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Peter Krieger, received his PhD in 1996 from the University of Hamburg (Graduate Program Political Iconography). Since 1998 he has been Research Professor at the Institute for Aesthetic Research at the Mexican National University (Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM); from 2004 to 2012 he was Vice President of the International Committee of Art History (CIHA/UNESCO); from 2007 to 2014 he was academic collaborator at the project “Transcultural and Transhistoric Efficiencies of the Baroque Paradigm”, University of Western Ontario, London/ON. From 2010 to 2014 Krieger was a member of the scientific board of the Ministry of Urban Development of Mexico City (Comisión de Publicidad Exterior, Seduvi/GDF). He invented concepts and organized conferences, e.g. about the relationship between city scapes and nature. In September 2016 Krieger was chair of the section “Landscape and Spectacle” of the 34th World Congress of Art History (CIHA) in Beijing, China. In 2016 he was Aby Warburg Visiting Professor at the Warburg-Haus, Hamburg. At present Krieger is a Visiting Fellow “Literary Cultures of the Global South” at Tübingen University/DAAD (April to June, 2017), and Visiting Professor at Regensburg University (July, 2017). His research and publications include the Image and History of Cities and Landscape in the 20th and 21st century; Aesthetics and Ecology of Mega-Cities; Political Iconography of City-Scapes and Architecture; Art and Sciences.