Jan Pieper

Jan Pieper (born May 24, 1944 in Lüdinghausen / Westphalia) is a German architect of historical building research , university lecturer and author.

Life

Jan Pieper grew up as the son of the glass painter Vincenz Pieper and his wife Christine, b. Bad, in Angelmodde near Munster. After graduating from high school in 1964 at Johann-Conrad-Schlaun-Gymnasium , he studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin , moved to RWTH Aachen in 1968 after completing his intermediate diploma and a trip to Southeast Asia , where he graduated from Gottfried Böhm's chair in 1970 . He then worked practically in England and from 1970 to 1972 was a research student in the postgraduate program of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and a scholarship from the British Council in the postgraduate course in architectural history at the University of London . Here he researched the neo- Palladianism in British India 1756-1853, in particular on a field stay in India in 1972/73 about the Palladian reception in British-Indian colonial architecture . After working at the Gottfried Böhm architecture office in Cologne , Pieper was his scientific assistant at the chair for urban planning and engineering in the architecture department of the RWTH Aachen from 1974 to 1976, after doing field research in 1978 on culturally specific concepts of space, architecture and city pre-colonial India and worked as a private lecturer at the Institute for Art History until 1983. From 1983 to 1988 Pieper taught as a professor for building history at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences , from 1988 to 1993 as a professor for architecture and urban history at the TU Berlin and from 1993 to 2013 as a professor at the chair for building history and monument preservation at the RWTH Aachen. From 1996 to 1999 he was dean of the Faculty of Architecture and has been a Senator at RWTH Aachen University since 1996 and a member of the Senate Commission and Chairman of the Faculty Committee for Structure, Research and Young Academics since 1999.

research

Building and inventory as a scientific method of architecture and building research distinguish Pieper as a significant representative of the Aachen school . During long stays in South and Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s, he conducted research on comparative architectural history (Palladianism and colonial architecture); From 1982 Pieper researched the Italian Renaissance - in particular the expansion of Pienza into an ideal city by Pope Pius II , and Sabbioneta , another ideal Renaissance city in Lombardy - and the reception of the Italian Renaissance north of the Alps, especially in France. From 1995 to 1999 he was editor of the magazine Daidalos for architecture, art and culture.

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  Pienza location

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  Pienza

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  City model Pienza, model piazza with cathedral

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  Pienza, Piazza Pio

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  Pienza Cathedral

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  Vault cathedral

Fonts (selection)

