Jürgen Mayer (architect)

Metropol Parasol , Seville

Moltke cafeteria in Karlsruhe

ADA1 office building in Hamburg

Danfoss Universe in Nordborg

Sarpi border post (Georgia-Turkey border)

Jürgen Hermann Mayer (born October 30, 1965 in Stuttgart ) is a German architect and artist. He is called Jürgen Mayer H. because it is easier to recognize. He runs the J. Mayer H. architectural office together with Andre Santer and Hans Schneider.

life and work

Mayer completed his studies in architecture at the University of Stuttgart , at the Cooper Union College in New York, and at Princeton University .

From 1996 he worked as an architect. He has taught at several universities such as the UdK Berlin , the Technical University of Munich , the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University , the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and Columbia University in New York. Mayer H. has received several prestigious awards and is represented with projects in various collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York and MoMA San Francisco. In February 2008 , the J. MAYER H. office was in fourth place in the BauNetz office ranking . From 2010 onwards, Mayer H. realized many projects in Georgia , supported by President Mikheil Saakashvili , such as the airport in Mestia , the border crossing in Sarpi and the rest stops along the new motorway near Gori and Locchini. Other international and national projects are the Metropol Parasol - the redesign of the Plaza de la Encarnacion in Seville , Spain; the courthouse in Hasselt , Belgium and the KA 300 anniversary pavilion, built for the 300th anniversary of the city of Karlsruhe . In 2003, Mayer H. received the internationally renowned Mies van der Rohe Prize for Emerging Architect for the new construction of the town house in Ostfildern .

Important works (selection)

• Stadt.haus (Stadthalle Scharnhauser Park, Ostfildern ), 1998–2002, exhibited in the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Venice Biennale 2004, Arsenal and in the German Pavilion
• Rotor Penthouse , privately owned, Denmark, 2004–2006
• Moltke cafeteria , Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences , 2004–2007
• Metropol Parasol : Redesign of the Plaza de la Encarnación, Seville , Spain, 2004–2011
• ADA1 , office building, Hamburg , 2005–2007
• Danfoss Universe , Nordborg , Denmark, 2005-2007
• Dupli.Casa , private house, Benningen am Neckar , 2005–2008
• S11 , office building, Hamburg , 2007–2009.
• Highway Rest Stop 1 and 2 , Gori and Lochini , Georgia , 2009–2011.
• Sarpi border checkpoint , Georgia, 2010–2011
• Airport building (tower and terminal) Queen Tamar Airport, Mestia , Upper Svaneti , Georgia, 2010.
• JOH3 , Apartmenthaus Johannisstrasse 3, Berlin , Germany, 2009–2011
• Pier Sculpture , Lazika , Georgia, 2012
• Hasselt Courthouse , in collaboration with a2o-architecten and Lensºass architecten, Hasselt, Belgium, 2005–13
• Schaustelle , space for experiments, Munich , 2012–2013
• Sonnenhof , office and residential complex, Jena , 2008–2014
• FOM , Düsseldorf, university building, Düsseldorf , 2012–2015
• Pavilion KA300 , temporary pavilion, Schlossgarten (Karlsruhe) , 2014–2015

Awards (selection)

• Mies van der Rohe Prize 2003 "Emerging Architect"
• Holcim Awards 2005 Bronze Europe for sustainable architecture
• Audi Urban Future Award 2010
• red dot design award 2012 for Metropol Parasol
• Finalist European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture 2013 for Metropol Parasol

Exhibitions (selection)

• Vitra Design Museum 2007: Housewarming MyHome
• San Francisco Museum 2009: Patterns of Speculation
• La Biennale di Venezia , Italian Pavilion 2009: Pre.Text / Vor.Wand
• Global Design, Museum für Gestaltung 2010: Pre.Text / Vor.Wand
• Showroom Euroboden Munich 2010: Re.Flecks
• Berlinische Galerie 2011: RAPPORT. Experimental spatial structures .
• Art Institute of Chicago 2012: Jumble
• Galerie Eigen + Art Berlin 2013: Black.See
• Lugadero 2014: Retraro Robot
• Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: NAP GAP
• Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture 2014: Border Warehouse
• Incite gallery Bangalore 2015: the work of J. Mayer H.
• Beijing Design Week 2014: Exhibition Design +
• Istanbul Biennale Exhibition 2015: FIN-GER
• Ecola exhibition 2015: hands-on
• Haus am Waldsee 2016: Structures. Architecture as urban sculpture

literature

• Aedes Gallery and Architecture Forum (eds.), Kristin Feireiss , Hans-Jürgen Commerell: J. Mayer H., surphase architecture. (Exhibition catalog). Aedes, Berlin 2002.
• Cristina Steingräber (Ed.): Metropol parasol . State Museums, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-88609-519-3 .
• Henry Urbach (Ed.): J. Mayer H. Hatje Cantz , Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2223-0 .
• Neeraj Bhatia, Jürgen Mayer H. (Eds.): Arium . Hatje Cantz , Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2540-8 .
• Suh Kyong won (Ed.): DD 19 Activators . DAMDI Architecture Publisher, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 89-91111-21-1 .
• Berlinische Galerie (ed.): Rapport , 2011.
• Andres Lepik, Andre Santer (eds.): Metropol parasol . Hatje Cantz , Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-2837-9 .
• Jürgen Mayer H., Cristina Steingräber (Ed.): Confusion . Hatje Cantz , Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-2837-9 .
• Jürgen Mayer H. (Ed.): A.WAY , Trademark Publishing 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813228-5-9 .
• Wilko Hoffmann (Ed.): Could Should Would . Hatje Cantz , Ostfildern 2015, ISBN 978-3-7757-4053-1 .

Movie

• Jürgen Mayer H. The architect of the curves. (Alternative title: J. Mayer H. - Architecture as Adventure. ) Documentary film, Germany, 2011, 26 min., Script and director: Claudius Gehr, production: planetfilm, NDR , arte , first broadcast: December 16, 2012 on arte, summary by absolut media and from arte . The documentary ends
  shortly before the completion of the Metropol Parasol in Seville, which the film is mainly about.

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Mayer-Hermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the architectural office J. MAYER H.
• Jürgen Mayer (architect). In: arch INFORM .
• Literature by and about Jürgen Mayer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait german architects
• Interview with Jürgen Mayer
• Portrait of the works of the J. MAYER H.
• Spiegel.de: "Spectacular architecture in Georgia: The architectural miracles of Mr. Mayer from Berlin"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Swantje Karich: Gallery Weekend Berlin Education and Building , FAZ from April 27, 2013
2. ↑ jmayerh.de: Imprint
3. ↑ Benjamin Bidder: Spectacle architecture in Georgia: The building miracles of Mr. Mayer from Berlin - Spon, Oct. 2013
4. ^ Sarpi Border Checkpoint by J. Mayer H Architects. on: detail-online.com , November 16, 2011.
5. ↑ From the fax directly to the concrete mixer in FAZ of October 16, 2014, page R 5
6. ↑ Metropol Parasol - red dot award: product design 2012 - red dot: best of the best ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: red-dot.org , July 7, 2012. 
7. ↑ http://www.berlinischegalerie.de/ausstellungen-berlin/rueckblick/2011/j-mayer-h/
8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.