2025
"From 'White Coal' to Energy Futures: The Palimpsest of Swiss Energy Landscapes," ISUP Papers, no. 1b, April 2025
Kim Förster, in conversation with Kerstin Müller, Charlotte Bofinger, and Maléna Bastien Masse: "The Reuse of Concrete Elements," Oase Journal, no. 119, 2025, 81-98.
2024
Sascha Roesler, in conversation with Elke Beyer, Kim Förster, and Michaela Russ, "Spatializing the Energy Transition. Toward a Meta-Reflection on the Notion of Energy Landscape," Ardeth, no. 13, 33-53.
Kim Förster, with Tania Tovar Torres and photography by Materia Prima: "The File of Concrete", Journal, Copenhagen Architecture Festival, June 2024.
"A Gray Castle." e-flux Index No. 1, ed. by G. MacBeth, B. Kuan Wood, A. Vidokle, J. Aranda, N. Hirsch, N. Axel, Chr. Moushoul, B. Eastham, P. Langley, F. Wade, J. Halpert, A. Schuster, M. Andrews, March 2024, 244-255.
"A Gray Castle", e-flux Index #1, March 2024.
2023
"A Gray Castle", e-flux Architecture, "Accumulations," December 2023.
"The Kiln" In Solarities. Elemental Encounters and Refractions, ed. by Jeff Diamanti, Cymene Howe, and Amelia Moore (Goleta: punctum books, 2023), 229-258.
"Undisciplined Knowing: Writing Architectural History through the Environment" In Environmental Histories of Architecture, ed. by Kim Förster (Montreal: CCA, 2022).
"A Postmodern School of Architecture. Education at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies" In Histories of Architecture Education in the United States, ed. by Peter L. Laurence (London: Routledge, 2023), 98-117.
2022
"Triangular Stories. Cement as Cheap Commodity, Critical Building Material, and a Seemingly Harmless Climate Killer" / "Dreiecksgeschichten. Zement als billige Ware, kritischer Baustoff und ein scheinbar harmloser Klimakiller," In Beyond Concrete. Strategien für eine postfossile Baukultur, ed. by FHNW – Institut Architektur, Annette Helle, Barbara Lenherr (Zurich: Triest Verlag, 2022), 35-65.
"Reden wir über Zement. Blinde Flecken in der Architektur- und Umweltgeschichte," in: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen 5, 2022: Klimapositiv, 32-36.
2021
"Zement im Anthropozän" In Überbau. Produktionsverhältnisse der Architektur im Anthropozän, edited by Alexander Stumm and Victor Lortie (Berlin: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, 2021), 23-28.
2020
"Energy – Architecture – Transition. Oswald Mathias Ungers, IBUS and the Search for Good Architecture," In Negotiating Ungers. The Aesthetics of Sustainability, edited by common room and Cornelia Escher (Brussels: common books, 2020).
"Wallace K. Harrison: New York Architect (press release)," In Architecture Itself and Other Postmodern Myths, edited by Sylvia Lavin (Montréal: CCA and Leipzig: Spector Books, 2020), 121-124.
2019
"The Green IBA. On a Politics of Renewal, Ecology, and Solidarity," Candide 11, 2019, 9-50.
2018
"Architectural History and the Anthropocene," Field Notes. Architecture and the Environment. Architectural Histories, edited by Sophie Hochhäusl and Torsten Lange 6(1): 20, 2018, 1–13.
"Institutionalizing Postmodernism: Reconceiving the Journal and the Exhibition at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in 1976," In Mediated Messages: Periodicals, Exhibitions, and the Shaping Postmodern Architecture, edited by Véronique Patteeuw and Léa-Catherine Szacka (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), 213-229.
"Umdenken Umschwenken: Environmental Engagement and Swiss Architecture," In Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement, edited by Farhan Karim (Routledge: New York and London, 2018), 271-288.
2017
"Revisiting Görlitzer Park: Material Practices and the Postmodern Landscape," Landscript 5: Material Culture, edited by Jane Hutton Berlin: Jovis, 2017, 154-173 (with Cornelia Escher).
2016
"Into the Archives of Energy Transition," in: Schloss-Ghost, 2016.
"Eco Life Styles Stuttgart," in: Schloss-Post, January 19, 2016.
2015
"The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies," In The Other Architect, edited by Giovanna Borasi Montréal: Canadian Centre for Architecture and Leipzig: Spector Books, 2015), 374-376.
"Wie bauen, wie weiter leben? Frei Ottos Vision vom ökologischen und gemeinsamen Bauen," Bauwelt, 20.2015, May 22, 2015, 28/29 (Issue: "Frei nach Otto")
"Nachruf: Frei Otto. 1925 - 2015", werk, bauen + wohnen, May 2015, 56/57.
2014
"From Remment to Rem. A Quite Literary Story of Someone Who Made It in New York", in:CLOG, June 2014
"'Is there such thing as evil objects?': A Review of Lucius Burckhardt Writings", in: Architectural Histories, April 11, 2014 online: http://journal.eahn.org/article/view/ah.bf
common room & Kim Förster: "A New Framework for an Architecture of Coexistence. Ivan Illich Re-Read", Project. A Journal for Architecture, Issue 3, Spring 2014, 14-17.
2013
"The Mass Production of Art Work. In conversation with Daniel Young and Christian Giroux", in: Daniel Young and Christian Giroux, Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2013.
"Das Paradox der Nachhaltigkeit als Modeerscheinung. Architektur und Natur in Zeiten des Biokapitalismus", Archithese 6, 2013, 72-77.
Kim Förster, with Cornelia Escher: "I am Dr. Tent. Frei Otto on Adaptability, Ecology, and Economy in Architecture", in: ARCH+ 211/212, June 2013, 72-80.
"ARCH+ features 19. Die Netzwerke des Peter Eisenman. Produktion von Wissen und Kultur am Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York (1967 bis 1985)", ARCH+ 210, April 2013.
Kim Förster, with Maria Ibanez De Sendadiano, Lars Fischer and Todd Rouhe: "Building the Abrons Arts Center. Interview with Lo-Yi Chan", in: common room and Kim Förster [eds.]: Arts for Living, New York: common books, 2013, 3-22.
"Teaching Architecture, or, How to Create Spaces for Teenagers", In Arts for Living, edited by common room and Kim Förster (New York: common books, 2013), 63-108.
2012
"Das architektonische Projekt. Bildung und Kultur am Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (NY, 1967-1985)", Archithese 6, 2012, 78-85.
"The Housing Prototype of The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. Negotiating Housing and the Social Responsibility of Architects Within Cultural Production", Candide 5, March 2012, 57-92.
2010
"Skyline", in: Beatriz Colomina / Craig Buckley [eds.]: Clip, Stamp, Fold. The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X, Barcelona: Actar, 2010, p. 156
"Massimo Vignelli: Oppositions, Skyline and the Institute", online: Places. Forum of Design for the Public Realm, Gallery, September 2010
2009
"IAUS: The Thomas Bender Affair", online: CCA study's center, Scholar's Choice, July 2009
"East Village™", in: common room [ed.]: Goethe Circular, March 8, 2009, New York
"Von Absperrgitter bis Zeitmaschine" (editorial), in: Schwellenatlas, Arch+ 191/192, March 2009, p. 23
"Air Curtain", "Fahrsteig", "Ganzkörper-Scanner", "Puffer-Machine", "Sicherheitsschleuse" (glossary texts); "Barrikade", "Tapetentür" (photos), in: Schwellenatlas, Arch+ 191/192, March 2009, pp. 27/28, 45/46, 61/62, 87, 102; 34-37, 116/117
"Schwelle. Elizabeth Diller, Richard Scofidio und Charles Renfro im Gespräch mit Kim Förster und Anh-Linh Ngo", in: Schwellenatlas, ARCH+ 191/192, March 2009, pp. 96-101
2008
"A Communist Cross-Manifesto", in: common room [eds.]: Communist Guide to New York City, New York: common books, 2008, pp. 33-42; 121-30
"Alternative Educational Programs in Architecture: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies", in: Reto Geiser [ed.]: Explorations in Architecture: Teaching, Design, Research, Basel: Birkhäuser, 2008, pp. 26-27
2006
"ABC No Rio: Architecture of Opposition", in: Günter H. Lenz / Dorothea Löbbermann / Karl-Heinz Magister [eds.]: CinematoGraphies: Fictional Strategies and Visual Discourses in 1990s New York City, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2006, pp. 97-120
2005
Kim Förster, with Thomas Bürk-Matsunami, Jonas R. Bylund, Dirk Gebhardt and Mathias Naumann [eds.]: Sozialgeografien des Reichtums in Berlin. Ergebnisse eines Projektseminars, Arbeitsberichte des Geografisches Instituts, Humboldt University in Berlin, issue 110, 2005
An Architektur: "Palastparken", in: Philipp Misselwitz / Philipp Oswalt [eds.]: Fun Palace Berlin 200X, Berlin: Martin Schmitz Verlag, 2005, pp. 180/181*
2004
An Architektur: "R wie Raum", in: Mario Hohmann / Stefan Rettich [eds.]: von A bis Z. 26 Essays zu Grundbegriffen der Architektur, Köln: Walther König, 2004, pp. 110/111*
2003
"Literarische Landschaften: Über die Repräsentation von (urbanen) Räumen in Paul Austers 'The New York Trilogy'", in: Günter H. Lenz / Utz Riese [eds.]: Postmodern New York City. Transfiguring Spaces / Raum-Transformationen, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2003, pp. 247-299 [This text is a short version of the Staatsexamen.]
Kim Förster, with Oliver Clemens, Jesko Fezer and Sabine Horlitz: "Extra-Territorial Spaces and Camps. Judicial and Political Spaces in the War on Terrorism", in: Anselm Franke et al. [eds.]: Territories, Köln: Walther König, 2003, pp. 22-28