Julia Schulz-Dornburg

Julia Schulz-Dornburg, an architect, researcher and photographer, graduated from the Architectural Association of London and, after establishing her architectural studio in Barcelona in 1993, works mainly in the domains of museography projects, exhibitions, housing, and ephemeral installations. Among the exhibitions she has curated and designed are “Modern Ruins Berlin. A Topography of Profit” in the Aedes Architektur Forum gallery, Berlin, “Dressing the Body” in the Design Museum of Barcelona (DHUB), and “Franco, Victory, the Republic: Impunity and Urban Space” in the Born Centre for Culture and Memory (CCM), Barcelona. In the course of her career, she has received awards including the City of Barcelona Prize, the Maresme Architecture Triennale Prize, and the FAD (Fostering Arts and Design) Ephemeral Spaces Award. She became known as an investigator mainly as a result of her book Modern Ruins: A Topography of Profit (2013 – in Spanish, Ruinas modernas, una topografía de lucro (Àmbit, 2012), in which she explores the destruction of landscape by abusive urbanisation. In her most recent publication, The Complete Guide to Combat City (Jovis Verlag, 2024), an analytical compilation of this phenomenon, she investigates combat cities which, created for military training, do not exist on maps.