Karl R. Kegler

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Karl R. Kegler is a German building historian , architectural theorist and university professor .

Life

Kegler studied architecture (urban development), philosophy and history at the University of Cologne and at the RWTH Aachen . He worked as a research assistant at several university institutes in Cologne and Aachen. Until 2004 he was managing director of the Technology and Society Forum at RWTH Aachen University and co-editor of the Aachen Studies for Technology and Society . He published as a freelancer in various magazines and was a co-founder of the online magazine archimaera .

In 2011 the doctorate to Dr. phil. with a thesis on the history of spatial planning in Germany ( Central Places. History of a “theory” between the Nazi state and the Federal Republic ). From 2011 to 2015 he was a lecturer and assistant at the professorship for architectural theory at ETH Zurich. Kegler was co-initiator and organizer of the three East West Central conferences from 2014 to 2015 as well as the conference room dresses | dressed for architecture in June 2014. In 2015 he was appointed professor for theory and history of the city and architecture at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich .

Fonts

  • with Max Kerner : The networked person. Language, work and culture in the information society. Verlag Mainz 1999, ISBN 3896535498 .
  • with Manfred Speidel and Peter Ritterbach: Paths to a new architecture. Bruno Taut. Morning light. Concept review issue 1–4, 1921–22 and reconstruction issue 5, 1922. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2000.
  • with Reiner Kopp and Rolf Staufenbiel: Measure instead of mass. Strategies for more employment between rationalization and customer proximity. Forum Technology and Society, 2001.
  • with Max Kerner: The artificial human. Body and intelligence in the age of their technical reproducibility. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3412163015 .
  • with Max Kerner: Technology, World, Culture. Technical civilization and cultural identities in the age of globalization. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar 2003, ISBN 3412112038 .
  • with Rudolf Drux (Ed.): Unleashed forces. Technical disasters and their mediation. Brendow, Moers / Lüdenscheid 2008.
  • Sacred objectivity. Rudolf Schwarz and his contemporaries. Architectural theory / ETH Zurich, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-9524085-3-7 .
  • German spatial planning. The model of the central locations between the Nazi state and the Federal Republic. Schöningh, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-77849-9 .
  • [with Ákos Moravánszky]: Re-Scaling the Environment. New Landscapes of Design, 1960-1980 . Birkhäuser, Basel 2017, ISBN 978-3-0356-0823-6 .
  • [with Anna Minta and Niklas Naehrig]: RaumKleider. Connections between architectural space, body and dress . transcipt, Bielefeld 2018. ISBN 978-3-8376-3625-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae on the ETH Zurich website
personal data
SURNAME Kegler, Karl R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kegler, Karl Ralf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German building historian, architectural theorist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century