Ludo Groen

Ludo Groen is a doctoral candidate and research/teaching assistant at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder at ETH Zurich’s Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta). His research interests include the decentering of authorship in architectural history by shedding light on its other authors and archives. As part of the SNSF-research project Switzerland. A Technological Pastoral, his doctoral research describes the secretive characters, spaces, and landscapes behind the extraction, trading, and vaulting of gold in and outside Switzerland. 

Ludo previously worked at The Berlage at Delft University of Technology, contributing to the organisation of public programs and coursework, and the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, where he co-curated the exhibition MVRDVHNI The Living Archive of a Studio, on experiments to navigate, search, and exhibit the born-digital archive of MVRDV. At the institute’s research department, he co-edited the book Automated Landscapes, documenting the authorship and architectures of data centres, dairy farms, and greenhouses across the Netherlands. His writings are published by OASE, Strelka Mag, Failed Architecture, Cosa Mentale, Kunst + Architektur in der Schweiz, and gta Verlag.