Max Welch Guerra

Max Welch Guerra (2017)

Max Welch Guerra (* 1956 in Santiago de Chile ) is a German-Chilean political scientist and urban planner . Since 2003 he has been professor for spatial planning and spatial research at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bauhaus University Weimar . Welch Guerra was elected director of the Bauhaus Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and Planning in July 2013. Since January 2015 he has shared the co-management with Ines Weizman.

Life

Max Welch Guerra was born in Santiago de Chile in 1956. From 1963 to 1972 Welch Guerra attended the German School in Valparaíso . In 1974 he fled as an unaccompanied minor from Chile to Germany, where he was recognized as a political refugee. In 1976 he graduated from the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium in Hilden . From 1976 to 1981 he studied political science at the Free University of Berlin ; He graduated in 1981 with a diploma in political science. From 1982 to 1985 he worked as a tenant advisor and urban researcher for the Berlin tenant community . Between 1985 and 1989 he was a lecturer for the housing industry and housing policy and for the development of civil society at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences . From 1986 to 1988 he received a doctoral grant from the Hans Böckler Foundation .

From 1987 he worked in teaching and research at the Institute for Urban and Regional Planning at the Technical University of Berlin . In 1991 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on the impact and effectiveness of the Christian Democratic funding policy in urban renewal in West Berlin in the 1980s. In 1999, Welch Guerra qualified as a professor at the Technical University of Berlin for political science, in particular urban and regional planning, with a thesis on the redefinition and redesign of the German seat of government after 1989: Capital United Fatherland - Planning and Politics between Bonn and Berlin . In 2001 and 2002 he held the DAAD-funded Walter Gropius Chair at the Facultad de Diseno y Urbanismo at the Universidad de Buenos Aires .

In January 2003 Welch Guerra was appointed to the Bauhaus University Weimar. At the beginning of 2004 he and colleagues founded the Institute for European Urban Studies (IfEU) there. Since January 2008 he has been the head of the Urban Studies bachelor's degree. Since April 2010, he has also been responsible for the master’s degree in urban studies in a leading position.

Research priorities

• The connection between politics, spatial planning and urban design
• History and historiography of European spatial planning in the 20th century
• Urban heritage and politics

Visiting professorships

Since 1990 Welch Guerra has been visiting professor at various international universities, such as:

• Visiting professor at the Instituto de Geografía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile , Chile (1990);
• Visiting professor at the Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad de Valparaiso , Chile (1992);
• Visiting professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , Brazil (1995);
• Visiting professor at the Departamento de Postgrados, Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Artes, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería , Lima , Peru (1998);
• Professeur invité at the Institut Francais d'Urbanisme, Université de Paris VIII, France (1999);
• Holder of the DAAD- funded Walter Gropius Chair at the Universidad de Buenos Aires , Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo, Argentina (2001–2002);
• Short-term visiting professorship at Posgrado en Urbanismo, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad Nacional de Colombia , Bogotá (2001);
• Guest professorship postgraduate “Gestión y desarrollo habitacional” and “Gestión ambiental del desarrollo urbano”, Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño Universidad Nacional de Córdoba , Argentina (2001 and 2002);
• Visiting professor at the Departamento Urbanística y Ordenación del Territorio, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Spain (2012);
• Research professorship at the Institut français d'urbanisme, Université de Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, France (2012)

Academic offices

Welch Guerra has been a member of the Academic Senate of the Bauhaus University Weimar since 2008 . Between 2008 and 2010 Welch Guerra was director of the binational doctoral program "Urban Heritage" funded by the DAAD . In February 2012 Welch Guerra was elected Director of the Bauhaus Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and Planning. He has been co-director with Ines Weizman since 2015.

Welch Guerra has been the project manager for the Marie Curie junior research group "urbanHist" since 2016.

further activities

In 1990 Max Welch Guerra was a co-founder of the Urban Renewal Working Group at German-speaking universities . From 1990 to 2000 he was a member of the editorial team of the Urban Renewal Yearbook . He has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board since 2009.

Prizes and awards

• Prize of the Thuringia Building Culture Foundation for the trilogy "Urban Development and Cultural Landscape Thuringia" (2010)

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Welch Guerra in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Welch Guerra at the University of Weimar
• Deutschlandradio Kultur Portrait of Max Welch Guerra

Individual evidence

1. ↑ urbanhist. Retrieved February 26, 2017 . 
2. ↑ see page of the Thuringian Baukultur Foundation about the 2010 Baukultur Prize ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ New home. Stories of arriving - "As a Latin American, I am one of the winners" . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed April 30, 2017]).