Ungarn und das Bauhaus
(1976)
SENSORY TECTONICS
(2011)
Kari Jormakka has been teaching architectural theory at the Bauhaus University in Weimar since 2007. In addition, he has been an Ordinarius Professor of architectural theory at Vienna University of Technology since 1998. Previously, he has taught at the Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Tampere University of Technology as well as Harvard University. Author of ten books and many papers on architectural history and theory, he studied architecture at Otaniemi University in Helsinki and at Tampere University of Technology, as well as philosophy at Helsinki University.
M. Christine Boyer is an urban historian whose interests include the history of the American city, city planning, preservation planning, and computer science. Before coming to Princeton University in 1991, Boyer was professor and chair of the City and Regional Planning Program at Pratt Institute. She was a visiting professor in the Ph.D. program at TU Deflt School of Design for Spring 2005. She has written extensively about American urbanism. Her publications include Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning 1890 –1945 (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1983), Manhattan Manners: Architecture and Style 1850-1900 (New York: Rizzoli, 1985), The City of Collective Memory (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994), and CyberCities (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996).
Geb. 1956 in Zürich; nach Berufslehre und -tätigkeit in der Chemischen Industrie Studium der Kunstwissenschaft, Geschichte, Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Mittelalterarchäologie. 1992 Promotion zum Dr. phil., danach Oberassistent am Institut für Denkmalpflege der Architekturabteilung der ETH Zürich, unterbrochen durch Forschungsaufenthalt als Mitglied des Istituto Svizzero in Rom. Lehraufträge an den Universitäten Basel, Bern und Zürich sowie an der ETH Zürich. 2000 Habilitation an der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät der Universität Basel, ebd. bis 2007 Privatdozent für Kunstwissenschaft. Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Leiter von Nationalfonds-Projekten. 2003 Berufung auf die Professur für Denkmalkunde und angewandte Bauforschung an der Fakultät Architektur der Technischen Universität Dresden. Seit Januar 2008 Professor für Denkmalpflege und Baugeschichte an der Fakultät Architektur der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Forschungen und Publikation zur Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte hauptsächlich des Mittelalters, zur Rezeptions- und Fachgeschichte sowie zur Geschichte und Theorie der Denkmalpflege. (Mit-)Organisator zahlreicher internationaler Tagungen. Mitglied zahlreicher Denkmalpflegerischer Arbeitskreise und Gremien.
Lara Schrijver is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft. She is one of three program leaders for a new research program in the department of architecture, ‘The Architectural Project and its Foundations’. Schrijver holds degrees in architecture from Princeton University and the TU Delft. She received her Ph.D. from the TU Eindhoven in 2005. Schrijver has taught design and theory courses, and contributed to conferences in the Netherlands as well as abroad. She was an editor for OASE, journal for architecture, for ten years, and was co-organizer of the 2006 conference ‘The Projective Landscape’. Her current work revolves around the role of architecture in the city, and its responsibility in defining the public domain. Her first book, Radical Games, on the influence of the 1960s on contemporary discourse, is forthcoming in the spring of 2009.
EXTRA-STATECRAFT
(2011)
Keller Easterling is an architect, urbanist, and writer. Her latest book, Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005), researches familiar spatial products that have landed in difficult or hyperbolic political situations around the world. Her previous book, Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America, applies network theory to a discussion of American infrastructure and development formats. A forthcoming book, Extrastatecraft, researches global infrastructure as a medium of polity. Ms. Easterling is also the author of Call It Home, a laser disc history of suburbia, and American Town Plans. She has recently completed two research installations on the Web: “Wildcards: A Game of Orgman” and “Highline: Plotting NYC.” Her work has been widely published in journals such as Grey Room, Volume, Cabinet, Assemblage, Log, Praxis, Harvard Design Magazine, Perspecta, Metalocus, and ANY. Her work is also included as chapters in numerous publications. She has lectured widely in the United States as well as internationally. Ms. Easterling’s work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum, the Architectural League, the Municipal Arts Society, and the Wexner Center. Easterling is a professor at Yale’s School of Architecture.
