Margitta Buchert is – since 2000 – professor in Architecture and Art 20th/21st Century at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Sciences of Leibniz Universität Hannover. The teaching contents focus on architectural theory, design theory, design principles as well as wingspans of modernity. The primary fields of research are 'Reflexive Design', 'Urban Architecture' along with the aesthetics and contextuality of architecture, arts, cities, and nature.

She has been invited lecturer and expert in diverse national and international institutions and is the curator of the annual symposia on Design and Research in Architecture and Landscape (DARA): Reflexive Design, as well as academic partner in the innovative, international EU-funded research network: Communities of Tacit Knowledge, TACK.