Friedrich von Borries

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Friedrich von Borries (2013)

Friedrich von Borries (born August 21, 1974 in Berlin ) is a German architect , curator , design theorist and writer .

Life

Friedrich von Borries was a member of the Young Liberals for six months at the age of 18 . He studied architecture at the University of the Arts Berlin , the ISA St. Luc Bruxelles and at the University of Karlsruhe , where he received his dissertation in Markenstadt in 2004 . Marketing strategies in urban areas with Günther Uhlig . The essayist work was published in the same year under the title Wer hat Angst vor Niketown? / Who's Afraid of Niketown ?.

From 2001 to 2003 he taught at the Technical University of Berlin , from 2002 to 2005 he was involved in project work at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation . From 2003 to 2009 he ran the raumtaktik office in Berlin together with Matthias Böttger . From 2007 to 2008 he was a visiting scholar at the ETH Zurich and MIT Cambridge as well as a visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg . Von Borries was also a Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College , London . From 2007 to 2012 he was a member of the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy for Natural Scientists Leopoldina.

In 2008 von Borries was general commissioner for the German contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale . Since 2009 he has been professor of design theory at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and heads the Friedrich von Borries project office in Berlin. For the online edition of the art magazine Monopol he writes the monthly column Unlaid Eggs , for which he invites creative people to lunch.

Curatorial activity (selection)

  • 2018: ehrlichmonument - an installation , DAZ - German Architecture Center, Berlin.
  • 2018: Practice room for criticism , Kampnagel, Hamburg.
  • 2018–2019: Politics of Design, Design of Politics, Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum, Munich.

Novels

Publications (selection)

  • Who's Afraid of Niketown? episode publishers, Rotterdam 2004, ISBN 978-90-5973-015-1 ; New edition 2012: Who is afraid of Niketown - Nike urbanism, branding and the branded city of tomorrow, Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-12652-3 .
  • with Matthias Böttger (ed.): Fan shop of globalization. Federal Agency for Political Education , Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-89331-684-1
  • with SP Walz & Matthias Böttger (eds.): Space Time Play , Birkhäuser, Berlin Boston Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-8414-2
  • with Jens-Uwe Fischer: Socialist Cowboys. The Wild West of East Germany. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-12528-1 - Films about the book
  • with Matthias Böttger (Ed.): Updating Germany. 100 projects for a better future. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2262-9
  • with Matthias Böttger & Florian Heilmeyer (eds.): Better future? In search of the spaces of tomorrow. Merve, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-88396-255-9
  • with Matthias Böttger & Florian Heilmeyer (eds.): TV-Towers. 8,559 Meters Politics and Architecture. Jovis, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86859-024-1
  • The freedom of the crocodiles. Merve, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-88396-274-0
  • with Jens-Uwe Fischer: home container. German prefabricated houses in Israel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-12593-9 - material for the book
  • Climate capsules. Conditions for survival in the disaster. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-12615-8
  • (Ed.): Berlin Atlas of Paradoxal Mobility. Merve, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-88396-304-4
  • with Christian Hiller & Wilma Renfordt: Climate Art Research. Merve, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-88396-299-3
  • with Christian Hiller, Daniel Kerber, Friederike Wegner, Anna-Lena Wenzel (eds.): Glossary of Interventions , Merve Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-88396-323-5
  • with Jesko Fezer (Ed.): Because design changes the world .... Gestalten Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89955-475-5
  • with Jens-Uwe Fischer: The Berlin world improvement machine. A story of continual failure. Merve, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-88396-343-3
  • with Moritz Ahlert & Jens-Uwe Fischer (ed.): The Berlin World Improvement Machine. The reconstruction of an abstract imagination. Merve, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-88396-344-0
  • with Christian Hiller, Friederike Wegner, Anna-Lena Wenzel (Eds.): Urbane Interventionen Hamburg, Merve Verlag, Berlin, 2014, ISBN 978-3-88396-332-7
  • with Roland Nachtigäller (ed.): Museum Unplugged - A self-questioning. Marta Herford, Herford 2015, ISBN 978-3-938433-23-2
  • World Design - A Political Design Theory. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-12734-6
  • with Moritz Ahlert (Ed.): Mexibility. We are in the city we cannot leave it, editorial RM + Goethe-Institut Mexico, Mexico City 2017, ISBN 978-84-17047-07-8
  • with Mara Recklies: IUI. Propaedeutics of Intervention , Merve, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96273-007-9 .
  • with Hans-Joachim Lenger: Metastases of War. Merve, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96273-005-5 .
  • with Jakob Schrenk: practice criticism. One manual: for everyone - from beginners to professionals , kursbuch.edition, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-96196-035-4 .
  • with Angelika Nollert u. a. (Ed.): Friedrich von Borries. Politics of Design, Design of Politics , Walther König, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-96098-467-2 .
  • with Benjamin Kasten: City of the Future - Paths to Globalopolis , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-596-70432-3 .

Prices (selection)

  • 2006, Prize of the Körber Foundation, 3rd place, for the board game "BürgerMeister. A strategy game for shrinking cities", together with Matthias Böttger
  • 1998, Student Prize from the Körber Foundation, 2nd place for the installation "Chat-Stop", together with Gesa Glück, Tobias Neumann and Andrè Schmidt
  • Prices for the Design Display exhibition series and / or the On Display magazine :
  • 2017, DDC Gute Gestaltung 2017, silver award in the space / architecture category
  • 2017, Iconic Award Prize in the Architecture: Exhibition category
  • 2017, red dot Communication Design, award in the category Publishing & Print Media
  • 2017, German Design Award, Prize in the Fair and Exhibition category
  • 2017, Good Design Award (The Chicago Athenaeum)

Web links

Commons : Friedrich von Borries  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Moritz von Uslar: Friedrich von Borries. In: The time . January 30, 2014, accessed April 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ The brand city. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Unlaid eggs. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ http://www.ddc.de/de/wettbewerb/gute-gestaltung-17/raum/design-display.php
  5. ↑ https://red-dot.de/cd/de/online-exhibition/work/?code=05-00138&y=2017&c=246&a=0
  6. ↑ http://www.german-design-award.com/die-gewinner/galerie/detail/16732-design-display.html
personal data
SURNAME Borries, Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and curator
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin