Andreas Denk

Andreas Denk (* 1959 in Dortmund ) is a German architectural historian , architectural theorist and journalist.

Andreas Denk is editor-in-chief of the magazine “ der architekt ” of the Association of German Architects and professor for architectural theory at the Technical University of Cologne . Since 2015 he has been a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts , chairman of the Society for Art and Design (Bonn), member of the board of the Hans Schaefers Foundation (Berlin), curator of the board of the Architekturforum Rheinland e. V. in the House of Architecture (Cologne) and extraordinary member of the Association of German Architects BDA.

Denk studied art history, urban planning, technical, economic and social history as well as prehistory and early history in Bochum, Freiburg im Breisgau and Bonn. He lives in Bonn. He works in Berlin and Cologne.

Books (selection)

• Denk, Andreas / Matzerath, Josef : The three Dresden parliaments. The Saxon state parliaments and their buildings: indicators for the development from the corporate to the pluralized society , Wolfratshausen 2000, ISBN 978-3-932353-44-4 .
• (with Alice Sàrosi-Tumusiime and David Kasparek): Bund Deutscher Architekten BDA. Chronicle of an electoral community . 1903–2013, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-042134-1 .
• Denk, Andreas / Schröder, Uwe (Ed.): City of Spaces. Interdisciplinary considerations on urban spaces . With contributions from Gernot Böhme, Christopher Dell, Georg Franck, Michael Mönninger, Fritz Neumeyer u. a., Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8030-0915-9 .
• Denk, Andreas / Schröder, Uwe (Ed.): Rooms of the City. Student theses on the City of Spaces , Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8030-0914-2 .
• Denk, Andreas / Schröder, Uwe / Schützeichel, Rainer (Hrsg.): Architecture space theory. An annotated anthology. With the scientific collaboration of Christopher Schriner, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8030-0774-2 .
• Denk, Andreas / Society for Art and Design (Ed.): Uwe Schröder. Monolith , Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-96098-274-6.

Fonts (selection from 2013)

