Markus Breitschmid

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Markus Breitschmid in New York City (April 2012)

Markus Breitschmid (born April 20, 1966 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss architectural theorist . He has lived in the USA since the 1990s . Breitschmid, together with the architect Valerio Olgiati, introduced the concept of non-referential architecture into the architectural discourse.

biography

Breitschmid studied architecture in Lucerne, New York and Virginia from 1988 to 1994. In 2000 he received his doctorate in engineering from Friedrich Nietzsche at the Technical University of Berlin under Fritz Neumeyer with the work Der Baugedanke under Friedrich Nietzsche .

Breitschmid has been teaching at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ( Virginia Tech ) since 2004 , first as an associate professor and since 2010 as a full professor. Before that he taught at Cornell University (2003) and at the University of North Carolina (1998–2002). Breitschmid works as a guest critic and gives lectures at universities, museums and professional associations in America, Europe and Asia.

Writings on architecture

Breitschmid's writings examine the aesthetic mentality of modernism and contemporary architecture. Among other topics, Breitschmid has written books on the building concept of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche , on the work of the Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati and on non-referential architecture.

Breitschmid submitted his dissertation “Der Baugedanke bei Friedrich Nietzsche” in 1999 to the Technical University of Berlin; this was published in 2001 as a book under the title “The building spirit. Friedrich Nietzsche and Architecture ”published. In his dissertation, Breitschmid examined Friedrich Nietzsche's understanding of architecture. Using the Nietzsche Complete Edition, he traces the development of the "building concept" at Nietzsche. Nietzsche's departure from Wagner's music turned out to be a turn to architecture, according to Wolfgang Pehnt in the FAZ . Christian Grothaus asks critically about the selection criteria of the examined writings and, like Pehnt, warns that Nietzsche's correspondence has not been evaluated. The reviewer Matthias Mayer sees the value of the work primarily in Breitschmid's “informative enrichment of the analyzes” through quotations. Together with books on the building concept of Nietzsche by the architecture theorist Fritz Neumeyer and the art historian Tilmann Buddensieg , The Building Spirit has established itself as a basic text of Nietzsche research in the field of architecture. For the new and expanded edition of 2013, The Building Spirit was included in the bibliography of the standard work The History of Architectural Theory - From Antiquity to the Present by Hanno-Walter Kruft.

Breitschmid's other publications deal with contemporary Swiss architecture, Bruno Taut , the tectonics of architecture and aesthetic theories of interpretation.

Since 2006 Breitschmid has made a name for himself with his collaboration with the architect Valerio Olgiati, which led to various published books, essays and interviews. In her book Forms of Proactice from 2012, the Romanian-British architectural historian Irina Davidovici argued that the thesis of the “meaning of the idea” - which Breitschmid used to describe Olgiati's work - applies to all contemporary architecture of the “post-enlightenment culture “(Post-Enlightenment culture) be correct.

Since 2013 Breitschmid and Olgiati have been promoting a non-referential architecture as an answer to the contemporary social trend which increasingly rejects ideologies of all kinds, political and otherwise. The first use of the term non-referential in this context appeared in an interview by Olgiati and Breitschmid in the Italian architecture journal Domus . With a view to a non-referential architecture, Breitschmid published a refutation entitled “Architecture is derived from architecture” in the following year as part of a debate in the Swiss architecture journal Werk, Bauen + Wohnen. Breitschmid speaks out against the attempt to enrich contemporary architecture with non-architectural content and to want to make it so significant.

In 2018 Breitschmid and Olgiati published the book Non-Reference Architecture - a treatise on contemporary architecture. The book analyzes the social currents of the early 21st century and argues that society is in a different epoch than that of postmodernity. The book presents new framework conditions for architecture and defines seven fundamental principles for non-referential architecture: 1) spatial experience, 2) wholeness, 3) novelty, 4) construction, 5) contradiction, 6) order, 7) creation of meaning.

Works (excerpt)

As an author

  • The building spirit. Friedrich Nietzsche and architecture . Quart, Luzern 2001, ISBN 3-907631-23-4 .
  • Can Architectural Art-Form be Designed Out Of Construction? Architecture Edition, 2004, ISBN 0-9702820-8-7 .
  • Nietzsche's thinking space . Edition Didacta, 2006, ISBN 978-3-033-01206-6 .
  • Between Object and Culture , in: Wolkenkuckucksheim - Cloud-Cuckoo-Land - Vozdushnyi zamo. Eduard Fuehr (ed.), Cottbus: No. 2/2007.
  • Three Architects in Switzerland: Beat Consoni - Morger & Degalo - Valerio Olgiati . Quart, Luzern 2008, ISBN 978-3-907631-88-1 .
  • The importance of the idea. The architecture of Valerio Olgiati . Niggli, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7212-0676-0 .
  • El Inventorio Conceptual de Valerio Olgiati / Valerio Olgiati's Ideational Inventory (= El Croquis. No. 156). El Croquis Editorial, Madrid 2011, ISBN 978-84-88386-65-6 .
  • The Architect as 'Molder of the Sensibilities of the General Public': Bruno Taut and his Architekturprogramm . in: The Art of Social Critique. Painting Mirrors of Social Life, Lexington Books, 2012. ISBN 978-0-7391-4923-2
  • with Victoria Easton: Christ & Gantenbein. Around the corner . Hatje & Cantz, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3381-6 .
  • Bruno Taut - Glass House at Cologne . In: Harry Francis Mallgrave, David Leatherbarrow, Alexander Eisenschmidt: The Companions to the History of Architecture, Volume IV, Twentieth-Century Architecture. John Wiley & Sons, London, 2017, pp. 61–72. ISBN 978-1-4443-3851-5 .
  • with Valerio Olgiati: Non-referential architecture . Simonett & Baer, ​​Basel 2018, ISBN 978-3-906313-20-7 .

