Dr Maximillian Sternberg

Maximilian Sternberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture where he also serves as Deputy Head of Department (Teaching). Max Sternberg is part of the history and theory of architecture team. His current work focuses on twentieth century European architectural history. He has published on German, French and Nordic architecture. He is currently working on a monograph on the German architect Hans Döllgast (1891-1974). Sternberg is also interested in appropriations of the past in modern architecture, and specifically images of the Middle Ages in modernism. Related to this, he is studying how modern architecture imagines the sacred. Earlier research has focused on the social meanings of architecture in the Middle Ages, and the interplay of religious reform, monastic architecture, and the urban environment. As a research partner of the project ‘Conflict in Cities (2007-2013) Sternberg’s research covered Israel-Palestine, North Africa, and the borderlands of the EU, including Polish-German border towns and Ceuta. Here he has investigated how urban change, politics and heritage practices interact.

Sternberg is author of Cistercian Architecture and Medieval Society (Brill, 2013) and co-author of The Struggle For Jerusalem’s Holy Places (Routledge, 2013), as well as co-editor of Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture (Ashgate, 2015) of Modern Architecture and the Sacred (Bloomsbury, 2020).