Gerd de Bruyn

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Gerd de Bruyn (born April 26, 1954 in Cologne ) is a German architectural theorist, university professor and writer.

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Gerd de Bruyn in Stuttgart, Literaturhaus, 2012

Life

After studying literature with Ralph-Rainer Wuthenow, musicology with Ludwig Finscher at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and a short interlude at the local University of Music and Performing Arts , Gerd de Bruyn attended the architecture class directed by Günter Bock the Städelschule . He then founded the AAM team of architects with Robert March and Berthold Ressler, which attracted attention in several exhibitions with unusual projects and drawings.

At the end of the 1980s he became editor-in-chief of the Baukultur magazine of the DAI (Association of German Architects and Engineers' Associations), a few years later the urban planner Thomas Sieverts persuaded him to do an apprenticeship and doctorate. In 1995 Gerd de Bruyn received his doctorate in sociology from the Technical University of Darmstadt under Helmut Dahmer and in 1997 took over the substitute professorship for urban planning theory at the KHB Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee. Previously, his sociopolitical commitment had led to the establishment of the future workshop living of the association Lobby for the homeless and poor in Frankfurt am Main.

In 2001 he was appointed to the chair for architectural theory at the University of Stuttgart , where he headed the Institute for Fundamentals of Modern Architecture and Design (IGmA) until 2018 . Since moving out of the Roman city (architect: Ernst May) Gerd de Bruyn has lived in Tübingen with his wife Annette Busche and daughter Charlotte. He is liaison lecturer at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and was a member of the board of directors of the International Center for Cultural and Technical Research (IZKT) from 2001 to 2014 , which he temporarily headed. Gerd de Bruyn is co-editor of the “Culture and Technology” series, sits on the advisory board of Edition ArchitekturDenken and on the editorial board of the BDA magazine Der Architekt . In 2012 he founded the SRMotorradmanufaktur with Andreas Gallo and a year later with Wolfgang Reif the Edition Staub.

Act

After journalistic, editorial and curatorial work for the DAI, the DWB and after projects with the architect Johannes Peter Hölzinger, Gerd de Bruyn switched to teaching in the 1990s. At the IGmA , in addition to the cultural and architectural theory content of the lectures and seminars, the focus is on conceptual design that Günter Bock introduced into the architecture theory of the Städelschule. De Bruyn retained the interdisciplinary character of the institute and expanded it by examining phenomena such as fashion and the challenges of new media, which are addressed in the institute's own publication series and the biannual English-language magazine Junk Jet. Further research areas were the consideration of the scientific character of architecture as well as the theory and practice of building with living plants (building botany ) in collaboration with Ferdinand Ludwig.

Honors

  • 2015: Abt Jerusalem Prize "for outstanding scientific contributions to the dialogue between the humanities, natural and technical sciences"

Publications (selection)

Scientific books
  • Theory of modern architecture. Programmatic texts. Edition Staub, script-Verlag, Neuss 2017.
  • with Wolf Reuter: The knowledge of architecture. From the closed circle to the open network . Edition ArchitekturDenken, transcript, Bielefeld 2011.
  • Ed. With Ferdinand Ludwig a. Hannes Schwertfeger: Living Buildings. Trainable structures . Culture and Technology series of the International Center for Culture and Technology Research (IZKT), University of Stuttgart 2009.
  • The encyclopedic architecture. To reformulate a universal science . Edition ArchitekturDenken, transcript, Bielefeld 2008.
  • with Uwe Fischer extra virgin = satellite pro 0.2, University of Stuttgart 2006.
  • Ed. With Stephan Trüby among others: 5 Codes. Architecture, Paranoia and Risk in Times of Terror (English Version: 5 Codes. Architecture, Paranoia and Risk in Times of Terror ). Birkhäuser, Berlin / Basel / Boston 2006.
  • with Uwe Fischer extra virgin = satellite pro 0.1, University of Stuttgart 2005.
  • Johannes Peter Hölzinger. House in Bad Nauheim, Opus 53 (German / English). Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart / London 2004.
  • Ed. With Stephan Trüby: architektur_theorie.doc. texts since 1960 . Birkhäuser, Berlin / Basel / Boston 2003.
  • Fish and Frog or The Self-Criticism of Modernity . “Bauwelt Fundamente”, Volume 124. Birkhäuser, Berlin / Basel / Boston 2001.
  • Contemporary Architecture in Germany 1970–1996. 50 buildings . Birkhäuser, Berlin / Basel / Boston 1997.
  • The dictatorship of the philanthropists. Development of urban planning from utopian thinking . "Bauwelt Fundamente", Volume 110. Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1996.
Literary works
  • with Alban Janson: The dangling stork. Stories and drawings. Edition Staub, script publishing house, Neuss 2019.
  • The mighty bunch. Narration (drawings by Alban Janson) . Edition Staub, script-Verlag, Neuss 2016.
  • The Artemisian Principle. Novel essay on music and architecture . Edition Staub, script-Verlag, Neuss 2014.
  • The arsonists of Dunkirk. An artist idyll from the Hessian province . Edition Staub, script-Verlag, Neuss 2014.
  • The gesture of the sublime or: post-communist manifesto . In: Pathos of the Gestural . The architect, issue 4/2013.
  • The competition of birds. An architectural thriller from the animal kingdom . In: Fabulous Architecture. Architectural stories and talking buildings . The Architect, 3/2012.
  • thinking: body, speaking: poe, poems & graphic texts . igmade.edition, University of Stuttgart 2010.
  • Semperiana. On the topicality of Gottfried Semper (1803-1879) . Igma, University of Stuttgart 2003.
Radio essays
  • Maria Antonia Walpurgis, the singing Amazon . Series: All-rounders from Goethe to Schlingensief, DLF “Essay & Discourse”, April 14, 2013.
  • Max Liebermann or: Retreat to the Refuge . Series: Art Citizens - Citizens' Art, DLF “Essay & Discourse”, June 27, 2010.
  • Johannes Brahms or: The longing for a new, fresh tone . Series: Art Citizens - Citizens' Art, DLF “Essay & Discourse”, April 25, 2010.
  • Dwindling new buildings - what is architecture in the post-industrial age? . DLF “Cultural Talk”, April 23, 2010.
  • The multidimensionality of the urban . Series: The idyllic city, DLF “Essay & Discourse”, April 19, 2009.
  • All people become gardeners. Architecture and horticulture . “The idyllic city” series, DLF “Essay & Discourse”, April 13, 2009.
  • Gates of happiness. The example of Augsburg . Series: “The idyllic city”, DLF “Essay & Discourse”, April 10, 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ history of the institute | Institute for Fundamentals of Modern Architecture and Design | University of Stuttgart. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bruyn, Gerd de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architectural theorist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne