Michael Braum

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Michael Braum (2013)

Michael Braum (* 1953 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) is a German urban planner and university lecturer for urban planning and design at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover and managing director of the IBA Heidelberg .

Education and activity

Braum studied urban planning and urban development at the Technical University of Berlin . After working for the Free Planning Group Berlin , he returned in 1984 as a research assistant to the Department of Urban Development and Settlement at the Technical University of Berlin. The result of his scientific work were various publications on urban planning in Berlin and New York.

In 1988 he became a partner in the Free Planning Group in Berlin. In 1996 he was co-founder of the office conradi, braum & bockhorst urban planners and architects . In 2006 he founded the mbup_stadtarchitekturlandschaft office . In his offices he is mainly concerned with conceptual work at the interface between urban planning, architecture and landscape.

In 1998 he was appointed professor for urban planning and design at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover. He still holds the chair today. From 2008 to 2013 he was chairman of the board of the Federal Building Culture Foundation , which he established. Since June 2013 he has been managing director of the International Building Exhibition Heidelberg .

Braum is a member of the Association of German Architects , the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning (DASL) and the Association for Urban, Regional and Regional Planning . He is the author and editor of numerous publications on urban planning and building culture and has been a member of the Convention and the Advisory Board of the Federal Building Culture Foundation since 2016.

Projects (selection)

  • 2007–2010: Tempelhof Airport Berlin (interim and subsequent use of the airport site)
  • 2007: PlanWerk Hannover, thinking further about post-war modernism (city-wide master planning)
  • 2006: Urban planning study for the reorganization of the Potsdam center
  • 2004: City-wide design concept for the provincial capital of Salzburg / Austria
  • 2000: First urban development study on the subsequent use of Berlin-Tegel Airport
  • 1993: Berlin-Pankow, planning a suburb for approx. 15,000 inhabitants

Publications (selection)

  • Baukultur Verkehr: Places / Processes / Strategies . Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3906027197
  • BAUKULTUR: Building culture of the public . Volume 4 of the report of building culture. Basel 2011, ISBN 978-3034606929
  • TRAFFIC: Where does building culture go? Volume 3 of the report of building culture. Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3034603607
  • FREIRAUM: How does Freiraum find the city? Volume 2 of the report of building culture. Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3034603638
  • EDUCATION: What is education based on? Volume 1 of the report of building culture. Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3034603584
  • Postwar Modernism in Germany: Thinking One Era Ahead. Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3034601085
  • Reconstruction in Germany: Positions on a Controversial Topic. Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3034600675
  • Planwerk Stadtraum Leipzig: Documentation. City of Leipzig (ed.). Leipzig 2006, UBL University Leipzig
  • Urban design concept: City of Salzburg (ed.). Salzburg 2005.
  • Planwerk Westraum Berlin: goals, strategies and landscape planning model. Senate Department for Urban Development (ed.). Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3889611857
  • Berlin Residential Quarters: An urban planning guide through 70 housing developments in Berlin. Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3496012603
  • Urban planning in Hanover: A guide through 50 settlements. Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3496012238
  • Battery Park City, New York , in: Ulrich Becker, Annalie Schoen (Eds.). The Janus faces of the boom. Hamburg 1986, ISBN 978-3879754809
  • The example of Weidenhausen / urban design for Marburg an der Lahn , in: Bauwelt 1/2. Berlin 1984.
  • Partial planning , in: Stadtbauwelt. Gütersloh 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Braum becomes head of IBA Heidelberg. momentumMagazin, October 10, 2012, accessed on March 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ Michael Braum on the Schader Foundation website. April 15, 2015, accessed March 2, 2016.
  3. ↑ IBA Heidelberg. Michael Braum becomes managing director. In: The architect of October 11, 2012, accessed on March 2, 2016.
  4. ^ The IBA office. IBA Heidelberg website, accessed on March 2, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Braum, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German city planner
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vor der Höhe