Bärbel Högner
Bärbel Högner (* 1960 ) is a German ethnologist , photographer and author .
Life
Högner teaches at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg and now lives in Berlin. Her interest in modern architecture led her to India, where she examined the relationship between social and urban sculpture using the example of the planned city of Chandigarh, which was shaped by Le Corbusier .
Publications
- Type Berlin - The Corbusierhaus in Charlottenburg . JOVIS Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86859-004-3
- Chandigarh - Living with Le Corbusier . Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86859-137-8
- with Dietmar Strauch : Konrad Wachsmann. Stations of an architect . Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-88777-023-5 .
- Chandigarh after Le Corbusier: Ethnography of a post-colonial planned city in India . Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-496-01533-8
Exhibitions
- Le Corbusier - the Unité in Berlin , Weißenhofsiedlung Stuttgart, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe building, 2010
- Living with Le Corbusier , Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt am Main (undated)
Web links
- Literature by and about Bärbel Högner in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ University of Frankfurt , accessed on February 2, 2016
- ↑ University of Frankfurt am Main
- ^ Photographer Bärbel Högner. Chandigarh, the Indian city of Le Corbusier . Die Zeit online, May 7, 2012, accessed on February 2, 2016
- ↑ BauNetz.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 19, 2010, accessed February 2, 2016.
- ^ Exhibition archive on the Weltkulturen Museum website, accessed on February 2, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Högner, Bärbel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ethnologist, photographer and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |