Jörg H. Gleiter

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Jörg H. Gleiter (born July 12, 1960 in Stuttgart ) is a German architect and architectural theorist and has been a professor of architectural theory at the Institute for Architecture at the Technical University of Berlin ( TU Berlin ) since 2012 . He is a member of the Academic Senate of the TU Berlin.

Life

Gleiter studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin, at the IUAV - Istituto universitario d'architettura di Venezia and at Columbia University in New York. His teachers include the architects Peter Eisenman , James Stirling and Mauro Lena. After working in the Eisenman Architects office and working in various architectural offices in Italy, the USA and Germany, Gleiter was a research assistant at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the University of Karlsruhe (KIT) from 1995 to 2002 . In 2002 the doctorate to Dr.-Ing. in architectural theory on the subject of "Critical Theory of Ornament" and in 2007 the habilitation (Dr.-Ing.habil.) on " Friedrich Nietzsche and the physiology of architecture" with the license to teach philosophy of architecture, both at the Bauhaus University Weimar .

Gleiter held several guest professorships: 2003 at the UIV - Università Internationale di Venezia, 2003–2005 at Waseda University in Tokyo, 2005–2007 at the Bauhaus University Weimar, 2005–2008 at the Free University of Bolzano and 2016 at Brown University in Providence (RI). In 2008, Gleiter was appointed professor of aesthetics at the Faculty of Design and Arts at the Free University of Bolzano. In 2012 he was appointed to the TU Berlin for the department of architectural theory. He is a member of the Academic Senate of the TU Berlin.

Research areas

  • Modern architecture theory (15th - 21st centuries)
  • Architectural philosophy with a focus on critical epistemology and aesthetics
  • Semiotics of architecture
  • Ornament theory
  • Friedrich Nietzsche

Prizes and awards

Memberships

  • Extraordinary member of the BDA - Association of German Architects
  • Member of the Berlin Chamber of Architects
  • Editor of the ArchitekturDenken series at Transcript Verlag Bielefeld
  • Member of the editorial board of the architecture magazine der architekt
  • Co-editor of the international internet journal for architectural theory Wolkenkuckucksheim
  • Member of the editorial board of the book series Collana Libri Primi (Universitá di Catania)

Fonts (selection)

  • Architecture and philosophy. Basics. Viewpoints. Perspectives. (Ed. With Ludger Schwarte), Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2464-9 .
  • Symptom design: from showing and showing oneself things. (Ed.), Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2268-3 .
  • Ornament Today. Digital, material, structural. (Ed.) Bozen-Bolzano: Universitätsverlag 2012, ISBN 978-88-6046-048-6 .
  • Prehistory of Modernity. On the theory of the history of architecture. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1534-0 .
  • The philosophical flaneur - Nietzsche and architecture. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2009, ISBN 978-3-8260-3758-0 .
  • Empathy and phenomenological reduction. Basic texts on architecture, design and art. (Ed. With Thomas Friedrich), Münster: LIT Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-9366-8 .
  • Return of the repressed. On the critical theory of ornament in architectural modernism. Weimar: Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität 2002, ISBN 3-86068-185-0 .
  • Nietzsche's labyrinths. (Ed. With Gerhard Schweppenhäuser), Weimar: Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität 2001, ISBN 3-86068-149-4 .
  • Search for cultural-philosophical traces. (Ed. With Gerhard Schweppenhäuser), Weimar: Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität 1999, ISBN 3-86068-131-1 .
  • To look away? Thinking ahead! On the Berlin memorial debate. (Ed. With Gerhard Schweppenhäuser), Weimar: Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität 1999, ISBN 3-86068-110-9 .
  • Paradoxes of Globalization. (Ed. With Gerhard Schweppenhäuser), Weimar: Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität 1999, ISBN 3-86068-099-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Architectural Theory , Head of Department: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jörg H. Gleiter. TU Berlin, accessed on January 6, 2019.
  2. ^ Wolkenkuckucksheim: editor and advisory board. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Gleiter, Jörg H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart