Finn Geipel

Finn Geipel (born November 23, 1958 in Stuttgart ) is a German architect and urbanist . He is co-founder of the architecture and urban planning office LIN with offices in Berlin and Paris .

Life

Geipel studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart from 1981 to 1987 . During his studies, he founded the LABFAC group of architects and artists in Stuttgart in 1983 together with Bernd Hoge and Jochen Hunger . In 1987 LABFAC Paris was founded with Nicolas Michelin.

In 2001, Finn Geipel opened the architecture and urban planning office LIN together with the Italian architect Giulia Andi . LIN's work encompasses current topics such as flexibility, openness, adaptation and context, which are examined in the context of architecture and urbanism.

In addition to visiting professorships at the École Spéciale d'Architecture Paris , the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura Barcelona , the Columbia University New York City and at MIT Boston-Cambridge, he has been a full professor of design and building science at the Technical University of Berlin since 2000 . The department is called LIA. The laboratory is mainly concerned with research and teaching related to different building typologies. LIA sees itself as a permanent research platform of LIN.

Since 2012, Finn Geipel has been a member of the Cluster of Excellence "Image Knowledge Design - An Interdisciplinary Laboratory" at the Humboldt University of Berlin . The cluster connects 22 different disciplines that form a sustainable scientific research platform.

He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Atelier International du Grand Paris (AIGP).

In 2010 he was named Knight of the Legion of Honor (“Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur”) for his urban development projects and realizations in France .

Buildings and projects (selection)

• Flexible roofing of the arena, Nîmes, France (1989)
• École Nationale d'Arts Décoratifs, Limoges, France (1990–1994)
• Théâtre de Cornouaille, Quimper, France (1991–1998)
• Exhibition space Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris, France (2003)
• Alvéole 14, Transformation Submarine Bunker, St. Nazaire, France (2003-2007)
• Syn chron, installation Carsten Nicolai, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany (2005)
• Cité du Design, St. Etienne, France (2004–2009)
• Grand Paris Métropole Douce, Paris, France (2008–2009)
• Studio building Pajol, Paris, France (2008–2012)

Awards (excerpt)

• 2010: Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur
• 2006: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres

Publications (selection)

• Jac Fol: Labfac: Finn Geipel, Nicolas Michelin Laboratory for Architecture Center Georges Pompidou, 1998 Paris, ISBN 2-85850-948-4
• Wilhelm Klauser, Catherine Métais-Bürend, Isabelle Taudière: LABFAC In: L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui n ° 327 April 2000, Paris
• Finn Geipel, Giulia Andi: Cité du Design - Saint-Étienne Editions Jean-Michel Place, 2006 Paris, ISBN 2-85893-880-6
• Finn Geipel, Giulia Andi, équipe LIN: Grand Paris métropole douce: Hypothèses sur le paysage post-Kyoto Ed. Nouvelles éditions Jean-Michel Place, 2009 Paris, ISBN 2-7010-1548-0

Web links

• Office website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Joseph Hanimann: Finn Geipel . As of December 3, 2012
2. ^ The Berlage Institute: Finn Geipel
3. ↑ The big plan in the DBZ
4. ↑ City of the Future - in the House of the Present at detail.de
5. ^ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6. ↑ Technische Universität Berlin, Architecture Faculty ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2012 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.  
7. ↑ LIA ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ^ Image knowledge design. An interdisciplinary laboratory
9. ↑ French Embassy in Berlin: Architect and urbanist Finn Geipel appointed Knight of the Legion of Honor ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.