Curriculum Vitae

Ludo Groen is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Chair of Laurent Stalder at ETH Zurich’s Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta). His research interests include the decentering of authorship in architectural history by shedding light on its other authors and archives. In 2024, he defended his doctorate, which documented the secretive characters, spaces, and landscapes behind the extraction, trading, and vaulting of gold in and outside Switzerland. 

Ludo previously worked at The Berlage at Delft University of Technology, contributing to the organisation of public programs and coursework, and the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, where he co-curated the exhibition MVRDVHNI The Living Archive of a Studio, on experiments to navigate, search, and exhibit the born-digital archive of MVRDV. At the institute’s research department, he co-edited the book Automated Landscapes, documenting the authorship and architectures of data centres, dairy farms, and greenhouses across the Netherlands. His writings are published by the Journal of Contemporary History, OASE Journal for Architecture, Strelka Mag, Failed Architecture, Kunst + Architektur in der Schweiz, and gta Verlag.

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Publications

"Investigating Subterranean Swiss Banking with Open-Source Intelligence Tools," in Researching Otherwise (ed. Nitin Bathla), Zurich: gta Verlag, 2024.

"Where to Find a Drawing of a Swiss Gold Vault," Drawing Matter, 2024. 

"Das Hotel, das die Credit Suisse rettete," Kunst + Architektur in der Schweiz 74(3), 2023, 4–11.

Automated Landscapes (eds. Merve Bedir, Ludo Groen, Marten Kuijpers, Victor Munoz Sanz, Marina Otero Verzier), Rotterdam: Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2023.

"Inflate a Building’s Value by €120 Million with This One Simple Formula," Failed Architecture, with Marten Kuijpers, 2021.

"Automated Landscapes and the Human Dream of Relentlessness," Strelka Mag, with Marten Kuijpers, 2020. 

"Up-time: Reporting from Automated Landscapes," with Marten Kuijpers, in I See That I See That You Don’t See (eds. Marina Otero Verzier and Francien van Westrenen), Rotterdam: Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2020. 

"Haussmann and the House of Fashion," in OASE Journal for Architecture, 2019.