Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm

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Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm (* 1940 in Berlin ) is a German freelance architecture critic and urban planner .

Career

After studying theology , philosophy and history in Berlin, Marburg , Tübingen , Zurich , Göttingen and Paris , he received his doctorate in 1968 in Münster for Dr. theol. This was followed by teaching assignments at the pedagogical university in Berlin as well as assistance at the architecture faculty of the TU Berlin . Since 1975 he has also been a member of the editorial board of the journals Ästhetik & Kommunikation and Arch + and has also become a member of the International of War Resisters (IDK).

Planning activity

From 1987 he worked as an urban planner in Kassel, Vienna and Berlin. In 1991/1992, together with Bernhard Strecker , he developed the structural plan for Friedrichstadt , Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder / Berlin-Mitte for the Berlin building authorities . In 1993, the structural plan for the reconstruction of the Lower New Town of Kassel , the Eberswalde urban development plan for LEG Brandenburg and smaller plans in various cities, also with Bernhard Strecker, followed. From 1996 to 1999, in collaboration with Bernd Albers , he participated in the planning work for the inner city of Berlin of the historical center.

Since 1998 he has been increasingly concerned with problems of local and communal self-administration , in connection with land policy, administrative reform and communal finances .

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Theory of Artistic Work. An investigation based on the situation of the fine arts in the capitalist countries. Frankfurt am Main 1974.
  • Street slaughter - history, demolition and broken survival of Admiralstrasse. Kreuzberg, Nishen. 1984, ISBN 3-88940-104-X .
  • Building alignments. Berlin 1987.
  • with Ludovica Scarpa : walls and openings. Berlin 1987.
  • The missed city. Kassel 1989.
  • The third city. Building blocks of a new founding agreement. Frankfurt 1993.
  • The salvation of architecture from itself. Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1995.
  • Instructions for urban redevelopment. Frankfurt 1996.
  • Local self-government. Possibility and limits of direct democracy. Wiesbaden 2004.
  • The Great Jüdenhof. A place in Berlin and the relationship between Jews and Christians in the German city of the Middle Ages. Lukas, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936872-46-5 .
  • The house at the dog bridge. Berlin 2008.
  • Beelitz's miraculous blood. Lukas, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86732-049-8 .
  • Area costs and municipal financial autonomy. For a theory of the city economy. Detmold Rohn. 2010, ISBN 978-3-939486-46-6 .
  • Perleberg in the Middle Ages. Urban development and history. Lukas, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86732-083-2 .
  • St. Jakobi in Perleberg. The building history. Lukas, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86732-084-9 .
  • The Berlin town house. History and typology. 1200-2010. DOM publishers, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86922-117-5 .
  • East west center. Walks through the newer Berlin. edition.fotoTAPETA, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940524-14-0 .
  • Local democracy and the European house. Roadmap for an Open Republic. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3642-0 .

Web links

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  1. ↑ Aesthetics & Communication:
  2. ↑ Berlin houses
  3. ^ Project development company Unterneustadt GmbH
  4. ↑ Introduction to the inner city plan. Archived from the original on June 23, 2009 ; Retrieved September 1, 2012 .
  5. ^ Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm - official personal website - biography
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann-Axthelm, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architecture critic and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin