Bernd Mey

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Bernd Mey (* 1961 in Lindau on Lake Constance ) is a German architect . He has lived in Frankfurt am Main since 1989 .

Life

Education

After working as a bricklayer and concrete worker in Mönchengladbach and as a foreman near Aachen, Bernd Mey completed an architecture degree at RWTH Aachen from 1980 to 1988 with Gottfried Böhm , Fritz Eller and Wolfgang Döring . During his studies he realized two projects in Aachen.

After his main diploma examination, he traveled to around 20 countries in Asia, Africa and South America.

In 1989 he was accepted into the master class for architecture and conceptual design at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. He studied with Peter Cook , Enric Miralles and Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani . From there he switched to teaching and worked as a tutor in the diploma class at the Polytechnic of North London , now the University of North London .

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In 1992 he founded his architecture office under the name architektei mey in Frankfurt am Main.

Mey u. a. through the club " U60311 ", the restaurant in the Maintower and the art project for the Expo 2000 in Hanover. The U60311 in a disused pedestrian underpass in Frankfurt on Roßmarkt has received numerous awards and has been voted the best club in Germany five times. The restaurant in Frankfurt's Maintower is a popular tourist destination and the highest public restaurant in Europe with a bar and viewing platform at a height of 200 meters. The artists Susa Templin and Khan Oral, who were living in New York at the time, commissioned Bernd Mey in 1999 with the implementation of their design for the fish tank of the art project In-Between Architecture curated by Kasper König as part of the Expo 2000.

Together with Christian Pantzer, Bernd Mey was one of the youngest architects in Germany to receive recognition at the German Architecture Prize and an award for exemplary buildings, the highest award for architects in the state of Hesse.

Since 2001 Mey has mainly been involved in planning schools. Successful participation in national and international competitions is a key acquisition tool. So far, around 50 educational institutions in Germany and abroad have been planned.

Bernd Mey's work has been exhibited in six countries and published in ten countries. He lectured on his projects in nine countries. The buildings have been regularly selected for Architecture Day by an independent jury since 1999 .

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And You Got The F… Nerve To Call Me Colored (as Tongue Forest feat. LaMont Humphrey)
  DE 100 01/20/1997 (1 week)

In 1994 Bernd Mey founded a recording studio together with Dennis Pierre Sarratou. The op studio mainly produced electronic music , trance and hip-hop . It was created u. a. the title Tongue Forest - And You Got The F ... Nerve To Call Me Colored (Sony BMG). In 1998 the studio was closed again.

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With Ralf Schmitt (artist and owner of the Förderkoje in Berlin) and Christian Pantzer (architect) he founded the interdisciplinary artist group 10 o'clock in 1996, to which Bernhard Schreiner (filmmaker) also belonged from 1999. The 10 o'clock group took part in several competitions and developed a. a. artistic concepts and performative architecture for the city of Frankfurt am Main and Taipei (Taiwan). Ralf Schmitt and Bernd Mey have been working under the name Halbzehn in the border area between art and architecture since 2002 .

Awards

  • Recognition for the German Architecture Prize 1999 for the U60311 discotheque and U-Bar in the underpass at Rossmarkt in Frankfurt am Main (Architects: Bernd Mey and Christian Pantzer, Frankfurt am Main)
  • Award from the State of Hesse for exemplary buildings in 1999 for the U60311 discotheque and U-Bar, in the underpass at Roßmarkt in Frankfurt am Main
  • Recognition for the sponsorship award of the Association of German Architects 2000 for the club bar in the former pedestrian underpass on Roßmarkt in Frankfurt am Main
  • Bauwelt Prize 1999
  • Recognition for the Deubau Prize (Architecture Prize of the German Construction Fair) 2000 (together with Christian Pantzer for the U60311 discotheque)
  • Award (“highly commended”) for the Architectural Review World leading Award for emerging Architecture 2001 for the U60311 discotheque and U-Bar in the underpass at Roßmarkt in Frankfurt am Main

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE
  2. ^ Documentation of the German Architecture Prize:
    Werner Durth (Hrsg.): Architektur in Deutschland 1999. ISBN 3-7828-4038-0 .
  3. ↑ Building in existing buildings. Junius Verlag, ISBN 3-88506-289-5 .
  4. ↑ Announcement on the sponsorship award at www.baunetz.de
  5. ↑ Bauwelt , year 1999, issue 1–2, p. 23 and p. 42. (online) ( Memento of the original dated December 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bauwelt.de
  6. ↑ Report on Baunetz.de from January 11, 2000
  7. ↑ Documentation of the Deubau Junior Award 2000 :
    Dialectics, variety of approaches. Verlag Das Example, Darmstadt, ISBN 3-923974-89-2 .
  8. ↑ 2001 winners at www.architecturalreviewawards.com
  9. ↑ Documentation of the awards and commendations (English / French): Architecture mediterraneenne ( ISSN  0761-7909 ), no.57 .

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  • Article on the U60311 with pictures, plans and text (Italian / English): Lotus 106 , Architekturmagazin, Italy ISBN 88-289-1045-3
  • Collection of international interior design with u. a. “ Maintower Restaurant Bar” by Bernd Mey (Báihuàwén / English): “a1 Global Interior Design Collection”, China, ISBN 7-5381-4794-2 , page 134ff
  • Article on Club / Bar Roßmarkt and Main Tower Restaurant Bar (Russian): MOHUTOP unlimited tech special, Russia, No. 142002, ISSN  1682-7244
  • Detailed report about the restaurant and the bar in the main tower with many photos and plans (Portuguese / English): Architecti, revista de arquitectura, no.61
  • Full-page article about Bernd Mey and his buildings in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, No. 44, November 7, 1999
  • Idea of ​​u. a. Maintower Restaurant Bar (Polish): Prestige, Poland, ISSN  1734-3291
  • Study work of the master class for architecture, with studies and drafts by u. a. Bernd Mey (English / German): “Städelschule Architektur”, paperback, Verlag Häußer, Darmstadt, ISBN 3-927902-33-0
  • Housing construction guide with representation of u. a. Residential house Hainer Weg by Bernd Mey: "Frankfurt Housing - Architecture in Current Examples", ISBN 3-00-019492-4
  • Frankfurt architecture guide with projects by u. a. Bernd Mey: "Gotha architecture guide , published by Ingeborg Flagge , ISBN 3-935243-28-6
  • Representation of u. a. "Gernwartstelle" (author: Mey / Pantzer / Schultz) and "open skyline (author: 10 o'clock Mey / Pantzer / Schmitt / Schreiner):" Uncertainty Principles / Unschaerferelationen " ISBN 3-932509-09-9 , page 99,175
  • Illustrated book on restaurant design with u. a. Maintower Restaurant Bar: "Restaurant Design 3", ISBN 3-87150-672-9
  • Representation of u. a. U60311 : "Metamorphoses", ISBN 3-8041-5086-1

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personal data
SURNAME Mey, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindau in Lake Constance