Wood Structures from Detail to Utopia
Anja Jonkhans
Sen.Art. Dipl.arch. MArch.
Anja Jonkhans is an architect and researcher. In addition to her role as a faculty member in the Department of Building Construction at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, she frequently assumes the position of an international guest critic and scientific reviewer. Her teaching and research subjects are facade construction and drafting techniques. From 2019 to 2025, she occupied the position of Head of the Senate of the University of Applied Arts.
She was employed by Alsop Architects and Grimshaw Architects in London, and she was a founding partner of Spacelab/UK with Peter Cook and Colin Fournier for the Kunsthaus Graz museum.
She received her Diploma and Masters degree in architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), London, where she was awarded scholarships from Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Sir Henry Herbert Bartlett-Scholarship and Regierungsrat Paul Meyer-Stiftung.
Angewandte Profile
Research Projects
Conceptual Joining
Articles
November 22, 2021
Innochain: External Perspectives
Jonkhans, Anja, Burry, Mark, Gengnagel, Christoph. “Innochain: External Perspectives.” In Design Transactions – Rethinking Information Modeling for a New Material Age edited by Sean Hanna, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Bob Sheil and Martin Tamke. UCL Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-78735-489-0
November 22, 2021
Digital Design in Research and Practice
Jonkhans, Anja. “Digital Design in Research and Practice.” In Conceptual Joining – Wood Structures from Detail to Utopia edited by Lukas Allner, Christoph Kaltenbrunner, Daniela Kröhnert and Philipp Reinsberg. Institute of Architecture, and Institute of Art Sciences and Art Education at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Edition Angewandte, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2022, ISBN 978-3-0356-2435-9
November 3, 2014
On Stage
Jonkhans, Anja, Jonkhans, Niels. “On Stage.” In Weil Kunst entsteht – Wirk(stätt)en in Niederösterreich edited by Land Niederösterreich. Residenz-Verlag St. Pölten, 2014, ISBN 9783701733491