Maren Harnack

Maren Harnack (* in Neumünster ) is a German architect , urban planner and university lecturer for urban planning and urban planning at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences .

Life

Harnack studied architecture , urban planning and social sciences in Stuttgart , Delft and London . She worked as a research assistant at the HafenCity University in Hamburg . She has been working as a freelance architect since 2008 and, in 2011, accepted a professorship for urban planning at the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt am Main.

Maren Harnack published her dissertation Return of the Housing Machines, Social Housing and Gentrification in London in 2012 . In this work Harnack defends the large housing estates of the 1960s and 1970s against the aversion of medium-sized milieus, not least urban planners. Using the example of London about the Trellick Towers it shows how these large housing estates and residential machines gentrifziert can be.

Harnack is a founding member of the German Society for the Rescue of Hochstraßen eV , which campaigns for the preservation of the remaining elevated roads. She is the founder of the City of Failure collection for failed architectural objects, rooms, buildings and infrastructure facilities, which was exhibited during dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel. As a curator, Maren Harnack has participated in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. She is a regular guest lecturer and speaker in London, Switzerland and Skopje, Macedonia.

Fonts

• Learning from London Arch + Publishing House, Aachen 2012, ISS 0587-3452
• Return of the living machines. Social housing and gentrification in London. transcript, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-1921-8 .
• (with Nina Brodowski, Angelus Eisinger, Jörg Seifert): Points of Observation. Open City 1850–2009. International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.
• The Reborn Modern Slum. In: Angelus Eisinger, Jörg Seifert (Ed.): Urban RESET. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-0346-0776-6 .
• (with Kohler Martin): As found. Use, meaning and re-appropriation of contentious urban spaces. In: Thomas Hauck, Volker Kleinekort (Ed.): Infrastructural Urbanism. A New Approach to Urban Design. DOM Publishers, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86922-131-1 .
• London's Trellick Tower and the pastoral eye. In: Matthew Gandy (Ed.): Urban Constellations. Jovis, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86859-118-7 .
• Guiding principles and concepts for the integration of migrants. In: DIFU (Ed.): Future of City and Region. I: Integration and exclusion in urban society. Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14902-4 .

Exhibition contributions (selection)

• 2011/2012 Skopje - The Forgotten Modern Age (with Biljana Stefanovska) Architecture Showcase, Karlsruhe and Architecture Gallery at Weißenhof, Stuttgart.
• 2010 Why does British Housing come from Mars? (with Martin Kohler) This is not a Gateway Festival, London
• 2009/2010 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (with Nina Brodowski and Angelus Eisinger ), Points of Observation. Open City 1850–2009
• 2007/2008 Shrinking Cities, Deutsches Architekturmuseum , Frankfurt / Main, exhibition contribution THOSE were never there

Web links

• Professor Harnack on the homepage of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
• Harnack reads the article "Gestalten" from the lexicon of visual communication
• Maren Harnack 2012, lecture "Learning from London"
• Big, but powerful! Maren Harnack & Christian Holl on large housing estates, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maren Harnack, subject area: urban development, urban planning at the FH FFM. Retrieved July 15, 2013 . 
2. ^ Maren Harnack: Return of the living machines. Social housing and gentrification in London. Transcript, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-1921-8 ( online ). Online ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2013 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.  
3. ↑ Guest editors Maren Harnack and Christian Holl: Do large housing estates belong to the European city? Retrieved July 15, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Sundays, Growing Cities - Can People Live There ?, ZDF June 16, 2013
5. ↑ Living in the tower. How the infamous Trellik Tower became one of the most coveted addresses in London, in: Edition Le Monde Diplomatique. Moloch, Kiez & Boulevard. The world of cities. Berlin 2014
6. ↑ http://hochstrassen.de/hochstrassen.html
7. ↑ http://www.polinnahauck.de/fileadmin/pdf/programm_infraurb.pdf
8. ↑ http://www.stadtdesscheiterns.de/Stadt_des_scheiterns.html
9. ↑ architekten24.de, City of Failure founded
10. ↑ Lecture Shifting Boundaries by Maren Harnack ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ^ ETH Zurich, symposium, The Göhner case. On the crisis in large housing construction, 2012
12. ^ Robert Bosch Foundation, Remapping Skopje
13. ↑ Calendar Karlsruhe, Skopje - the forgotten modern age
14. ^ Architectural gallery at Weißenhof
15. ↑ UCL urban laboratory, London
16. ^ German Architecture Museum, Shrinking Cities
17. ↑ UCL urban laboratory, London