As editor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Breitschmid: The building spirit. Friedrich Nietzsche and architecture. Quart Verlag, Luzern 2001, p. 219.
  2. ^ Virginia Tech website
  3. ↑ A + U. Architecture and Urbanism. No. 12, Tokyo: A + U Publishing Co., Ltd, 2012, p. 13.
  4. ↑ Markus Breitschmid: The building spirit. Friedrich Nietzsche and architecture. Quart Verlag, Lucerne 2001.
  5. ↑ Ole W. Fischer: Nietzsche's shadow . Dissertation, ETH Zurich. 2008, p. 6–7 ( online [PDF]).
  6. ↑ Review: Non-fiction book Life builds upwards . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 18, 2002, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed November 27, 2015]).
  7. ^ Christian Grothaus: Physiology and Style. Architektur und Nietzsche ... (No longer available online.) In: www.logeion.net. February 2002, archived from the original on December 23, 2015 ; accessed on December 22, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.logeion.net
  8. ^ Matthias Müller: Nietzsche and architecture . In: Nietzsche Studies . tape 32 , 2003, p. 526-530, here p. 530 .
  9. ↑ Hartmut Mayer: Mimesis and modern architecture. An architectural theoretical reassessment. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2017, p. 18.
  10. ↑ Ole W. Fischer: Nietzsche's shadow: Henry van de Velde - from philosophy to form. Gebrüder Mann Verlag, Berlin 2012, pp. 12-14.
  11. ↑ Hanno-Walter Kruft: The History of Architectural Theory - From Antiquity to the Present. CH Beck, Munich (1985) 2013, p. 703.
  12. ^ Markus Breitschmid: Three Architects in Switzerland: Beat Consoni - Morger & Degelo - Valerio Olgiati. Quart Publishers, Lucerne 2007.
  13. ^ Markus Breitschmid [with Victoria Easton]: Christ & Gantenbein: Around the Corner. Hatje Cantz Verlag , Ostfildern 2012.
  14. ^ Markus Breitschmid, Mario Botta : Architecture and the Ambient. Translation by Alice Francesconi and Marianna Galbusera. Virginia Tech Architecture Publications, Blacksburg 2013.
  15. ↑ Markus Breitschmid: Archaic and yet specific. The Pérez Museum in Miami. Herzog & de Meuron in: Archithese, Zurich :, 4/2015, pp. 54–61.
  16. ^ Markus Breitschmid: The Architect as' the Molder of the Sensibilities of the General Public. Bruno Taut and the architecture program. in: The Art of Social Critique. Painting Mirrors of Social Life. Shawn Chandler Bingham (ed.) Lexington Books of Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2012, pp. 155-179.
  17. ^ Markus Breitschmid: Alpine Architecture by Bruno Taut. in: Disegno. The Quarterly Journal of Design, Spring, London 2017, pp. 62–70.
  18. ^ Markus Breitschmid: The Glass House at Cologne. in: Companion to the History of Architecture, (Harry F. Mallgrave, David Leatherbarrow , Alexander Eisenschmidt, eds.), Volume 4, Wiley-Blackwell , London 2017, pp. 61–73.
  19. ↑ Markus Breitschmid: Can architectural art-from be designed out of construction? Architecture Edition, Blacksburg 2004.
  20. ^ Markus Breitschmid: Between Object and Culture. in: Cloud Cuckoo Land - Cloud Cuckoo Land - Vozdushnyi zamo. Eduard Fuehr (ed.), No. 2, Cottbus 2007, pp. 162-171.
  21. ^ Markus Breitschmid: Architecture & Philosophy: Thoughts on Building. in: Designing Design Education. Designtrain, Amsterdam 2008, pp. 138–147.
  22. ↑ Breitschmid, Markus: The Significance of the Idea - The meaning of the idea. Niggli Verlag, Sulgen 2008.
  23. ^ Markus Breitschmid: Valerio Olgiati - Conversation with Students. Virginia Tech Architecture Publications, Blacksburg 2007.
  24. ^ Markus Breitschmid: El Repertorio Conceptual de Valerio Olgiati - Valerio Olgiati's Ideational Inventory. in: Valerio Olgiati 1996-2011. Afinados Discordancias - Hamonized Discodances. Enrique Marquez (ed.). El Croquis Editorial, Madrid 2011, pp. 6–29.
  25. ^ Markus Breitschmid: One Question for the Architect Who Does Not Believe in Anything. in: Architecture + Urbanism 12, Tokyo 2012, pp. 44–47.
  26. ↑ Markus Breitschmid: Un'architettura che, in fondo, e 'solo' astratta in: Casabella . No.770. Francesco Dal Co (ed.), Mondadori, Milano 2008, pp. 8-9; 107-108.
  27. ↑ Irina Davidovici: Forms of Practice. German-Swiss Architecture 1980–2000. gta Verlag, Zurich, pp. 10–21.
  28. ^ Valerio Olgiati [in an interview with Markus Breitschmid]: Sulla non referezialita. in: Domus No. 974, 13/2013, Milano, pp. 45-46.
  29. ↑ Markus Breitschmid: Architecture is derived from architecture. in: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen, Zurich: 9/2014, pp. 45–47.
  30. ↑ Non-referential architecture. Thought by Valerio Olgiati; Written by Markus Breitschmid. Basel: Simonett & Baer, ​​2018
personal data
SURNAME Breitschmid, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architectural theorist and historian of architecture
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne , Switzerland