Anna Baltschun is a Berlin-based architect and urban researcher. She graduated from Architecture School at RWTH (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule) Aachen, Germany, in 2003. Between 2003 and 2006 she worked in international offices in New York and at OMA/AMO in Rotterdam, before training as an urban researcher at the Bauhaus Kolleg and continuing work as a curator at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (2006–08). Since 2009, she has been employed as an assistant professor and since 2010 has been a PhD candidate at the School of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture (ASL) at Kassel University, Germany. In 2011–12, she held a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship for doctoral research and visited archives at MoMA New York, the Buckminster Fuller Archive at Stanford University, the Archigram Archives at Westminster University in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Her doctoral thesis, “Well-tempered New York: visionary architecture in the environmental decade” is in progress, and concerns the question of how technology, human needs, and environmental concerns could integrate into architecture and urban planning to achieve a greater equilibrium with the Earth’s spheres. Her analysis focuses on the experimental design proposals of the 1960s for the island of Manhattan.