Eduard Führ

Eduard Heinrich Führ (born September 18, 1947 in Duisburg ) is a German architectural historian and theorist .

job

After graduating from high school, Führ did an apprenticeship as a businessman and then studied art history, philosophy, psychology and sociology at the Ruhr University in Bochum and at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . He received his doctorate in 1979 under Max Imdahl in Bochum . He then worked as a monument conservationist in Bochum and Lüneburg. From 1981 to 1990 he was a research assistant at the University of the Arts in Berlin (today: Berlin University of the Arts). In 1989 he completed his habilitation at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover . In 1990 he was brought to the University of Civil Engineering in Cottbus as a representative of a professorship for building history , art history and architectural theory . In 1993 he received a call to the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart (today: University of Technology Stuttgart). From 1994 to 2010 he headed the Theory of Architecture Chair at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus (today: Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg).

There, together with Riklef Rambow, he developed the master's degree in architecture education , which was offered from 2005 to 2012. In spring 2010 he was visiting professor at the University of New Orleans . He retired in 2010, but still accepted teaching positions at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg . In addition to his teaching and research activities, Führ was a curator of exhibitions. For example, he curated the architectural part of the exhibition The Principle of Hope. Aspects of utopia in the art and culture of the 20th century in the Kunstmuseum Bochum (1983/84) and the exhibition Heimat - What nobody was in (1985) in Berlin, Heidelberg and Mülheim. He has also worked as an appraiser and consultant in architectural and urban development projects.

In 1996, Führ founded the online journal Wolkenkuckucksheim and the Open Collection Theory of Architecture (OS | ThArch). Since then he has been editor of the magazine. He is also the founder, founder and chairman of the board of trustees of the Momus Foundation - promoting theory, science and criticism of architecture (spelling: momus | stiftung) and managing director of Modus Studio - a privately run institution for research and communication of architecture and the city (spelling : momus | studio).

Scientific work

In terms of architectural history, Führ has worked, for example, on the history of living, workers' living and New Towns ( Schwedt , Sabaudia , Colonial Williamsburg ). He has also dealt with the history of the theory of architecture. Methodologically, he assumes a phenomenologically oriented approach that considers the planning process as well as the implementation. He also addresses the political dimension of architecture. In terms of architectural theory, for example, he worked on the scientific theory of architecture. In doing so, he criticized the methodologically traditional architectural theory as a consideration of statements by architects or of texts on their buildings and expanded it into a transdisciplinary theory of architecture that extends into anthropology, psychology, sociology and philosophy and is oriented towards phenomenology. He also specifically dealt with the phenomena of function , use , home and living in architecture.

Fonts (selection)

• Architecture as a use value. On the practical knowledge of material culture ; Bochum 1979.
• “After the work is done, remain in the circle of your own”. Workers' living in the 19th century (together with D. Stemmrich); Wuppertal 1985.
• Eduard Führ (ed.): What nobody was in: home . Wiesbaden 1985.
• Modernization of the city. About the connection between urban planning, rule and everyday culture in Nordhorn ; Marburg 1989.
• On the topography and morphology of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp ; in: G. Morsch (ed.); Sachsenhausen concentration camp ; Oranienburg 1996.
• Ruhr area. Landscape and beauty ; in: It's also nice elsewhere ... Photographs from the Ruhr area 1989–99 (catalog of an exhibition at the Rheinisches Industriemuseum) ; Heidelberg 1999.
• “The bridge is always directed differently”. Heidegger's architectural functionalism and modern architecture ; in: Eduard Führ (ed.); Martin Heidegger's foundation of a phenomenology of architecture ; Münster et al. 2000, pp. 145-162.
• “Frankfurter Küche” and spaghetti carbonara. Functionality of architecture and art of use ; in: Expression and Usage, Issue 1, 2002, pp. 25–51
• Bring it up. A critique of architecture criticism (together with Ulrich Conrads and Christian Gänsehirt); Münster et al. 2003.
• Becoming Americans: Colonial Williamsburg as a Founding Myth ; in: Anke Köth et al. (ed.); (together with H.-G. Lippert); Building America. The creation of a new world ; Dresden 2005, pp. 93–121.
• Home and home ownership; in: Uwe Altrock et al. (ed.); Country love – country life. Rural areas in the mirror of social sciences and planning theory ; Planungsrundschau series, issue 12 , Berlin 2005, pp. 31–41.
• Home as a situation ; in: Institute for Landscape Management and Nature Conservation at the University of Hanover (ed.); The concept of home in sustainable development ; Weikersheim 2005, pp. 115-128.
• Town planning and propaganda in fascism: Sabaudia and the Agro Pontino ; in: Hans-Jörg Czech et al. (ed.); Art and propaganda ; Dresden 2007, pp. 96-105.
• Democracity. Urban planning in the USA in the 1930s ; in: Hans-Jörg Czech (ed.); Art and propaganda ; Dresden 2007, pp. 380-393
• Marienburg, in the summer of 1794: A brief note on a business trip ; in: Eduard Führ / Anna Teut (eds.); David Gilly Renovator of Building Culture ; Münster et al. 2008, pp. 159–164.
• Historicity in urban development using the example of the socialist residential town of Schwedt ; in: Frank Betger et al. (ed.); Paradigm shift and lines of continuity in GDR urban planning ; Erkner 2010, pp. 61–93.
• The poor rich man. Architectural work and architectural use ; in: Heidi Helmhold, Christina Threuter (eds.); Tear off or use ; Berlin 2012, pp. 144–160.
• Inside Out. Positions of classical architectural phenomenology ; in: Expression and Usage, Volume 11, Issue 11, 2012, pp. 32–58.
• Identity Politics - “Architect Professor Cesar Pinnau” as draftsman and designer. Bielefeld 2016.

Web links

• Literature by and about Eduard Führ in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Eduard Führ's dissertation on architecture as a use value. On the practical knowledge of material culture (Bochum 1979)
2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Former chair of Eduard Führ
3. ↑ Press release on BauNetz from July 19, 2005
4. ^ Internet site of Wolkenkuckucksheim
5. ↑ website from momus | studio