Matthias Böttger

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Matthias Böttger (2011)

Matthias Böttger (born February 7, 1974 in Braunschweig ) is a German architect and curator .

Life

Matthias Böttger studied architecture and urban planning at the University of Karlsruhe and at the University of Westminster London. He then worked as an architect in Cologne, Berlin and Paris. His scientific work began at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation , followed by the University of Stuttgart and the ETH Zurich , where he taught art and architecture. After a visiting professorship for art and public space at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg , he was Professor Sustainable Architecture + Future Tactics (SAFT) from 2012 to 2017 and head of the Institute for Space and Design at the Art University Linz since 2014 . Since 2017 he has been professor and head of the HyperWerk institute at the University of Art and Design of the FHNW in Basel.

In 2008 Matthias Böttger and Friedrich von Borries were general commissioner and curator for the German contribution "Updating Germany - 100 projects for a better future" at the XI. International Architecture Biennale in Venice . He was a scholarship holder of the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and in 2010 took over the management of aut. Architektur und tirol , an art association for architecture in Innsbruck. Matthias Böttger has been Artistic Director of the German Architecture Center (DAZ) in Berlin since 2011 . In 2013 he was curator of the German contribution “Nòs Brasil! We Brazil! ”At the Xth Bienal de Arquitetura de São Paulo.

With his office raumtaktik he has been working on spatial education and intervention since 2003. He is concerned with the production conditions of space, with the cultural, economic and political parameters that determine the design of architecture and urban planning. Topics such as globalization, migration, economic and ecological transformation, commercialization, eventization and the activation of urban space are the focus of the work. Since 2016 he has also been a partner in the urbanegestalt office, working in the fields of landscape architecture, architecture and urban planning.

Curatorial activity

Fonts (selection)

  • with Friedrich von Borries (ed.): Fan shop of globalization. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-89331-684-1 .
  • with Friedrich von Borries and Steffen P. Walz (Eds.): Space Time Play - Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level. Birkhäuser, Berlin Boston Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-8414-2 .
  • with Friedrich von Borries (Ed.): Updating Germany. 100 projects for a better future. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2262-9 .
  • with Friedrich von Borries and Florian Heilmeyer (eds.): Better future? In search of the rooms of tomorrow Merve, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-88396-255-9 .
  • with Friedrich von Borries and Florian Heilmeyer (eds.): TV Towers. 8,559 Meters Politics and Architecture. Jovis, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86859-024-1 .
  • with Ludwig Engel and Juliane Otterbach (eds.): Talking Futures. A miniature book about utopias and futures. Lost Books, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-0-9567641-0-2 .
  • with Angelika Fitz (Ed.): WELTSTADT - Nós Brasil! We Brazil. Goethe-Institut, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-939670-93-3
  • with Stefan Carsten and Ludwig Engel, Speculations Transformations - Reflections on the Future of Germany's Cities and Regions , Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-03778-471-6
  • with Olaf Bahner, New Standards. Ten theses on living , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86859-454-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. according to the author data set of the German National Library
  2. Art University Linz, Institute Space and Design
  3. Prof. Matthias Böttger. Retrieved October 23, 2017 .
  4. DER SPIEGEL "Creative by nature"
  5. Scholarship holders of the Akademie Schloss Solitude
  6. DER SPIEGEL "Elevated railway lines to parks"
  7. New standards. Ten theses on living . In: daz - German Architecture Center . ( daz.de [accessed on October 23, 2017]).
  8. Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 142, Friday, June 23, 2006