Iris Reuther

Iris Reuther (* 1959 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia ) is a German architect , urban planner , university professor and, since 2013, Senate Building Director of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen .

Life

Reuther grew up in Mühlhausen in Thuringia. After graduating from high school and training as a landscape gardener, she studied architecture from 1979 to 1984 at the University of Architecture and Construction in Weimar . She finished her studies in 1984 with a thesis on “Living in the future”. Then she began studying research . With a dissertation on the history of the metropolitan apartment building from 1870/71 to the Weimar Republic, she was awarded a Dr.-Ing. PhD.

From 1987 to 1990 Reuther was a research assistant at the Institute for Urban Development and Architecture at the Building Academy of the GDR in East Berlin . A research project took her to Leipzig during the months of German reunification . In 1992 she founded the office for urban projects together with her colleague Marta Doehler and worked among other things for a redevelopment area in Leipzig- Connewitz . Her office dealt with transformation locations of the industrial age , with the urban renewal of city districts, with urban development concepts and land-use planning for urban redevelopment and development areas and with the supervision of competition projects and qualification procedures. In addition, urban research , exhibition projects, participation processes for larger urban redevelopment projects and integrated urban or district development concepts as well as moderation activities belonged to her tasks.

Reuther developed the urban planning concept for Ferropolis / Die Stadt aus Eisen and around 1996 the master plan Bitterfeld - Wolfen . She was then able to participate in an International Brownfield Exchange program on urban development projects in Toronto , Buffalo and New York City with realizations as part of a large residential construction program. After 2000, she and her office created an integrated district plan for the east of Leipzig.

In 2004 she became professor for urban and regional planning at the University of Kassel . She participated in the International Building Exhibition IBA Urban Redevelopment 2010 in Saxony-Anhalt . From 2009 she worked with her office Community projects koopstadt the three cities Bremen , Leipzig and Nuremberg , winning insights into the urban development of Bremen. In a research project on the regiopolises , she dealt with smaller metropolises and large cities. She is active in the design advisory board in Halle / Saale. In May 2013 she took up the position of Senate Building Director of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.

Iris Reuther is a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA) and the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning (DASL) and has been a member of its executive committee since 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IBA Hamburg GmbH: Prof. Dr. Iris Reuther. Vita.
2. ↑ Iris Reuther: Residential architecture and typical forms of living for the working class. A contribution to the history of the apartment building in the big city between 1870/71 and the early 20s of the 20th century as well as to research into the socio-cultural values ​​of workers' living. Weimar, Hochsch. f. Architecture and Construction, dissertation, 1989
3. ↑ Frank Simon-Ritz (Ed.): 50 years of dissertations at the University of Architecture and Building and the Bauhaus University Weimar (1955–2005). Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-86068-275-X , p. 168 f.
4. ↑ Bremen Center for Building Culture: "Views of Bremen" - An interview with the Senate Building Director.
5. ↑ Senate Press Office Bremen: Biography of Prof. Dr. Iris Reuther. (PDF file; 14 kB).