Bernd Schnieder (home ecologist)
Bernd Schnieder (* 1946 ; † January 22, 2011 ) was a German architect and residential ecologist.
Life
After studying architecture, sinology and social sciences in Karlsruhe and Berlin, Bernd Schnieder received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin in 1976 with a focus on architecture and urban planning and completed his habilitation in the field of residential ecology.
Schnieder worked on the Kuratorium Deutsche Altershilfe (KDA) in Cologne and advised municipalities, welfare associations and planning offices on program and construction planning as well as needs analyzes for old age aid projects.
In 1980 he was appointed Professor of Housing Construction and Housing (later renamed Housing Ecology ) at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . In doing so, he created a field of teaching and research that is unique in Germany and which he built up and established at the Institute for Economic Studies in Household and Consumption Research .
research
Bernd Schnieder did research on the topics of housing theories, human-environment relationships, socio-ecological issues, everyday geography, community and group housing, history of housing, housing for special needs groups, housing ethnology. He was a member of numerous international and national specialist societies such as the International Association for the study of People and their physical surrounding (IAPS) and the German Society for Housekeeping (DGH).
Fonts
- Assisted living. Situation, genesis and development tendencies of old-age housing provision. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
- (together with Barbara Freytag-Leyer): Wohnformen. Contributions to a future-oriented housing supply. German Society for Housekeeping / Expert Committee on Household and Living, Aachen 2004.
- Expert Committee on Household and Living of the German Society for Housekeeping eV (Ed.): Living. Facets of everyday life. Schneider-Verlag Hohengehren, Baltmannsweiler 2010, ISBN 3-631-43457-X .
Web links
- Literature by and about Bernd Schnieder in the catalog of the German National Library
- Prof. Schnieder ( memento of March 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Institute for Economics of Households and Consumption Research at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen
- Justus Liebig University Giessen: Obituary Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Schnieder (PDF file). In: Gießener Anzeiger, January 29, 2011, ( Memento from June 20, 2011 on WebCite )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schnieder, Bernd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and home ecologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 2011 |