Miron Mislin

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Miron Mislin (born March 9, 1938 in Bucharest ; † April 24, 2018 in Berlin) was a German architect and building historian . The focus of his work was the history of building, construction and urban construction with the following topics: built-up bridges, megastructures of the first to third generation, architectural and urban planning utopias, the history of building construction from the Renaissance to the 20th century and the history of industrial architecture. Mislin's monograph “Industrial Architecture in Berlin 1840–1910” is regarded as a standard work on the history of architecture on this subject. The exhibition of the same name was shown in Berlin, Rome, Vienna, Madrid and New York from 1999 to 2004.

Life

Miron Mislin first became a draftsman for furniture construction and interior design and studied architecture from 1962 to 1966 at what was then the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HBK), today the Berlin University of the Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg. He completed his first final exam as HBK works architect in the summer of 1966. Mislin then continued his training with studies of geography, history and economic history at the Free University of Berlin and urban planning and sociology at the Technical University of Berlin .

From 1969 Miron Mislin again studied architecture, building construction, civil engineering and building and urban history at the University (TH) Stuttgart . The main diploma examination in the field of building construction took place in October 1971. The diploma thesis “Investigations into the development of bridges in their relationship to architecture: form and construction in the 17th – 19th centuries. Century ”was carried out by Günther Wilhelm and Antonio Hernandez. Mislin received his doctorate in 1978 with Antonio Hernandez and Wolfgang Braunfels with a dissertation on the “built-up bridges of Paris” .

Miron Mislin was a research assistant first at the Technical University of Braunschweig (1979–1980) in the subject of design, building and monument preservation in the country and then at the Technical University of Berlin (1980–1984) in the subject of design, building construction and industrial design . From 1982 to 1985 he was a lecturer for “History of Building Technology” for architects at the Institute for Building History and Building Survey at the TU Berlin.

During this time, Mislin developed the first foundations for a new subject, the history of building technology for architects, which deals more than the traditional building or architectural history with the context of the history of construction and technology. This new subject became known through the "Working Papers on the History of Construction Technology", Issues 11 and 14 (1984–1986) published by the documentation for further education at the TU Berlin. The habilitation for the subject of building history with special consideration of the history of building technology took place in 1986 at the University of Stuttgart, where Mislin was again supervised by Antonio Hernandez and Julius Posener . Since 1984 he has dealt with the historical development of industrial architecture, first in Berlin.

His project for research into Berlin's industrial architecture from 1840 to 1910 was supported by Wilhelm Treue from the Berlin Historical Commission. These efforts led to a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), which finally culminated in 2002 in the comprehensive work Industrial Architecture in Berlin 1840–1910 . Since the summer semester of 1987 Mislin has taught first as a private lecturer, since the winter semester of 1992/1993 as an adjunct professor, in addition to building history, also the history of industrial architecture at the TU Berlin. In 1999 he was awarded the TU Prize for Teaching Champion for his achievements in teaching . External appointments were made in 1987 as Senior Lecturer and in 2004 as Professor . He also worked as an expert for building damage assessment and for historical industrial architecture.

At times he also taught as a visiting professor in the Ingegneria Edile department of the University of Pisa and at the Faculty of Architecture des Technions in Haifa . From 2004 to 2006 he was a Research Fellow at the Hagley Center for Business and Technology History in Wilmington , Delaware (near Philadelphia). Most recently, Mislin worked and researched the development of American industrial architecture from 1890 to the beginnings of the automotive industry around 1920 and its influence on German industrial architecture. For this project he was awarded a research fellowship from the Joseph Horner Library in Philadelphia and the German Historical Institute in Washington from 2010–2011 . Mislin's research on American industrial architecture from 1876 to 1929 was published posthumously by Rosemarie Lazarus in a monograph

Fonts

  • The overbuilt bridges of Paris, their architectural and urban development in the 12th – 19th centuries. Century. Dissertation Stuttgart 1978, dissertation printing 1979.
  • The covered bridge: Pont Notre-Dame. Building design and social structure. Haag + Herchen Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-88129-450-3 .
  • History of construction technology . Working Papers 1–13. Issue 11, TUB Documentation Further Education, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-7983-1009-2 , Working Papers, 14-27 Issue 14, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-7983-1032-7
  • History of building construction and engineering. From antiquity to the present. An introduction. Werner-Verlag , Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-8041-2684-7 .
  • Leave me alone, children, I'll probably never come back here! In memoriam Julius Posener. Jovis Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-931321-88-6 .
  • History of building construction and engineering. Volume 1: Antiquity to Renaissance. Werner Verlag, Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 3-8041-2742-8 .
  • History of building construction and engineering. Volume 2: From the Baroque to Modern Times. Werner Verlag, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-8041-4391-1 .
  • Market and auction halls. History and designs for new uses. Exhibition catalog July 2000, SE / S-Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft Eldenaer Straße mbH, Berlin.
  • Industrial architecture in Berlin 1840–1910. Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-8030-0617-1 .
  • Early Iron and Steel Buildings of Industrial Architecture in the United States, 1850-1900 . In: Stahlbau 85th vol., (2016), no. 11, pp. 781–790.

