Joachim Krausse, historian of architecture and design, is a retired professor of design theory at Anhalt University of Applied Science in Dessau, associate investigator of the Cluster of Excellence »Bild, Wissen, Gestaltung« at Humboldt-University Berlin, and since 1991 permanent collaborator of the architectural magazine ARCH+. He directed film documentaries on the history of housing and dwelling, curated exhibitions, and published widely on the work of Buckminster Fuller, e.g. Your Private Sky, R. Buckminster Fuller, 2 vols. 1999, 2001, republished 2017. He is now teaching at the MSc Program COOP Design Research at the Bauhaus Dessau.