OUT OF EMPIRE
(2011)
Philip Ursprung studierte Kunstgeschichte, Allgemeine Geschichte und Germanistik in Genf, Wien und Berlin. Er wurde 1993 an der FU Berlin promoviert und 1999 an der ETH Zürich habilitiert. Er unterrichtete an den Universitäten Genf, Basel und Zürich, an der ETH Zürich, der Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee und der Universität der Künste Berlin. 2001-2005 war er Nationalfonds- Förderungsprofessor für Geschichte der Gegenwartskunst am Departement Architektur der ETH Zürich. Seit 2005 ist er Professor für Moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst an der Universität Zürich. 2007 war er Gastprofessor an der Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation der Columbia University New York. Er war Gastkurator am Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, am Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal und der Graduate School for Architecture, Planning and Preservation der Columbia University New York. Er ist Autor von Grenzen der Kunst: Allan Kaprow und das Happening, Robert Smithson und die Land Art (München, 2003), Herausgeber von Herzog & de Meuron: Naturgeschichte (Montreal und Baden 2002), sowie Ko-autor von Images: A Picture Book of Architecture (München 2004), Minimal Architecture (München, 2003) und Studio Olafur Eliasson: An Encyclopedia (Köln, 2008). Zuletzt erschien Caruso St John: Almost Everything (Barcelona, 2008).
IST DAS BAUHAUS AKTUELL?
(2011)
Geboren 1922 in Buenos Aires, ist Tomás Maldonado heute Professor Emeritus für Umweltplanung am Politecnico in Mailand. Er studierte an der Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. 1954 bis 1967 war er Dozent an der Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Ulm, 1955-1956 Prorektor, bis 1960 Rektor der HfG. 1965: Lethaby Lecturer am Royal College of Arts, London. 1966 wurde er zum Fellow des Council of Humanities an der University Princeton (USA) ernannt, von 1968 bis 1970 lehrte er an der School of Architecture dieser Universität. Die Society of Industrial Artists and Designers (GB) verleih ihm 1968 die „Design Medal“. Er war von 1967 bis 1969 Vorsitzender des Präsidiums des International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID). Von 1971 bis 1983 lehrte er zusätzlich an der Universität von Bologna. 1976 bis 1981 war er der Herausgeber der Zeitschrift Casabella in Mailand. 1979 Research Fellow an der Graduate School of Design der Harvard University. Ausgewählte Schriften erschienen 2007 unter dem Titel „Digitale Welt und Gestaltung“ in Zürich.
Leslie Kavanaugh is both an architect and a philosopher. She is a licensed architect in America and the Netherlands, as well as a member of the AIA, but studied philosophy from undergraduate to doctorate at the University of Amsterdam. She has taught philosophy and design at various institutions, including twelve years at TUDelft, and as a guest professor at the Tokyo Science University and Milano Politecnico. Her publications include The Architectonic of Philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz (Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2007), Crossovers (with A.Graafland), Meditations on Space (2010), Aggregates (2010), and Chronotopologies: Hybrid Spatialities and Multiple Temporalities (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, forthcoming). Presently she is the founder and director of studiokav.com in Amsterdam, a multi-disciplinary and collaborative atelier. In addition, Kavanaugh is an affiliated Senior Scholar at the Philosophy Institute, Leiden University, the Netherlands.
Stanford Anderson is Professor of History and Architecture and was Head of the Department of Architecture from 1991 through 2004. He was director of MIT’s PhD program in History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture, Art and Urban Form from its founding in 1974 to 1991 and in 1995-96. Anderson’s research and writing concern architectural theory, early modern architecture in northern Europe, American architecture and urbanism, and epistemology and historiography. He has organized numerous professional conferences and served on the editorial boards of Assemblage, Journal of Architectural Education, Places, and The MIT Press. In addition to numerous articles, his books are Planning for Diversity and Choice, On Streets, and Hermann Muthesius: Style-Architecture and Building Art. He is co-author of Kay Fisker. Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century appeared in 2000 and Eladio Dieste: Innovation in Structural Art in 2004. In 1997, The MIT Press published a collection of essays in his honor, edited by Martha Pollak: The Education of the Architect: Historiography, Urbanism, and the Growth of Knowledge. He was a Fulbright fellow at the Technische Hochschule in Munich and subsequently a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. Anderson received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota, his master’s in architecture from the University of California at Berkeley, and his doctoral degree in the history of art from Columbia University in New York City.
Eine neue, kopflose Gewalt hat den Imperialismus vergangener Zeiten abgelöst. Die neue Weltordnung, das »Empire«, überschreitet alle Grenzen unserer althergebrachten politischen Begriffe – Staat und Gesellschaft, Krieg und Frieden, Kontrolle und Freiheit. Das dezentralisierte und deterritorialisierte Empire beherrscht uns, indem es durch die Medien, die Technik und durch soziale Praktiken unmittelbaren Einfluss auf uns Menschen nimmt.
Architektur und Raumplanung haben sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten radikal gewandelt. Die alten, modernistischen Bestrebungen nach erschwinglichen Wohnungen und einer rationalen Organisation der Städte sind ebenso in den Hintergrund gerückt wie die postmodernen Obsessionen der Kommunikation, der Nutzerbeteiligung und des öffentlichen Raumes. Stattdessen stehen nun ästhetische und entschieden unpolitischere Belange im Vordergrund: Diskussionen zwischen einer kritischen und einer projektiven Praxis, zwischen Blobs und Kisten, zwischen Atmosphäre und Ornament.
Doch das ist noch lange nicht das Ende der Geschichte, wie im vorliegenden Band deutlich wird. Die Beiträge des 11. Bauhaus-Kolloquiums umspannen einen Zeitraum, der von der Gründung des Bauhauses in Weimar bis zur globalen Architektur unserer Zeit reicht, und verfolgen dabei die Entwicklung des Empires zurück, um gleichzeitig nach Konsequenzen und Alternativen zu fragen, denen die Architektur sich heute gegenübergestellt sieht.
REVISITING 1923
(2011)
Addison Godel is a student at the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State, working towards a three-year Master of Architecture. He is a teaching assistant for a variety of history and theory courses, as well as two of the school’s European travel-abroad programs. His interests include the relationship between style and larger cultural forces, and the efforts of architecture to symbolically adapt and represent contemporary technology.
DAS KOLLOQUIUM
(2011)
Geb.1946 in Luckenwalde, nach dem Studium der Architektur in Weimar Promotion 1974 auf dem Gebiet der Architekturtheorie, 1973 bis 1980 Abteilung Theorie und Geschichte der Architektur am Institut für Städtebau und Architektur der Bauakademie in Berlin. Arbeiten zur Architekturpsychologie und Architektursemiotik sowie Beiträge zur empirischen Wirkungsforschung in der Architektur. Ab 1980 Lehrtätigkeit an der Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen (HAB) Weimar. 1992 Berufung zum Universitätsprofessor an der HAB für das Fach „Entwerfen und Architekturtheorie“, im gleichen Jahr Wahl zum Rektor der Hochschule, 1996 Wiederwahl für weitere vier Jahre. Publikationen zur Architekturtheorie, Konzeption und Veranstaltung der Internationalen Bauhaus-Kolloquien, internationale Programme mit der WASEDA Universität Tokyo, dem IIT Chicago, seit Mitte der 90er Jahre jährliche Entwurfsakademie in Rom. 2003 Wahl zum Dekan der Fakultät Architektur und 2004 erneute Wahl zum Rektor der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
Michael Speaks ist Dekan an der Universität des Kentuck Collge of Design und ehemaliger Gründungsvorstand des Metropolitan Research and Design Postgraduate Program der Sci-Arc in Los Angeles. Er leitet ebenfalls Big Soft Orange, eine niederländisch-amerikanische Stadtforschungsgruppe mit Standorten in Rotterdam und Los Angeles. Er war Herausgeber und Gründer des Kulturjournals Polygraph, sowie Mitherausgeber von Architecture New York und a+u (Tokyo), und arbeitet derzeit als beitragender Herausgeber für das Architecutral Record. Als Lehrer, Forscher und Herausgeber hat Speaks in zahlreichen Institutionen innerhalb der Vereinigten Staaten wie auch im Ausland mitgewirkt, darunter die Technischen Universität Delft, die Yale School of Arts, die Harvard University, die Columbia University, die University of Michigan, das Berlage Institut in Rotterdam und die University of California, Los Angeles. Außerhalb des Hörsaals hat der in Los Angeles lebende Schriftsteller und Kritiker sich in Vorträgen und Veröffentlichungen zur Kunst, Architektur, der Stadt- und Szenarienplanung geäußert. In jüngeren Diskussionen um die Rolle von Innovation und Prototypenentwicklung für das Design nimmt er eine zentrale Position ein und hat eine vielzahl einflussreicher Aufsätze geschrieben, welche auf die Bedeutung dessen verweisen, was er eine „Design Intelligence“ nennt.
SPACE SYNTAX
(2011)
Bill Hillier ist Professor für architektonische und urbane Morphologie an der University of London, Vorsitzender der Bartlett School of Graduate Studies und Leiter des Space Syntax Laboratorys an der University of London. Er besitzt einen DSc (gehobene Doktorenwürde) an der University of London. Als ursprünglicher Wegbereiter der Methode zur Analyse räumliche Muster, die unter dem Namen "Space Syntax" bekannt wurde, ist er auch Verfasser von The Social Logic of Space (Cambridge University Press, 1984, 1990), das eine allgemeine Theorie über das Verhältnis von Menschen zu dem sie umgebenden, gebauten Raum darlegt, ‘Space is the Machine’ (CUP 1996) das den grundlegenden Untersuchungsstand zu dieser Theorie beeinhaltet, sowie zahlreicher Artikel, die sich mit dem Raum und dessen Wirken befassen. Auch über andere Aspekte der Architekturtheorie hat er ausgiebig geschrieben.
Studium der Architektur an der Technischen Universität Wien. Von 2001 bis 2002 Lehrbeauftragte am Institut für künstlerische Gestaltung der TU Wien. Im Zeitraum 1997-2002 Wettbewerbe, Planungen und Realisationen in den Architekturbüros „the unit“ und „ckp“, 2002-2007 „limit architects“, Wien. Seit 2008 querkraft architekten wien. Dissertationsprojekt seit 2004: Design Strategies: Case Study of Six Projects of Rem Koohaas/ OMA. Seit 2008 wissenschaftliche Assistentin am Institut für Architekturtheorie, Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften der TU Graz. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Architekturtheorie, Gegenwartsarchitektur, Entwurfsmethoden, Architectural Research/Design Studies, Wahrnehmung und Architektur.
TRANSFORMING TACIT KNOWLEDGE
(2011)
Sabine Ammon studied architecture and philosophy at the Technische Universität Berlin. Study and research visits led her to the University of London, Harvard University and ETH Zürich. Furthermore, she practised building design as a freelance architect. Her dissertation “Wissen verstehen. Perspektiven einer prozessualen Theorie der Erkenntnis”, Weilerswist 2009, develops a theory of knowledge, based on the philosophy of symbols. In her current research project she explores the epistemic dimension of architectural design processes.
TRANSFORMING TO EXPERT
(2011)
Katharina Richter holds a degree in Architecture, Urban- and Regional Planning from the Bauhaus-University Weimar, where she is appointed as Assistant Professor at the Chair of Computer Science in Architecture since 2000. She teaches architecture studio in undergraduate and graduate programs and has been supervising several international teaching projects. In Fall 2004 she was teaching and researching at the Washington Alexandria Architecture Consortium - Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Alexandria, VA. Her current research focuses on the investigation of the potential of computer based exchange of experiential knowledge in architecture. Between 2000 and 2006 she coordinated third party verification procedures at the Collaborative Research Center SFB 524 „Materials and Structures in Revitalization of Buildings“, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany. Her work has been published at various international conferences as well as in related reviewed journals.
GENERIC REALISM
(2011)
Bettina Schürkamp completed her diploma in architecture at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart in 1995 and attended the graduate course „Histories and Theories of Architecture“ at the Architectural Association in London. For more than five years she worked as a practising architect for architectural firms in England and Germany such as Bolles+Wilson, Münster and Peter Kulka, Köln. From 2001 until 2007 she held a research and teaching position at the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture at Wuppertal University. Currently she is completing her dissertation on the Dutch architectural firm OMA*AMO She writes as a freelance journalist for architectural magazines in Germany and Switzerland and has been publishing in magazines such as Archithese, Arch+, Bauwelt and Deutsche Bauzeitung.
GRAFT is an architectural firm located in Los Angeles, Berlin, and Beijing. Their collective professional experience encompasses a wide array of building types including Fine Arts, Educational, Institutional, Commercial and Residential facilities. The firm has won numerous awards in Europe as well as in the United States. GRAFT was established in 1998 in Los Angeles by Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz and Thomas Willemeit and opened an office in Berlin in 2001. In 2003 GRAFT opened an office in Beijing with Gregor Hoheisel as partner for the asian market. In 2007 Alejandra Lillo became Partner for the office in Los Angeles. GRAFT was conceived as a ‘Label’ for Architecture, Urban Planning, Design, Music, and the “pursuit of happiness”. Since the firm was established, it has been commissioned to design and manage a wide range of projects in multiple disciplines and locations. With the core of the firm’s enterprises gravitating around the field of architecture and the built environment, GRAFT has always maintained an interest in crossing the boundaries between disciplines and “grafting” the creative potentials and methodologies of different realities. This is reflected in the firm’s expansion into the fields of exhibition design and product design, art installations, academic projects and “events” as well as in the variety of project locations in Germany, China, UAE, Russia, Georgia, in the U.S. and Mexico, to name a few.
PANTS ON FIRE?
(2011)
Grace Quiroga studied architecture at the University of Michigan and at the Vienna University of Technology. Her ongoing architectural projects include the design of a housing project in the Chinese province of Sichuan for a thousand families displaced by the earthquake of 2008. In addition, she is working on a doctoral dissertation titled “Rem Koolhaas and the architecture culture of the AA in the 1970’s”.
Albert Narath is a doctoral candidate in modern architectural history at Columbia University in New York and a Paul Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Research in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. He holds an MA degree from the Architectural Association in London. His dissertation concerns architectural and art historical debates surrounding the Neo-baroque at the end of the nineteenth century in Germany.
Nicole E. Stöcklmayr ist Post-Doc-Stipendiatin im Research-Fellow Programm „Werkzeuge des Entwerfens“ am Internationalen Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Stöcklmayr promovierte an der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien an der sie auch Architektur in den Meisterklassen Hans Hollein, Greg Lynn sowie Zaha Hadid studierte. In ihrer von Gabriele Werner betreuten und von der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften geförderten Dissertation mit dem Titel „Das Architekturbild im digitalen Paradigmenwechsel“ untersuchte sie den Status des Bildes im digitalen Prozess des Architekturentwurfs. Veröffentlichungen: „Architektur ohne Maßstab. Digitale Visualisierungen im Entwurfsprozess“, in: Ingeborg Reichle, Steffen Siegel (Hg.), Maßlose Bilder. Visuelle Ästhetik der Transgression, München 2009, S. 279 – 294; „Das digitale Bild des Architekturentwurfs“, in: Gerald Bast, Florian Bettel, Barbara Hollendonner (Hg.), uni*vers. Junge Forschung in Wissenschaft und Kunst, Wien 2010; S. 59 – 69.
SENSUAL IS POLITICAL
(2011)
Daniela Brasil is currently a PhD candidate at the professorship of Spatial Planning and Research at Architecture Faculty of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, where she has also been teaching since 2007. Her seminars foster bodily experiments and critical thinking on “city’s sensuality”, where discussions on city marketing and affectivity are central. She was educated in architecture and urbanism in Brazil and Portugal and holds a Master of Fine Arts in Public Art and new artistic strategies. Idealizing and realizing artistic-oriented projects that intervene in relations between bodies and cities is her main concern since the mid-nineties; where she preferably works in transdisciplinary groups, as in “Lisbon Capital of Nothing: create, debate and intervene in public space, Marvila 2001”. Daniela currently runs the project “Baustelle M10 > gallery for contemporary experiments” within a collective of artists and students in Weimar.
ARCHITECTURE AND ATMOSPHERE
(2011)
Nathalie Bredella is an architect. She was educated at the TU Berlin and Cooper Union, New York. She received a PhD in Architectural Theory. She taught architectural design at the TU Berlin. She ist the author of Architekturen des Zuschauens. Imaginäre und reale Räume im Film (transcript-verlag). The work is based on an interdisciplinary approach incorporating architecture, film theory and philosophy. Her interests in architectural practice focus on the relationship between spatial strategies, film and media on an urban and architectural scale.
