Niklas Maak
Niklas Maak (born August 17, 1972 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist and architecture critic .
Life
Maak studied art history, philosophy and architecture in Hamburg and Paris. In 1998 he received his doctorate from Martin Warnke with a dissertation on “ Architects on the beach. The Objet à réaction poétique in the work of Le Corbusier and Paul Valéry ”. From 1999 to 2001 he was editor for architecture and Streiflicht author of the " Süddeutsche Zeitung ". Since 2001 he has been an editor in the features section of the “ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ”. Maak (nma) heads the art department there together with Julia Voss . He writes architecture-critical city portraits for the travel magazine " Merian ".
Maak taught architectural history as a visiting professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main as well as at Harvard and Berlin.
Awards
- 2009: " George F. Kennan Commentary Prize" from the German Foreign Ministry for a polemical architecture criticism of the new US embassy in Berlin .
- 2012: Henri Nannen Prize in the Best Essay category for “Architects, on the barricades!”, Published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
- 2015: Prize for architecture criticism from the Association of German Architects
- 2017: Critics' Prize of the HBS-Kulturfonds.
Fonts
- with Pamela Lee, Okwui Enwezor, Wolfgang Tillmans: Kunst lehren / Teaching art, Städelschule Frankfurt am Main , König, Cologne, 2008, ISBN 3-86560339-4 .
- with Stanislaus von Moos , Arthur Rüegg and others: Le Corbusier - Art and Architecture , Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (exhibition catalog), 2009, ISBN 978-3-931936-72-3 .
- Logbook: Novel of a car , Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23558-8 .
- Residential complex. Why we need other houses , Hanser-Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24352-1 .
- Atlas of strange houses and their inhabitants . Carl Hanser, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25289-9 .
- Through Manhattan . Drawings and photos Leanne Shapton . Munich: Carl Hanser, 2017 ISBN 978-3-446-25666-8
- Technophoria . Novel. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-446-26834-0
Web links
- Niklas Maak (nma.) - short résumé at FAZ
- What can we build on? : Niklas Maak on the occasion of the award of the Lower Saxony State Prize for Architecture (PDF; 77 kB)
- Niklas Maak: Citizens, to the monkeys! - Hotel test report in the FAZ from March 2, 2014, PDF copy at Forum Stadtbild Berlin eV
- Deutschlandfunk (DLF) nuances. Music and personal questions from May 20, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/person/niklas-maak/
- ↑ The message of the embassy , published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on April 21, 2008, “because he succeeds in describing the global political position and the identity problems of the USA with an architectural criticism”. (Reasons given by the jury)
- ↑ Press release from the Federal Foreign Office
- ^ Architects, on the barricades! , FAS, November 26, 2011
- ↑ From Le Corbusier to Bremen: Niklas Maak was awarded the BDA prize for architectural criticism . Website of the Association of German Architects.
- ↑ Niklas Maak. Receives the HBS Critics' Prize 2017 in FAZ on October 10, 2017, page 9
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maak, Niklas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and architecture critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |