Markus Breitschmid

Markus Breitschmid ( born April 20, 1966 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss architectural theorist and historian of architecture.

Life

Breitschmid is a trained architect. He studied architecture in Switzerland, the United States of America and in Germany. He received his doctorate at the Technical University of Berlin as a doctor of engineering sciences. His publications deal with the aesthetic mentality of modern and contemporary architecture. With the book " The Spirit -build. Friedrich Nietzsche and the architecture " Breitschmid is one of the first, the importance of the term " treated building " in the works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Other book publications deal with the themes of contemporary Swiss architecture, the problem of tectonics, Bruno Taut, and the work of Valerio Olgiati. Breitschmid is the most important experts and researchers on the work of Olgiati.

Since 2004 Breitschmid professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, first as an associate professor and since 2010 as a full professor. Since 2011 he is Head of the Bachelor of Architecture training course. Previously, he taught at Cornell University ( 2003), the University of North Carolina ( 1998-2002), the Catholic University of America (1997) and the University of Louisiana ( 1994-95 ). Breitschmid has given numerous lectures on a wide variety of architecture colleges, architecture associations and organizations in the U.S., Europe and Asia, and he was active in numerous faculties of architecture as a guest critic.

Works (excerpt)

As author

  • The spirit -build. Friedrich Nietzsche and the architecture. Quart, 2001, ISBN 3-907631-23-4.
  • Can Architectural Art- form be Designed Out Of Construction? Architecture Edition, 2004, ISBN 0-9702820-8-7.
  • Nietzsche 's thinking space. Didacta Edition, 2006, ISBN 978-3-033-01206-6 ( hardcover ), ISBN 978-3-033-01148-9 ( paperback ).
  • Three Architects in Switzerland: Beat Consoni - Morger & Degalo - Valerio Olgiati. Quart, 2008, ISBN 978-3-907631-88-1.
  • The importance of the idea. The Architecture of Valerio Olgiati. Niggli, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7212-0676-0.
  • El de Valerio Olgiati Inventorio Conceptual / Valerio Olgiati 's Ideational Inventory ( = El Croquis. No.. 156). El Croquis Editorial, Madrid 2011, ISBN 978-84-88386-65-6.
  • The Architect as " Molder of the Sensibilities of the General Public ": Bruno Taut and his architecture program. In: Shawn Chandler Bingham: The Art of Social Critique. Painting Mirrors of Social Life. Lexington, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7391-4923-2.
  • With Victoria Easton: Christ & Gantenbein. Around the Corner. Hatje Cantz &, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3381-6.

As editor (excerpt)

  • Valerio Olgiati - Conversation with Students. Virginia Tech Architecture Publications, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9794296-3-7.
  • Thoughts on Building. Corporis Publisher for Architecture, Art, and Photography, 2008, ISBN 978-0-97954728-7.
  • With Leina Gonzalez: Olgiati. English Edition. Birkhäuser, 2011 ISBN 978-3-0346-0783-4 ( also available in German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese editions).
  • Architecture and the Ambient - Mario Botta ( = Architectura et Ars Series Vol 2. ). Virginia Tech Architecture Publications, 2013, ISBN 978-0-9893936-5-2.
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