Hermann Schlimme (architectural historian)

Hermann Georg Eckhard Schlimme (* 1969 ) is a German architectural historian .

Life

He studied architecture (focus on architectural history, monument preservation), history and art history in Braunschweig , Edmonton and Florence . In 1994 he passed the diploma in architecture and in 1995 the master’s intermediate examination in art history. In 1995 he was accepted into the graduate support of the state of Lower Saxony and became a research assistant at the TU Braunschweig . After completing his doctorate in Braunschweig in 1998 on Roman-Early Modern church facades (summa cum laude), he was an architectural assistant and research assistant at the from 1998 to 2002Bibliotheca Hertziana , Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome. In 2001 he received a Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting Fellowship. Since 2002 he has been scientifically leading the research project “The History of Knowledge of Architecture” on the part of the Bibliotheca Hertziana (cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science , Berlin). In 2006 he received the Edoardo Benvenuto Prize / Premio Edoardo Benvenuto. From 2006 to 2014 he had lectureships (university lecturer) at the Vienna University of Technology . He is a member of the Scientific Committees of the “International Congresses on Construction History” (Cambridge 2006, Cottbus 2009, Paris 2012, Chicago 2015, Brussels 2018). From 2007 to 2016 he was Research Associate at the Bibliotheca Hertziana and co-editor of the scientific journal “Construction History. International Journal of the Construction History Society ”(peer-reviewed) and member of the Society's Board of Directors (since 2013). Since 2013 he has been involved in the cooperation project with the Beijing Tsinghua Institute for Digitization (THID, Tsinghua University , Beijing) on ​​the western buildings in the old Yuanmingyuan Summer Palace in Beijing. After his habilitation in 2015 in the subject of "Architectural History" at the Vienna University of Technology with a thesis on practical building knowledge in architectural culture in early modern and modern Italy, he taught as a visiting professor at the Vienna University of Technology from 2014 to 2016. Since 2017 he has been teaching as a professor for building and urban history at the TU Berlin .

His main research interests are early modern architecture in Italy and its effects outside of Italy, the history of knowledge of architecture, the history of building technology, the history of architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Web links

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hermann Schlimme