Stefan Sauter
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Curriculum vitae
I hold a Master of Architecture II from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and a Licentiate from Universidad Véritas, Costa Rica. From 2018 to 2025, I worked at Barkow Leibinger in Berlin, contributing to projects including Rice University’s New Hanszen College dormitory, and competition proposals such as the MIT Met renovation, and the 1014 Space for Ideas in New York, as well as curatorial work for Schaufenster, Barkow Leibingers exhibition space.
I have taught design studios with Regine Leibinger at the Harvard GSD—Revisiting Mies: Haus Lemke (2022), Revisting Utopia: Bio-Based Megastructures in Texas (2023), and Revisiting the Existing: Resources from Sites of Speculation (2024). My broader experience includes contributions to OMA/AMO’s Countryside, The Future (2020) at the Guggenheim, the CCA’s Archaeology of the Digital (2016), MIT ACT’s In Our Present Condition (2018), and the Strelka Institute’s The Terraforming (2022). I also advise Samara Smart Farm, a project redirecting coastal urbanization in Costa Rica through design prototypes.
I have taught design studios with Regine Leibinger at the Harvard GSD—Revisiting Mies: Haus Lemke (2022), Revisting Utopia: Bio-Based Megastructures in Texas (2023), and Revisiting the Existing: Resources from Sites of Speculation (2024). My broader experience includes contributions to OMA/AMO’s Countryside, The Future (2020) at the Guggenheim, the CCA’s Archaeology of the Digital (2016), MIT ACT’s In Our Present Condition (2018), and the Strelka Institute’s The Terraforming (2022). I also advise Samara Smart Farm, a project redirecting coastal urbanization in Costa Rica through design prototypes.
Education
Licenciate of Architecture
|2009 – 2015 Universidad Véritas
MArch II Architecture
|2016 – 2018 Harvard University
Teaching & PhD
HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN (GSD)
Instructor for Regine Leibinger | September 2022 – October 2022 | Cambridge, MA
Module Option Studio “Revisiting Mies: An extension to Haus Lemke in Berlin”
Guest Speakers: Wita Noack, Anna Ramos, Kiel Moe, Beatriz Colomina, Phillip Misselwitz
https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/course/revisiting-mies-an-extension-to-haus-lemke-in-berlin-m1-fall-2022/
Module Option Studio “Revisiting Mies: An extension to Haus Lemke in Berlin”
Guest Speakers: Wita Noack, Anna Ramos, Kiel Moe, Beatriz Colomina, Phillip Misselwitz
https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/course/revisiting-mies-an-extension-to-haus-lemke-in-berlin-m1-fall-2022/
HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN (GSD)
Instructor for Regine Leibinger & Karen Stein | October 2023 – December 2023 | Cambridge, MA
Module Option Studio “Revisiting Utopia: Bio-Based Megastructures in the Texas Desert” Guest Speakers: Chris Taylor, Craig Buckley, Ludwig Engel, Lisa Le Feuvre, Mae-Ling Lokko, Philip Ursprung, Martin Bechthold
https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/course/revisiting-utopia-bio-based-megastructures-in-the-texas-desert-m2-fall-2023/
Module Option Studio “Revisiting Utopia: Bio-Based Megastructures in the Texas Desert” Guest Speakers: Chris Taylor, Craig Buckley, Ludwig Engel, Lisa Le Feuvre, Mae-Ling Lokko, Philip Ursprung, Martin Bechthold
https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/course/revisiting-utopia-bio-based-megastructures-in-the-texas-desert-m2-fall-2023/
HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN (GSD)
Instructor for Regine Leibinger | September 2023 – December 2023 | Cambridge, MA
Option Studio “Revisiting the Existing: Resources from Sites of Speculation”. Guest Lecturers: Chrissie Muhr, Søren Pihlmann, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Freek Persyn, Francisco Cifuentes, Friedericke Kluge, Marija Maric, Ludwig Engel, Norihisa Kawashima
https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/course/revisiting-the-existing-resources-from-sites-of-speculation-fall-2024/
Option Studio “Revisiting the Existing: Resources from Sites of Speculation”. Guest Lecturers: Chrissie Muhr, Søren Pihlmann, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Freek Persyn, Francisco Cifuentes, Friedericke Kluge, Marija Maric, Ludwig Engel, Norihisa Kawashima
https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/course/revisiting-the-existing-resources-from-sites-of-speculation-fall-2024/