OÍDA OUK EIDÓS
(2011)
Ralf Hennig is a PhD-candidate at the chair of Theory and History of Modern Architecture at the Bauhaus-University Weimar. His prior research interests are focused on historical and current interaction between media, architecture and the city as well as the influence of the alliance of these entities on traditional principles of dwelling. In 2004-2005 he was responsible for the conception and constitution of the postgraduate Master’s degree programme MediaArchitecture at the Bauhaus-University Weimar. In 2007-2008 he worked there as a scientific associate at the chair of Sociology of Globalisation, involved in various activities such as the research project MEDIACITY.
Sandra Lippert-Vieira, 1971 in Lissabon, Portugal geboren, schloss 1995 ihr Architekturstudium an der Universidade Lusíada in Lissabon ab. Bis 2003 arbeitete sie als Freie Architektin in Lissabon und war Entwurfsassistentin an der Universidade Moderne und Universidade Lusófona in Lissabon bei Prof. em. Amâncio d’Alpoim Guedes, Lehrstuhl für Entwurf. Derzeit ist sie wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Fachgebiet Gebäudelehre bei Prof. Daniele Marques, Institut für Entwerfen, Kunst und Theorie, KIT – Karlsruher Institut für Technologie. Sie promovierte an der BTU Cottbus, Prof. Führ, zum Thema „Dissoziative Architektur. Zwischen Teufelskralle und Scheinriese. Wege zu einem weiteren Verständnis der Architektur des Expressionismus.“
Bisherige Veröffentlichungen:
„Wege zu einer Rezeptionsästhetik in der Architektur: das implizite Leben der gebauten Welt,“ in: Wolkenkuckucksheim (Heft 2/08); „Texte und Kontexte“ von Jürgen Habermas und „Martin Heidegger. Unterwegs zu seiner Biographie“ von Hugo Ott. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Expressionistische Architektur, Outsider Architektur, Architekturinterpretationsmethoden, Avantgarde und Postanarchismus.
FORM’S FALLOW FUNCTION
(2011)
Douglas Graf received an A.B. in architecture and urban planning from Princeton and a M.Arch. from Harvard and currently teaches courses in design and architectural theory at the Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University. His teaching career has included the Kentucky, Washington, and Yale, as well as positions in Britain, Germany, and Finland, where he first went on a Fulbright to study the work of Alvar Aalto. He has received five teaching awards. His interest in design theory has a primary focus on formal analysis, which is applied not only to architecture but also to urban form, landscape, photography, painting, product design, and graphics. One of his signature investigations has been into the structure and use of diagrams as tools for ‘close reading.’ Many of his investigations have explored ‘metaphoric time’ as a central design strategy. He has written about the idea of the ‘encyclopedic set’ as a persistent means of modeling complexity and the use of ‘fictive landscapes’ to derive narratives for the city. He currently divides his time between Columbus (the one in Ohio) and London (not the one in Ohio), where he has been researching the design strategies in English gardens and the formal structure of the pre-industrial village. He is one of the principals in Mid-Ohio Design, a firm of architects and urban designers whose work elides from the real to the academic and who have won a number of urban design competitions.
MODELLWECHSEL
(2011)
Wolfgang Pehnt lehrte Baugeschichte an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Er hat zahllose Arbeiten zur Architekturgeschichte der Moderne veröffentlicht und Monographien über Baumeister wie Gottfried Böhm, Hans Poelzig, Rudolf Schwarz und Karljosef Schattner geschrieben; er war Autor bei der Propyläen-Kunstgeschichte und Mitarbeiter von Fachzeitschriften, Katalogbüchern, Tageszeitungen und Rundfunkanstalten. Seine Bücher „Die Architektur des Expressionismus“ und „Deutsche Architektur seit 1900“ gelten als Standardwerke. Er wurde vielfach ausgezeichnet, zuletzt mit dem Deutschen Preis für Denkmalschutz (Karl Friedrich Schinkel-Ring).
Richard Shusterman received a B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and completed his doctoral studies in Philosophy at Oxford University. In Israel he taught at the Hebrew University and the University of the Negev, and then moved to the United States, where he was Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, and chaired its department from 1998-2004. He then was awarded the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar Chair in the Humanities at Florida Atlantic University, where he also directs the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture. His authored books include Surface and Depth (2002); Performing Live (2000); Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life (1997); Sous l’interprétation (1994), Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art (1992, 2nd edition 2000); T.S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism (1988); and The Object of Criticism (1984). His most recent book, Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics was published by Cambridge University Press. It provides the most detailed formulation of his project of somaesthetics.