• Three Cities of Nepal , Oliver, P. (Ed.) Shelter, Sign and Symbol, London 1975, pp. 52-69
• The rediscovery of streets and blocks , Frankfurter Hefte 3/1975, pp. 46–52
• The three cities in the Nepal valley , Bauwelt 30/1976, pp. 925–935
• The London “Coal Hole Plates” , Bauwelt 3/1976, pp. 98–100
• The Anglo-Indian station, Hindu city culture and colonial city life in the 19th century as a confrontation between Eastern and Western spiritual worlds . (Dissertation Aachen 1974), Volume 1, Antiquitates Orientales, Bonn 1977
• The monastery settlements of the Yellow Church in Ladakh , Bauwelt 23/1977, pp. 756–761
• The Monastic Settlements of the Yellow Church in Ladakh. Central Places in a Nomadic Habitat, Geojournal 54/1977, pp. 41-54
• Arboreal Art and Architecture in India , Art and Archeology Research Papers, 12/1977, pp. 47-54
• Ritual Movement and Architectural Space , Art and Archeology Research Papers, Monograph 2, 1977, pp. 82-91
• South Indian city rituals: Paths to urban geography and architectural theory understanding of the Indian pilgrimage city, city and ritual, Darmstadt 1977, pp. 82–91
• The museum as a district. On the public of a public building , Frankfurter Hefte 9/1979, pp. 42–52
• A Pilgrim's Map of Benares. Notes on Codification in Hindu Cartography , Geojournal 3/1979, pp. 215-218
• Water in Hindu Urban Architecture, Art and Archeology Research Papers 15/1979, pp. 47-56
• India. Structural forms and urban design of a constant tradition (with Nils Gutschow). Dumont art travel guide, Cologne 1978
• The Cornières of the Bastide Monpazier , Bauwelt 13/1979, pp. 526–533
• Architekturmuseum - Architekturvermittlung, Kunstforum Vol. 38 (with Walter Grasskamp), Mainz 1980
• Ritual Space in India. Studies in Architectural Anthropology, London 1980
• South Indian Ceremonial Chariots , Art and Archeology Research Papers 16/1980, pp. 1-11
• A Note on the South Indian Ceremonial Float, Art and Archeology Research Papers 16/1980, p. 24
• The Moffussil Environment. Elements of Colonial Architecture and Settlement in Up-Country India, series of publications by the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University, Heidelberg 1980, pp. 77-92
• European Tombs in the Moghul Taste. Notes on Style and Ornamentation of Anglo-Indian Sepulchral Architecture, Lotus International 26/1980, pp. 90-96
• Stupa Architecture of the Upper Indus Valley, series of publications by the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University, Vol. 55, Heidelberg 1980, pp. 127-136
• Windarchitektur, Bauwelt 35/1981, pp. 1495–1501
• Mimesis and metamorphoses of architecture, excerpts from the type theory of the Quatremère de Quincy, Bauwelt 8/1981, pp. 271–279
• L'habitat Mofussil; Espace et architecture dans l'Inde britannique, urbi (Art, histoire et ethnologie des villes) VI, 1982, pp. 47–56
• Stone trees and artificial branches. The Gothic Theories of James Hall (1761–1832) , Bauwelt 10/1982, pp. 328–333 (reprinted in: Graefe, Rainer: Zur Geschichte des Konstruierens, Stuttgart 1989)
• Indian red, Indian yellow. Editing and conception of Bauwelt 28/1983 on modern architecture in India
• The Impuls to Adorn, Studies in Traditional Indian Architecture , Bombay 1982
• Architectural moments, Holländer, H .; Thomsen, W. (Ed.): Moment and Time, Studies on Time Structure and Time Metaphorics, Art and Science, Darmstadt 1984, pp. 165–174
• Place, memory, architecture. About the Genius Loci. Editing and conception of Kunstforum 69, Cologne 1984
• Genius Loci. Architectural designs of an ancient Roman idea, location, memory, editing and conception of Kunstforum 69, Cologne 1984, pp. 38–59
• Gardens of Memory. The Sacro Bosco of Bomarzo , place, memory. Editing and conception of Kunstforum 69. Cologne 1984, pp. 91–97
• The assumed identity. Antikenkonstruktion in the Havellandschaft of Berlin classicism, place, remembrance Editing and conception of Kunstforum 69, Cologne 1984, pp. 118–135
• Hyderabad, A Qur'anic Paradise in Architectural Metaphors, Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Center, Rome 1984, pp. 46-51
• Mount Athos in gigantic form. Meanings of the anthropomorphic in the builder Dinocrates' wooing for the favor of Alexander the Great, Aus dem Osten des Alexanderreiches, Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Klaus Fischer, Cologne 1984, pp. 57–65
• Arche and Ark, forms and aspects of the concept of the "Wandering House", Bauwelt 33/1985, pp. 1278–1297
• Zagarolo . Studies on the architecture of a Roman baronal city of Mannerism, Aachen 1987
• Pienza. Over de omgang met de natuur in de stedebouw by de vroege Renaissance, Forum 30/1, 1986, pp. 44–50 as well as in: Proceedings of the International Seminar “Ecology in Design”, TH Delft 13. – 17. December 1980
• Similarities, mimesis and metamorphoses in architecture, catalog of the exhibition in Haus Lange, Krefeld, May 27 - July 20, 1986
• Backgrounds. The meanings of architecture in exotic painting , catalog of the exhibition “Painted Architecture from Seven Centuries”: “The Dream of Space” in the Kunsthalle Nürnberg from September 13th - November 23rd, 1986, pp. 135–150, p. 393– 404
• Sezincote. A west-east Divan, Daidalos 19/1986, pp. 54–74
• Pienza . The stage for a humanistic synopsis of opposites, Bauwelt 45/1986, pp. 1710–1732
• An unlicensed manor. Haus Rüschhaus near Münster by Johann Conrad Schlaun , Daidalos 22/1986, pp. 68–71
• Make landscapes see. The Piazza of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger in Pitigliano , Daidalos 22/1986, pp. 104-107
• Editorial Daidalos 23/1987, p. 15
• The nature of the hanging gardens , Daidalos 23/1987, pp. 94-109
• The labyrinthine. About the idea of ​​the hidden, puzzling and difficult in the history of architecture . (Habilitation thesis RWTH Aachen, 1983) Writings of the German Architecture Museum on the history of architecture and the theory of architecture. Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1987
• Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent , together with: Fischer, K .; Jansen, M .; Darmstadt 1987
• Three early Renaissance architectural prospectuses . Daidalos 25/1988, pp. 42-50
• A night garden in Rajasthan , Daidalos 27/1988, pp. 112–115
• Patrons of Art. The Mughals and the Medici , ed. By Dalu Jones, Marg 39.1 (1988), pp. 69-90
• Architectural topos research . Bauwelt 3/1989, pp. 78–81
• Jerusalem churches. Small medieval architecture based on the model of the Holy Sepulcher . Bauwelt 3/1989, pp. 82-101
• Architecture grows from the stones. Metaphors of transformation at the Palace of Pius II, Pienza. Daidalos 31/1989, pp. 76-87
• The ideal city of Pienza. Five bodies in the game of geometry. Planned cities of the modern age. Catalog of the exhibition in the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, pp. 95–111, Karlsruhe 1990
• Semilasso's last world course. Prince Pückler-Muskau's death grove in Branitz. Daidalos 38/1990, pp. 60-79
• The Château de Maulnes in Burgundy . Daidalos 41/1991, pp. 38-53
• Venice. An attempt to make water habitable through art. Stadtbauwelt 36/1991, pp. 1884–1891
• Arboreal Art and Architecture in India. Vatsyayan , Kapila (Ed.) Concepts of Space, New Delhi 1991, pp. 333–341
• Saint Didier in Asfeld-la-Ville. A baroque brick manifesto . Daidalos 43/1992, pp. 62-67
• Narcissus houses. Architecture based on the image and parable of man. Daidalos 45/1992, pp. 30-47
• The Arkanum Pfaueninsel . Daidalos 46/1992, pp. 78-91
• Lo Château de Maulnes in Borgogna. Jones, Dalu (ed.), Il teatro delle acque, Rome 1992, pp. 125-139
• The model of the cathedral in the hand of Charlemagne. A late Gothic interpretation of the Aachen choir hall as "Capella Vitrea" (1414/1430), in: Jansen, Michael; Winands, Klaus, Festschrift for Günter Urban, Rome 1992, pp. 129–150
• Stourhead. An English envy. Classically inspired places, paths and vedutas in the sketchbook by Frederik Magnus Piper (1779), Peter Joseph Lenné and European landscape and garden art in the 19th century (6th Greifswald Romantic Conference) Greifswald 1992, pp. 37–47
• Hyderabad. The fall of the world mountain. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Features from April 28, 1992
• Periphery. An editor's interview. Daidalos 50/1993, pp. 24-37
• The Gothic treasure house of imperial regalia. Karlstejn Castle near Prague. Daidalos 53/1994, pp. 78-81
• The machine in the interior. Ludwig Persius' steam engine house in Babelsberger Park. Daidalos 53/1994, pp. 104-115
• Mofussil - the Indian hinterland. Elements of colonial architecture and settlement in India. Daidalos 54/1994, pp. 112-123
• Editorial Daidalos 55/1995, pp. 22-23
• “Source temple, cattle trough, wash house in the manner of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux”. Daidalos 55/1995, pp. 56-65
• Bagno Vignoni . Daidalos 55/1995, pp. 66-69
• Palladio bridges. Daidalos 57/1995, pp. 88-93
• Editorial Daidalos 58/1995, pp. 20-21
• The garden of the Holy Sepulcher in Görlitz. Daidalos 58/1995, pp. 38-43
• The beginning at heart. The rock core of the Lamayuru monastery. Jan Pieper; Amandus Vanquaille; Hilde Vets. Daidalos 58/1995, pp. 72-77
• “The shadow of Pius II.” The calendar architecture of the cathedral church of Pienza . archithese 1.97, magazine and series of publications for architecture, pp. 19–24
• Tai Shan. A pillar of the world structure. Daidalos 63/1997, pp. 78-83
• Pienza. The draft of a humanistic worldview. Stuttgart / London 1997.
• The Château de Maulnes in Burgundy, documentation and construction survey, catalog for the exhibition in the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, June 4 - August 29, 1999
• The atrium. Bauwelt 1/00, pp. 22–23
• Pienza. The progetto di una visione umanistica del mondo. Stuttgart / London, 2000
• Knowledge store, temple of knowledge, library of the chair for building history at RWTH Aachen University . Bauwelt 27–28 / 03, pp. 34–36
• Example Sabloneta quadrata, the Roman basis of the city map of Sabbioneta. Bauwelt 40–41 / 05, pp. 33–45
• The Château de Maulnes and Mannerism in France, Aachen Library, Volume 5, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin, 2006
• Maulnes-en-Tonnerrois. A construct from the spirit of mannerism, Edition Axel Menges, 2007

Web links

• Biography on geymueller.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry on the RWTH Aachen website ( memento of the original from March 25, 2018 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. 
2. ^ Farewell lecture by Jan Pieper , entry on the RWTH Aachen website
3. ^ TU Berlin: Pieper employee. Retrieved March 24, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Sebastian Redecke: Research with Jan Pieper. Bauwelt Heft 45, 2013, accessed on March 24, 2018 (German). 
5. ^ Karl-Heinz Hänel: Book: Pienza The draft of a humanistic world view. Karl-Heinz Hänel, January 5, 2016, accessed on March 24, 2018 (German). 
6. ↑ Jan Pieper: Example Sabloneta quadrata , the Roman basis of the city map of Sabbioneta. Zs. Bauwelt 40–41 / 05, Bauverlag BV, Gütersloh. Pp. 33-45
7. ↑ Jan Pieper: Sabbioneta - The dimensional figure of an ideal city. In: Heritage. RWTH Aachen, September 17, 2012, accessed on November 2, 2019 . 
8. ^ TU Berlin: Pieper series. Retrieved March 24, 2018 .