Regina Stephan, Dr. phil. habil., is Professor of the History of Architecture and Urban Planning at Mainz University of Applied Sciences. She specializes in the architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries. One focus of her research is the life and work of Erich Mendelsohn. She has published several books on this subject, including "Erich Mendelsohn, Gebaute Welten", 1999, and together with Ita Heinze-Greenberg: "Erich Mendelsohn, Gedankenwelten", 2000, "Erich and Luise Mendelsohn, Eine Partnerschaft für die Kunst", 2004. She was curator of the ifa's touring exhibition: "Erich Mendelsohn, Dynamik und Funktion" (2000-2013), edited Erich and Luise Mendelsohn's correspondence for the Getty Research Institute and the Kunstbibliothek Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in 2014 (http://ema.smb.museum/) and, together with Jörg Haspel, is the initiator of the Erich Mendelsohn Initiative, founded in 2021.
