Martin Steinmann (architect)

Martin Steinmann (* 1942 in Zurich ) is a Swiss architect , journalist and architectural historian . He is a professor emeritus at EPF Lausanne .

After studying architecture at the ETH Zurich in 1961, he received his diploma under Alfred Roth in 1967 . He initially worked for Ernst Gisel for a year before working from 1968 to 1978 as a research assistant and assistant to Adolf Max Vogt at the recently founded Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture. There he researched the founding documents of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) and founded their archive. In 1978 he received his doctorate with his work on this subject. In 1979 he was visiting professor at MIT , and from 1982–1985 he taught at ETH Zurich. In 1987 Steinmann was appointed professor of architecture and architectural theory in Lausanne, where he stayed until his retirement in 2007. He interfered and interferes in the architecture debate in a variety of ways: as the author of a large number of texts on the architecture of the 20th century, as co-organizer of the exhibition on the Ticino architecture Tendenza 1975, a large number of other exhibitions of his atelier Arge Baukunst, founded in 1986, including Zeitzeichen (1987 in Aarau), as editor of the specialist journals archithese (1979–1985) and Faces (from 1987). In 2016 he was awarded a Prix ​​Meret Oppenheim .

Fonts (selection)

• Martin Fröhlich, Martin Steinmann: Imaginary Zurich. The city that wasn't built. Huber, Frauenfeld 1975, ISBN 3-7193-0502-3 .
• Martin Steinmann: Trends. Newer architecture in Ticino. GTA, Zurich 1977 (3rd edition), ISBN 3-85676-002-4 .
• Martin Steinmann: CIAM: Documents 1928–1939 (Diss.) Birkhäuser, Basel 1979, ISBN 3-7643-1022-7 .
• Peter Disch (ed.), Martin Steinmann: Architecture in German Switzerland: 1980–1990. ADV Publishers, Lugano 1991, ISBN 88-7922-000-4 .

Web links

• Farewell lecture , biographical information on the EPF Lausanne website
• Martin Steinmann. In: arch INFORM .