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney in July 2007 as a Lecturer in Architectural Design, History & Theory. Anderson is completing his doctoral dissertation From the Bauhütte to the Bauhaus: The medieval masons’ lodge as an aesthetic and cultural paradigm from German Romanticism to Early Modernism at the University of Cambridge. In addition to his scholarly work in architectural history and theory, Anderson has a background in architectural practice and has worked in the Berlin offices of Daniel Libeskind (most notably on the ‘Memory Foundations’ design study that was selected as the master site plan for the rebuilding of the former World Trade Center site) and Zvi Hecker. He is currently preparing an architectural monograph on Hecker’s work. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture (First Class Honours) from the University of Canberra and a Masters of Philosophy in History and Philosophy of Architecture from the University of Cambridge.