• Liberation of form? Levels of mimesis in architecture , in: Deutscher Werkbund Nordrhein-Westfalen (Hrsg.): Mimesis. The principle of imitation, Oberhausen 2013, pp. 12–29 [Werkbund Akademiereihe 14].
• The idea comes while walking. Bertram Weisshaar and the origins of walking science , in: Weisshaar, Bertram (Ed.): Walking science in practice. Formats in Locomotion, Berlin 2013, pp. 32–39, ISBN 978-3-86859-242-9 .
• In the realm of crisis. The city at the end and at the beginning , in: Siegemund, Jochen / Köring, Dietmar / Schulz, Jan / Hanses, Katrin (eds.): Smart City Concepts. Concepts for energetic urban redevelopment using the example of Cologne, Ludwigsburg 2013, pp. 12–19, ISBN 978-3-89986-187-7 .
• Medium width. On the relationship between synesthesia and atmosphere , in: der architekt. Journal of the Association of German Architects BDA, 6_2013, pp. 44–51, ISSN  0003-875X .
• Quanta of nothing. On "Architecture d'ombre" by Ètienne-Louis Boullée , in: Deutscher Werkbund Nordrhein-Westfalen (Ed.): Is there nothing, the emptiness, the hollow? Approaches, Oberhausen 2014, pp. 66–82 [Werkbund Akademiereihe 15].
• Learning from Africa. Time and space of consecutive urban development , in: von Keitz, Kay / Voggenreiter, Sabine (ed.): Architecture in context. The development of urban living spaces beyond the master plan and facade discussion, Berlin 2014, pp. 74–95 (with English version), ISBN 978-3-86859-297-9 .
• The room as an organ. Considerations for an 'out of date' architectural concept , in: Denk, Andreas Denk / Schröder, Uwe: City of Spaces. Interdisciplinary considerations on urban spaces. With contributions from Gernot Böhme, Christopher Dell, Georg Franck, Michael Mönninger, Fritz Neumeyer u. a., Tübingen 2014, pp. 39-46, ISBN 978-3-8030-0915-9 .
• The sense and art of opening . In: Titus Bernhard Architekten, Luzern 2014, pp. 6–13. (De aedibus international 9), ISBN 978-3-03761-095-4 .
• When shape becomes symbol. About one of the characteristics of architecture that builds society , in: the architect. Journal of the Association of German Architects BDA, 3_2015, pp. 26–33, ISSN  0003-875X .
• The city as a rest ramp? Ten laws of public space , in: Ambach, Markus / von Keitz, Kay: Der urbane Kongress. Art and City in Context, Cologne 2015, pp. 62–69, ISBN 978-3- 86832-267-5.
• At the set table. On the necessity of public space , in: Department of Urban Development, Planning, Building and Transport of the City of Cologne with the House of Architecture (Ed.): Kölner Perspektiven. Urban planning. Architecture. Public room. Texts by Uta Winterhager a. a., Berlin 2016, pp. 120f., ISBN 978-3-86859-403-4 .
• Renovation in the interests of the city. Werner Hegemann and Berlin's urban architecture, in: der architekt. Journal of the Association of German Architects BDA, 3_2016, pp. 24–29, ISSN  0003-875X .
• An attempt at understanding. Type, wall and relief by Carlo Scarpa , in: the architect. Journal of the Association of German Architects BDA, 4_2016, pp. 46–53, ISSN  0003-875X .
• Res Publica. The public space as a democratic ideal , in: the architect. Journal of the Association of German Architects BDA, 6_2016, pp. 16-19, ISSN  0003-875X .
• Live and let live. The city and its social resilience , in: der architekt. Journal of the Association of German Architects BDA, 1_2017, pp. 16-19.
• The bridge. Heidegger's “Place” and the term “Milieus” , in: der architekt. Journal of the Association of German Architects BDA, 3_2017, pp. 22–27.
• The Böhms. Embossing and stubbornness , in: Die Böhms. A century of architecture and art. Published by the Museum of Modern Art Wörlen Passau, Passau 2017, ISBN 978-3-928844-68-0 .
• The space of the wall as a carrier of meaning. Architecture as a means of expression in the city , in: The city as a spatial design. Theories and projects in urban planning since the end of the 19th century. Edited by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnai and Rainer Schützeichel, Berlin 2017, pp. 263–275, ISBN 978-3-422-07426-2 .
• (with Uwe Schröder): Living with art: Das Förg-Friedrichs-Projekt / Living with Art: The Jörg Friedrichs Project , in: Günther Förg. Works in the Friedrichs Collection. Works from the Friedrichs Collection. With texts by Hans Werner Holzwarth, Brunhild & Günther Friedrichs, Christian Malycha, Florian Rehn, Andreas Denk, Uwe Schröder, Herbert Kopp, Olaf Metzel, Paul Schimmel, Max Hetzler, André Butzer, Hannah Eckstein, Ulrich Loock, Regine Ehleitner, Berlin 2019 , Pp. 22-31.
• Failed symbol. The meta city of the New City of Wulfen , in: der architekt. Journal of the Association of German Architects BDA, 2_2019, pp. 44–45.
• An expensive experiment. The settlement "An den Stahlhäusern" in Dortmund , in: der architekt. Journal of the Association of German Architects BDA, 2_2019, pp. 26–27.
• A romantic symbol. Tectonics as a unity of construction and form , in: der architekt. Journal of the Association of German Architects BDA, 6_2019, pp. 26–31.
• Building blocks of urban society. Social, ecological and political aspects of the quarter , in: der architekt. Journal of the Association of German Architects BDA, 1_2020, pp. 18–21.
• After the fire. Santa Justa e Rufino in Lisbon , in: the architect. Journal of the Association of German Architects BDA, 3_2020, pp. 60–61.
• Gestalten , in: Gestaltung | TH Cologne. studio for architecture + design. prof. dr. nadine zinser-junghanns, Cologne 2020, pp. 4–7, ISBN 978-3-752-86653-7 .
• The rhetoric of the material. Reflections on the aesthetics of urban mining , in: der architekt. Journal of the Association of German Architects BDA, 4_2020, pp. 58–61.

Web links

• www.andenk.de (website by Andreas Denk)
• Andreas Denk. In: arch INFORM . (with list of publications)