Manuel Cuadra

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Manuel Cuadra (2015)

Manuel Cuadra (born in Lima , Peru in 1952 ) is a Peruvian architect and architectural historian. He is Professor of Architectural History / History of the Built Environment at the University of Kassel . The focus of his teaching is the integrated consideration of architecture, city and landscape from the beginnings of settlement history to the present.

Life

After studying architecture in Lima (1970–1976), Manuel Cuadra completed his doctorate at the Technical University of Darmstadt (1980–1984, 1988) on the subject of architecture in Latin America. The Andean states in the 19th and 20th centuries. From 1986 to 1990 he worked as a research assistant and lecturer in the Department of Design and Building Design under the direction of Günter Behnisch in the Department of Architecture at TU Darmstadt.

This was followed by teaching positions at the Art History Institute of Heidelberg University (1987–1995), at the Facultad de Arquitectura of the Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires (1988) and at the Universidad de Talca in Chile, as well as a visiting professorship for the history and theory of architecture at the Städelschule Frankfurt (1995-1997). As a result of a substitute professorship (2003–2004) at the University of Kassel for architectural history and design in the department of architecture, urban planning, landscape planning, he received the full professorship for the department of architectural history / history of the built environment in 2005.

In addition to teaching the history of architecture, the city and the cultural landscape, his research activities focus on Latin America.

Due to his freelance work as an author and curator, Manuel Cuadra was appointed associate member of the Association of German Architects (BDA) and a full member of the International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA), which he has served as a member of the board of directors since 2005 and as general secretary since 2008 . In 2011 he received an honorary doctorate from the Peruvian Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería .

Since 2015 he has headed the DFG project “Dreams and Spaces of a Revolution / Architecture in Cuba 1959–2009: Historical and Theoretical Backgrounds / Periodization / Reference Objects”. In addition to his research activities in Latin America, Cuadra maintains international relations and a. to China. He has been a member of various juries since 1997.

Others

Event series

  • Since 2006 "Fusion - Positions on Architecture, City and Landscape" at the University of Kassel
  • 2005–2007 / 2011–2012 “documenta / experimenta urbana” at the University of Kassel

Congress contributions and lectures

  • CICA: International Committee of Architectural Critics (Workshop Barcelona 1996, Istanbul 2005, Turin 2008, Shanghai 2015)
  • Lecturing for the UIA congress, the Goethe-Institut and the Didacta fair

Author and curator

Conception and editing of exhibitions, books, catalogs and articles, among others for

  • the Dutch Architecture Institute - NAI ( Architecture and Ethics )
  • the German Architecture Museum - DAM ( Between vision and reality: Housing today ; form follows ... ; construction and design )
  • the Association of German Architects - BDA ( dealing with architecture from the 1950s to 1970s ; international ; energy ; identity ; new building in old cities: contributions to urban planning culture )
  • the Chamber of Architects Hessen - AKH

Prices

  • International price for ecologically groundbreaking building and urban planning in East Germany.

Sponsor : Artists United for Nature; Lever foundation; Ministry for Regional Planning, Urban Development and Housing of the State of Saxony-Anhalt. For Bitterfeld brown coal fallow: Problems / Chances / Visions (1993).

Publications (selection)

  • with the building department of the city of Reutlingen (ed.): Architecture around 1900 in Reutlingen. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Reutlingen 1990.
  • Architecture in Latin America. The Andean states in the 19th and 20th centuries. Verlag Jürgen Häusser, Darmstadt 1991, ISBN 3-927902-47-0 .
  • Bitterfeld brown coal fallow. Problems / opportunities / visions. Prestel Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7913-1267-7 .
  • The kindergarten: its architecture in the past and present / requirements for kindergarten construction / current examples. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-433-02142-2 .
  • with Rolf Toyka: Berlin Karl-Marx-Allee. Background of their emergence / problems / visions. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-88506-258-5 .
  • with the Wüstenrot Foundation and the Hessen Chamber of Architects (ed.): Planning and building: My school. A workshop book with ideas and instructions for construction enthusiasts. Ernst Klett Schulbuchverlag, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Leipzig 1998.
  • with Wilhelm Adam: Planning and Building: My School. The teacher's booklet for the workshop book. Ernst Klett Schulbuchverlag, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Leipzig 1998.
  • with Jo. Franzke (Hrsg.): Architecture in Frankfurt. The buildings, the life, the city at the end of the nineties. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-88506-283-6 .
  • with the Hessian Ministry of Finance and the Hesse Chamber of Architects (ed.): Planning and building in existing buildings. Award for exemplary buildings in the state of Hesse. The catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Wiesbaden 1999.
  • with Kristin Feireiss : Clorindo Testa Architect. Dutch Architecture Institute NAI, NAI Publishers, Rotterdam 2000, ISBN 90-5662-143-2 .
  • with BDA Hessen (Ed.): MAX 40th BDA Architecture Prize “Young Architects in Hessen”. Catalog for the exhibition in the Deutsches Architektur Museum, Current Gallery, Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main 2001.
  • with Ingeborg flag (Ed.): World Airports - Weltflughäfen. The book for the exhibition of the same name. Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-88506-519-3 .
  • with the Hessen Chamber of Architects (ed.): Rhein-Main-Regionale - Greater Frankfurt on the way to becoming a cultural area. Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 3-88506-516-9 .
  • Big houses, small houses. Catalog for the exhibition of the Association of German Architects BDA in the state of Hesse in the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main. A documentation of the buildings awarded the "Good Architecture in Hesse" award. Frankfurt am Main 2003.
  • MAX 40th BDA Architecture Prize “Young Architects in Hessen”. Catalog for the exhibition in the Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main 2006.
  • Big houses, small houses. Catalog for the exhibition of the Association of German Architects BDA in the state of Hesse in the German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main 2008.
  • Arquitectura en América Latina: Los países andinos Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador y Chile en los siglos XIX y XX. Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Lima, Peru 2011, ISBN 978-9972-794-18-6 .
  • with Peter Cachola Schmal, Till Schneider, Michael Schumacher, Kirsten Bucher (eds.): schneider + schumacher. Munich et al. 2011.
  • with Wilfried Wang (ed.): Banco de Londres y América del Sud - SEPRA and Clorindo Testa. O'Neil Ford Monograph 4th Texas University at Austin, Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8030-0740-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Project Dreams and Spaces of a Revolution gepris.dfg.de, accessed on May 28, 2016
  2. ↑ Fusion lecture series ( Memento of the original from May 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. uni-kassel.de, accessed on May 28, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-kassel.de
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Schulze: experimenta urbana. In: www.experimenta-urbana.de. Retrieved November 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Cuadra, Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian architect and architectural historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Lima , Peru