Jana Revedin

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Jana Revedin at StadtLesen 2019 in Dessau-Roßlau

Jana Revedin (* 1965 in Konstanz ) is a German architect , architectural theorist and author . She lives and works in Wernberg , Carinthia , and in Venice .

Life

After studying architecture and urban planning in Buenos Aires , at Princeton University and in Milan , she did her doctorate and habilitation at the University of Venice on the understanding of public space as a catalyst for democratic self-image in German modernism (tutor Aldo Rossi ) and is now Full professor of architecture and urban planning at the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris and at the Ecole supérieure d'architecture at the University of Lyon .

As the author of standard works on architectural theory, she specializes in the German reform avant-garde , whose social and ecological demands make her the benchmark for contemporary sustainable architecture and urban development.

Her biographical novel on the life of Ise Frank , Walter Gropius' second wife and pioneer of the Bauhaus idea (Spiegel bestseller), was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2019 and, as a 3sat film adaptation, for the 2019 Grimme Prize .

Revedin is co-founder and chairwoman of the LOCUS Foundation , which awards the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture .

Prizes and awards

  • 2019: Nomination for the Grimme Prize and the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair
  • since 2018: Member of the Scientific Board of the University of Architecture in Bordeaux
  • 2017: Medal of the Academie d'Architecture Paris for outstanding achievements in developing critical discourse in architecture and urban planning
  • 2016: Medal of the Academie d'Architecture Paris for the direction of outstanding dissertations
  • 2014: Knight of the French Legion of Honor ( Chevaliers des Arts et des Lettres )?
  • 2013: Prize for Teaching Excellence from the European Urban Development Universities AESOP
  • 2013: World winner of the UN Habitat competition "Revitalization of Settlements"
  • since 2012: UNESCO delegate to the research and teaching committee of the UIA (International Union of Architects)
  • since 2006: Founder and president of the architecture prize “ Global Award for Sustainable Architecture ”, under the protection of honor by UNESCO
  • since 2002: UNESCO expert for sustainable architecture and urban development

Fonts (selection)

architecture

  • Marie-Hélène Contal, Jana Revedin, “Sustainable Design I - VII: Towards a New Ethics for Architecture and the City”, Gallimard Editions Alternatives, Paris 2009 - 2019
  • Jana Revedin, “Construire avec l'immatériel: Temps, usages, communauté, droit, climat ... Nouvelles ressources pour l'architecture”, avec une préface de Pascal Nicolas Le Strat, Gallimard, collection Manifesto, Paris 2018
  • Jana Revedin, “La ville rebelle: Démocratiser le projet urbain”, avec une préface de Yona Friedman and an epilogue by Christopher Alexander, Gallimard Collection Manifesto, Paris 2015
  • Jana Revedin, “The Radicant City: Why Sustainable Living Space grows Like Ivy”, in: “Re-enchanter le Monde: L'architecture et la ville face aux grandes transitions”, Gallimard Collection Manifesto, Paris 2014
  • Jana Revedin, “The Eleven Books on Architecture: Design Theories for Societies in Change”, BTH, Karlskrona 2013
  • Jana Revedin, “Old craft in Venice: The lagoon city rediscovered”, Styria, Vienna 2013
  • Jana Revedin, “Architecture in the Making” Gallimard Editions Alternatives, Paris 2012
  • Jana Revedin, “Monument and Modernity: Style and language of the Hallenbauten , elements of construction of the Democratic Town”, Doctoral Dissertation, National Library / IUAV, Rome / Venice 2000
  • Jana Revedin, "Gardens in Carinthia: historical garden images", Heyn, Klagenfurt 1996
  • Domenico Luciani, Jana Revedin, “Garden, Landscape: Elective Affinities”, Alinea, Milan 1992
  • Jana Revedin, “The Concept of Open Space in the Reformatory Architecture of the German Avant-Garde”, National Library / Milan Polytechnic University, Rome / Milan 1991

Literary

  • Everyone here calls me Ms. Bauhaus: The life of Ise Frank , DuMont , Cologne 2018
  • Margherita , Berlin: Aufbau Verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3-351-03830-4

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Revedin, Jana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, architectural theorist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy