Dr Phillip Lühl

Biography

Phillip holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Westminster, UK and a Master’s of Science in Architecture with distinction from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He joined the Department of Architecture and Spatial Planning in 2011 as a lecturer. Since 2020 he heads the Department.

Professional Affiliation

• MNCAQS (No 579)
• MNIA (No 358)

Research Focus Areas

• Assessment of underutilized public land for infill housing opportunities in Windhoek (PI)
• Incremental Adequate Housing – a Prototype for Urban Innovation in Windhoek
• Participatory design and planning
• Urban informal economies
• Housing

Courses Currently Teaching
Undergraduate

• Architectural Design
• History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism
• Housing and Everyday Life
• Construction Materials and Technology

Postgraduate

• African Urbanization in Global Perspective
• Honours Design Project 1
• Master Design Thesis
• Critical Urban Theory

Community Development Activities

• Herero Mall informal market development
• Revision of Mass Housing Development Program (project leader)

Selected Publications

Books

• Delgado, G, Lühl, P., eds (2020) Namibia's Urban Future: Rethinking housing and urbanisation. Windhoek, Namibia University of Science and Technology.
• Lühl, P. (2017). Making Architecture: Namibia University of Science and Technology 2016 first year architecture student projects for a space of learning in Ombaka, Kaoko Region, Namibia. Windhoek, Namibia University of Science and Technology.

Book Chapters

• Lühl, P., Delgado, G. (2016). A critical analysis of the Mass Housing Programme. In Bankie, B. F., Jauch, H. (Ed.) The Urban Housing Crisis in Namibia: A Youth Perspective (pp. 208-220). Windhoek: National Youth Council of Namibia
• MSc Graduation design project published in: Kaminer, T., Robles-Duran, M., Sohn, H., & Boyer, M. C. (2010). Urban asymmetries: studies and projects on neoliberal urbanization. Rotterdam, 010 Publishers.

PhD Thesis

• Lühl, P. (2020). Decolonising the Informal: Discourse, Everyday Life, and the Politics of Urbanisation in Windhoek, Namibia. London, University of Westminster

Peer-reviewed articles

• Lühl, P. (2018). Towards a new architecture school - positioning Namibia's first school of architecture theoretically within its post-colonial context. In Supplement to the Journal of the South African Institute of Architects, Vol 90, 2018, 33-41

• Delgado, G., Lühl, P. (2014). Financialisation and the Production of Inequality in Namibia: A Socio-Spatial Perspective. Jounal für Entwicklungspolitik (JEP) – 29 (4) 2013, 46-66

Non peer-reviewed articles

• Lühl, P., van Greunen, S., Botha, J. (2017). Windhoek Retro-fit: Re-connecting the Fragmented City. Digest of Namibia Architecture 2017, 92-95
• Lühl, P. (2017). Re-thinking Housing and Urbanization: Namibia’s Urban Forum 2017. Digest of Namibia Architecture 2017, 29-31
• Lühl, P. (2014). Die Stadt hält uns gefangen. Über die Notwendigkeit einer Urbanen Revolution. Perspektiven 2014, 105-110
• Lühl, P. (2013). The Production of Inequality: From Colonial Planning to Neoliberal Urbanization in Windhoek. Digest of Namibia Architecture 2012, 10, 26-30
• Lühl, P., Delgado, G. (2013). Mass Housing in Namibia - A Chance to transcend the socio-spatial geography of Apartheid. Digest of Namibia Architecture 2013, 11, 16-19