Rebekka Hirschberg (*1990) is an architect and housing researcher based in Vienna and Ghent. She studied architecture at TU Graz, ENSAP Lille, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and holds a MAS in History and Theory of Architecture from ETH Zurich. In 2018, she co-founded wohnlabor (www.wohnlabor.at), an independent research collective exploring and contributing to the discourse on housing, policies, and urban development in Austria.

Rebekka has worked in architecture offices in Graz and Zurich and as a research assistant at the University of Hong Kong and ETH Zurich. Between 2020 and 2024, she was part of the research project Cooperative Conditions: A Primer on Architecture, Finance, and Regulation in Zurich on cooperative housing in Zurich, initiated at ETH Zurich by Anne Kockelkorn and Susanne Schindler. The project was presented at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale and published in 2024 by gta Verlag.
Since 2023, Rebekka has been a PhD candidate in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Ghent University, working with Anne Kockelkorn. Her research focuses on the intersections of architecture, cooperative housing, models of financing, and urban planning.

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