Material Practice: Sticks and Stones - Bowen Lecture

Frank Barkow was born in Kansas City, USA, in 1957. He received his master‘s degree in architecture from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, in 1990, and a bachelor‘s degree from Montana State Universtiy, Bozeman, USA, in 1982. Since 1993 he has been leading the architectural practice

Barkow Leibinger in Berlin together with Regine

Leibinger. Frank Barkow is a design and research leader

in the practice and committed academic.

He has been teaching continuously at Princeton University, School of Architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, the Architectural Association and the Royal College of Art in London, EPFL École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart, among others. After visiting professorships in 1990-1992 and 2003 at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning in Ithaca, New York, USA, he was again appointed by the college as Gensler Visiting Critic in 2021. In spring 2023, he taught as a visiting professor at Montana State University, School of Architecture in Bozeman.

In 2018, he was a member of the International Jury of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Italy, directed by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara.