Andres Lepik

Andres Lepik

Andres Lepik (* 1961 in Augsburg ) is a German museum director and architectural historian.

Life

Lepik studied art history and German at the University of Augsburg and received his doctorate from the Bibliotheca Hertziana on The Architectural Model in Italy: 1353–1500 . He then worked as a freelance journalist, u. a. for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

From 1994 to 1996 he was a scientific museum assistant at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, from 1996 to 1998 he coordinated the exhibition "The 20th Century. A Century of Art in Germany" (1998) under Director General Peter-Klaus Schuster , whose scientific advisor he was from 1998 to 2000 was. From 2000 to 2004 he was Head of Publications and Human Resources at the Directorate-General. He worked as a curator at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, where he held several architecture exhibitions, a. a. Renzo Piano . Architectures of Life (2000), Content . Rem Koolhaas and AMO / OMA (2003) and Oswald Mathias Ungers Kosmos der Architektur (2006) organized. Between 2004 and 2007 he was head of the architecture collection 20./21. Century at the art library of the State Museums in Berlin . From 2007 to 2010 he was a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. a. Small scale, big change. New Architectures of Social Engagement From 2011 to 2014 he was a correspondent for the architecture and design magazine Domus , from 2012 to 2014 he was co-editor of Candide, Journal for Architectural Knowledge . In 2012 he was a Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and co-curated the exhibition “Participation: Empowerment in Practice” together with the seminar leader and the students.

In May 2012 Lepik was appointed professor for architectural history and curatorial practice at the Technical University of Munich , and since October 1, 2012 he has been director of the Architecture Museum at the Technical University of Munich . From July 2013 to March 2015 he was a member of the IBA Heidelberg Board of Trustees, and from October 2013 to September 2019 a member of the Visual Arts Advisory Board at the Goethe-Institut . Since 2018 he has been on the board of the International Confederation of Architecture Museums (ICAM). The exhibition "Think Global, Build Social!" Curated by him and shown in 2012 at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum and the Architekturzentrum Wien has been on tour since autumn 2015 and is being presented at over 30 Goethe Institutes worldwide.

Publications

As an author

• Small Scale, Big Change, New Architectures of Social Engagement. MoMA, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-87070-784-1 .
• Skyscrapers. Prestel, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7913-3155-8 .
• The architectural model in Italy 1353–1500. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1994, ISBN 3-88462-104-1 .

As editor

• "Francis Kéré. Radically Simple." Exhibition catalog, Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7757-4216-0 .
• with Simone Bader: "WORLD OF MALLS", Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7757-4138-5
• Lina Bo Bardi: Brazil's Alternative Path to Modernity. Exhibition catalog. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-7757-3852-1 .
• Show and tell: collecting architecture. Exhibition catalog. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-7757-3801-9 .
• AFRITECTURE. Build with the community. Exhibition catalog. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7757-3661-9 .
• Zvi Hecker, sketches. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3383-0 .
• Moderators of Change, architecture that helps. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-3186-7 .
• Barkow Leibinger Reflect, Building in the Digital Media City Seoul, Korea. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7757-1954-4 .
• OM Ungers. Architecture cosmos. Exhibition catalog. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7757-1820-2 .
• with Anne Schmedding: Architecture in Berlin: The XX. Century. A century of art in Germany. DuMont book publisher. Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7701-5062-7 .
• with Paul Kahlfeld: Neue Nationalgalerie, thirty years. Berlin 1998.

Web links

• Literature by and about Andres Lepik in the catalog of the German National Library
• Andres Lepik. In: arch INFORM .
• CV of Andres Lepik (English) ( Memento from October 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• Interview with Andres Lepik on the subject of "high-rise buildings" ( Memento from January 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
• Lecture by Andres Lepik at the Loeb Fellowship Symposium: What Criticism? "Forms of the Uncertain," February 2014 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ MoMA - Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement. The Museum of Modern Art, 2013, accessed January 23, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Candide - Journal for Architectural Knowledge, Imprint. Retrieved April 25, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Participation: Empowerment in Practice. Harvard University Graduate School of Design, accessed April 25, 2013 . 
4. ↑ TUM - Harvard Fellow Andres Lepik becomes director of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich Website of the Technical University of Munich. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
5. ↑ IBA Heidelberg is picking up speed - a board of trustees made up of experts and personalities supports the IBA office in its work. (PDF, 2.3 MB) In: Stadtblatt (Official Gazette). City of Heidelberg, July 10, 2013, accessed on July 21, 2013 .