Manfred Speidel

Manfred Speidel (born May 7, 1938 in Stuttgart ) is a German architect , architectural theorist and university professor .

Live and act

Manfred Speidel completed his architecture studies at the Technical University of Stuttgart with the academic degree of graduate engineer . In 1965 he became a lecturer at the Ulm School of Design . A research stay in Tokyo followed from 1966 to 1975 . In 1973 he received his doctorate from Waseda University in Tokyo . From 1975 until his retirement in 2003 he taught as professor for architectural theory at RWTH Aachen University .

His focus is on the history of contemporary architecture in Europe and Japan, architectural anthropology and experimental earth building . He curated exhibitions on Japanese architecture in Düsseldorf in 1983, on Bruno Taut in Japan in 1994 and 1995 in Magdeburg , and in 2007 at the Watarium in Tokyo. Since 1988, he has been publishing the entire literary works of the architect Bruno Taut in 13 volumes so far, thus putting together one of the most extensive collections of writings, drawings, photos and artefacts. Speidel also conducts research in the areas of religion and religious customs in Japan as well as in Japanese architecture of the present and past.

Since the 1980s, the Monday evening talks established by Speidel under the title Mon-Arch have been a high point in university life at the RWTH Aachen Faculty of Architecture. You are valued by numerous interested parties beyond the university. Renowned contemporary architects from all over the world present their works in the lecture series, including a. Aldo Rossi , Oswald Mathias Ungers , Tsutomu Shigemura, Lucien Kroll, Louis G. le Roy, Hans Hollein , Tadao Ando , Gottfried Böhm , Leon Krier , James Stirling , Berthold Lubetkin , Rem Koolhaas , Heinrich Klotz .

Fonts

• Designed nature. Thoughts on Garden Art of the Heian Period . In: Jörg Zimmermann (Hrsg.): The nature of man . Fink Verlag, Munich 1981, p. 225 ff.
• with Andreas Dilthey u. a .: & with clay. Experiments with clay 1979–1982. (Exhibition catalog) RWTH Aachen, Aachen 1982.
• (Ed.): Japanese architecture. Past and present . (Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, June – July 1983) Hatje Verlag, Stuttgart 1983.
• with Sebastian Legge: Heinz Bienefeld. Buildings and projects . Verlag der Buchhandlung König, Cologne 1991.
• (Ed.): Team Zoo. Four Japanese architectural groups. Buildings and projects 1971–1990 . Hatje Verlag, Stuttgart 1991.
• (Ed.): Bruno Taut. Nature and Imagination 1880–1938. (Catalog for the exhibition “Bruno Taut Retrospective, Nature and Fantasy”, which was shown in 1994 in Tokyo and Kyoto and in 1995 in the Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg and the Technikmuseum Magdeburg.) Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-433-02641-6 .
• with Karl Kegler, Peter Ritterbach: Paths to a new architecture (Bruno Taut, Frühlicht in Magdeburg). Concept review issue 1–4, 1921–1922 and reconstruction issue 5, 1922 . Berlin 2000.
• with Winfried Nerdinger , Kristiana Hartmann , Matthias Schirren (eds.): Bruno Taut. Architect between tradition and avant-garde. DVA, Stuttgart 2001.
• Taut, Bruno. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013,ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7, pp. 814-817 ( digitized version).

Annotated new editions of Bruno Taut's writings

• Ex Oriente lux. The reality of an idea. A collection of writings from 1914–1938. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2007.
• I love japanese culture. Small writings on Japan. Berlin 2003.
• The city crown. Berlin 2002.
• The new apartment. The woman as creator. Berlin 2001.
• The world builder. Architectural drama for symphonic music. Berlin 1999.
• The Japanese house and its life. Berlin 1997.
• Bruno Taut in Japan. Das Tagebuch, Volume 1, 1933. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2016.
• Bruno Taut in Japan. Das Tagebuch, Volume 2, 1934. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2016.
• Bruno Taut in Japan. The Diary, Volume 3, 1935–1936. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2016.

Web links

• Manfred Speidel at archplus.net
• Manfred Speidel at archimaera.de