Markus Grob (1952–2021) traveled to Afghanistan in 1972/73, began studying Islamic Studies (which he did not complete), and traveled to Egypt in 1976/77. Starting in 1978, he studied architecture in Zurich; in 1984, he received his diploma from ETH and began his first practice with the renovation of Haus S. in Zug. From 1988 onward, he worked in Vienna as an architect in Adolf Krischanitz’s studio. In 1996, he was at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, after which he was appointed to the professorship of architecture at the  HFG Karlsruhe and collaborated with an architectural firm in Zurich. Since 1999, he created stage installations for the performance group "Die Bairishe Geisha" in Munich; in 2001, he completed a residential renovation in Barcelona; in 2004, he curated the exhibition “Kannitverstan” at the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe; and in 2008, he oversaw the renovation of a townhouse in Hamburg-St. Pauli. In 2012/13, he gave a winter lecture at the Weißensee Academy of Art on the relationship between architecture, urban space, and politics in the periods 1789 ff., 1918 ff., and 1948 ff. Publications: “Tun der Architektur,” Grundzüge der Architekturtheorie, Edition Solitude 1996; “Gründe, dass es eine Stadt nicht mehr geben kann,” on the problem of post-feudal urban planning, Raketenstation Hombroich 2004.