literature

  • Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Report on the State of Construction History in Austria, Germany and Switzerland . In: Construction History. Research Perspectives in Europe, ed. By Antonio Becchi, Massimo Corradi, Federico Foce and Orietta Pedemonte, pp. 61–112 (here p. 94), Florence: Kim Williams Books 2004, ISBN 88-88479-11-2 .

Congresses and meetings

  • Reuse of preserved Markethalls and Industrial Shops, International Workshop, Berlin, SES, (New use of listed industrial and market halls), 13. – 14. July 2000, SE / S.
  • La Roca di Spandau - The Fortress of Spandau, Colloqui internationali Castelli e Città Fortificate - Castles on the Ground, on Water and in the Air , Pisa-Lucca, 25. – 26. May 2001, ISBN 88-8250-035-7 .
  • Iron Constructions of factory Buildings in Berlin in the 19th and Early 20th Century, ( Iron constructions of factory buildings in Berlin in the 19th and early 20th centuries), First International Congress on Construction History, Madrid, 20.-24. January 2003, ISBN 84-9728-070-9 .
  • Reinforced Concrete for Industrial Buildings in United States between 1890–1910, ( Reinforced Concrete for Industrial Buildings in America between 1890 and 1910), International Seminar Theory and practice of construction: knowledge, means, models. Didactic and research experiences , Ravenna, 23-26th October 2005.
  • The Planning and Building Process of Two Paris Bridges in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century: The Pont Notre-Dame and Pont Marie, (The planning and building process of two Paris bridges in the 16th and 17th centuries: the Pont Notre-Dame and Pont Marie) Second International Congress on Construction History , Cambridge, March 29–2. April 2006, ISBN 0-7017-0204-4 .
  • Industrial Architecture and Engineering in America and Germany from the Chicago World Fair 1893 to the Assembly Line in Ford Factories 1919, ( Industrial Architecture and Engineering in America and Germany from the Chicago World Fair 1893 to the Assembly Line in Ford Factories 1919) Annual Meeting Conference of the Society for the History of technology , SHOT, Lisbon, 10-14. October 2008, ISBN 978-989-95835-0-4 .
  • Annotations on the History of Curtain Walls in Industrial Buildings of the United States and Germany between 1890 and 1920, (Remarks on the history of curtain walls in industrial buildings in America and Germany between 1890 and 1920), Third International Congress on Construction History , Cottbus, 20-24. May 2009, ISBN 978-3-936033-31-1 .
  • Planning and Building Process of Two Inhabited Bridges: The Case of the Pont St. Michel (1379–1808) in Paris and the Mühlendammbrücke (1687–1887) in Berlin , (Planning and building process of two inhabited bridges: The Pont St. Michel and the Mühlendammbrücke in Berlin), International Congress, Archeology of Bridges , Regensburg, 5–8. November 2009.
  • Memories of Julius Posener and American industrial culture, in: Julius Posener. Work and effect. Symposium of the Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin, February 25, 2011, TU Berlin.
  • The daylight factory in America, in: Factory Building Revisited. Form, Function and the Social Question. International conference of the Berlin Center for Industrial Culture of the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and the Institute for Art and Visual History of the Humboldt University in Berlin: 7. – 9. May 2015

Memberships

  • Berlin Chamber of Architects
  • Society of Architectural Historians
  • Construction History Society
  • Society for the History of Technology
  • Federal Association of German Expert Councils V.
  • German University Association
  • Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighborhoods of the Modern Movement

watch TV

  • FAB Berlin: Conversion or demolition - the halls at the Borsigturm - Interview from December 16, 2003, at the same time a German contribution to the EU documentary "Industrial Heritage in Europe"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar . 18th Edition (2001), Volume 2, p. 2122.
  2. ↑ Memorial page of Miron Mislin | Tagesspiegel mourning. Retrieved on July 29, 2019 (German).
  3. ^ Miron Mislin and Rosemarie Lazarus: American Industrial Architecture (1876-1929). The Gilded Age . Berlin: Wasmuth & Zohlen Verlag 2020, ISBN 978-3-8030-2102-1
personal data
SURNAME Mislin, Miron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and building historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2018
Place of death Berlin