Tim Altenhof
Architect, historian, and author of Breathing Space: The Architecture of Pneumatic Beings (Zone Books, 2026), and senior scientist in architectural theory at the University of Innsbruck with research on bodies, breathing, and architecture.
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Apr 5, 2026 • 1h 1min
Tim Altenhof, "Breathing Space: The Architecture of Pneumatic Beings" (Zone Books, 2026)
Tim Altenhof, architect, historian, and author of Breathing Space, explores how breathing shapes bodies and buildings. He traces 19th-century air debates, ventilation in factories and hospitals, modernists’ lung metaphors, sanatoria design, and breath training at the Bauhaus. The conversation maps a cultural history of pneumatic awareness and architectural responses to air, disease, and porosity.
