Andrea is involved in research, teaching and cooperational work at AMS Institute. She works on the establishment of the international cooperation with Vienna and focusses on the interface work to strengthen innovative knowledge exchange in research and education between AMS Institute, TU Deft and other institutions in Vienna.
Andrea’s research interest engages with the question of sustainable urban growth in metropolitan areas. In her postgraduate master thesis, conducted during her EMU studies at TU Delft, she focused on the interplay between patterns of urban growth, impact of planning instruments on the urban form and the potential of design-based research for the improvement of sustainability in regional strategic planning. She focused on the case region Vienna-Bratislava.
Recent work
Together with colleagues from TU Delft and AMS Institute, Andrea worked on an EU H2020 research proposal on the topic of procedural and distributive aspects of spatial justice and related policy upscaling. The proposals encounter strong emphasis on the AMS Urban Living Lab methodology for better achievement of inclusive and sustainable urban development.
During spring semester 2019, Andrea taught and coordinated the MSC MADE international study visit 2019. In this course fifty international students worked on spatial challenges in metropolitan context and developed urban-design oriented scenarios for an urban transformation zone along a rail corridor between Vienna and Bratislava.
Bio
Andrea Überbacher is researcher at the TU Delft/Urbanism and at AMS Institute/Amsterdam Advanced Metropolitan Solutions and university assistant in research at Centre of Urban Design/Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning at TU Vienna; her work is dedicated to research and teaching with focus on the sustainable development of metropolitan regions; development and coordination of research cooperation’s and projects between institutions in the Netherlands and Vienna; she studied urbanism (EMU – European Postgraduate Master in Urbanism, strategies for cities and territories) at TU Delft (NL) and at IUAV (IT) and architecture at TU Graz and TU Vienna, and graduated from both studies with cum laude. Andrea has several years of earlier professional working experience in the operative field in architecture, urban design and urban planning. First working on urban design and architecture projects, she then worked for a consultancy concerned with matters of sustainable urban development in Vienna. In this position, Andrea worked on urban studies, project and process management, predominantly for clients of the public sector.