Hubert Klumpner (*1975 in Salzburg) graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna under Professor Hans Hollein. In 1995, he received a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University in New York. In 2001, Klumpner co-founded the Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) NGO in Caracas, Venezuela, together with Alfredo Brillembourg. From 2007, he taught as a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning and Preservation at Columbia University / NY, where he, together with Alfredo Brillembourg, founded the "Sustainable Living Urban Model Laboratory (S.L.U.M. Lab) ". Since 2010, Klumpner has been Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Department of Architecture of ETH Zurich.
