Anna Minta

Anna Minta (* 1970 in Düsseldorf ) is a German architectural historian .

Life

From 1990 to 1998 she studied art history ( Magister major), journalism and modern history (minor subjects) at the Free University of Berlin and from 1993 to 1994 urban and regional planning at the TU Berlin (1998 Master’s degree, Free University of Berlin, May 1998 with the thesis “ Zeev Rechter and the 'Haus Engel' in Tel Aviv, 1933 in the context of Le Corbusier's architectural theory ”). From 1999 to 2003 she was a research assistant at the Institute of Art History at Kiel University . After completing her doctorate in art history in Kiel in 2003 with the thesis "Nation Building" in Israel. Architecture, urban development and monument politics between the War of Independence of 1948/49 and the Six-Day War of 1967 ", she was a research assistant from 2003 to 2005 at the DFG special research area "Institutionality and Historicity" at the TU Dresden and from 2005 to 2014 research assistant at the Institute for Art History at the University of Bern . After her habilitation in 2013 in the subject of art history in Bern , habilitation thesis "Political and sacred representational architecture in Washington / DC. 'The Battle of the Styles' in the 19th and 20th centuries", she was an SNSF professor at the Institute of Art History from 2014 to 2016 University of Zurich (research project "Sacred Spaces in Modernity. Transformations and Architectural Manifestations"). Since 2016 she has been teaching as professor for the history and theory of architecture at the KU Linz .

Her main research interests are the history of architecture, urban development and design from the 19th century to the present. Country focus: Europe, Israel and the USA, architectural theory and spatial sociology: identity constructions and discourses of power in public space, auratic space constructions and sacralization processes in modern times and communication strategies, historiography and monument preservation.

Fonts (selection)

• Build Israel. Architecture, urban development and monument policy after the state was founded in 1948 . Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-496-01318-4 .
• as editor with Bernd Nicolai and Markus Thome : City, University of Bern. 175 years of buildings and works of art . Bern 2009, ISBN 978-3-258-07406-1 .
• as editor with Bernd Nicolai: Parliamentary Representations. The Bundeshaus in Bern in the context of international parliament buildings and national strategies . Berlin 2014, ISBN 3-0343-1502-3 .
• State buildings and sacred architecture in Washington / DC. Style concepts of patriotic architecture . Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-496-01531-4 .

Web links

• Univ.-Prof. In Dr.in phil. Anna Minta