Nikolaus Kuhnert

Nikolaus Kuhnert (* 1939 in Potsdam ) is a German architect and publisher as well as managing editor of the journal for theory-oriented architecture Arch + .

Most of his Jewish family members died in the Holocaust during his childhood. As the son of a Jewish mother, he nevertheless believed in the reformability of German society.

Nikolaus Kuhnert studied architecture at the TU Berlin and painting at the HdK Berlin from 1958 to 1962 . During his studies he worked in his father's architecture office and with Hans Scharoun and was involved in the design and construction of three Berlin single-family houses. In 1978 he received his doctorate on the topic: "Social elements of architecture: Type and type terms in the context of rational architecture" to become a Dr.-Ing. From 1972 to 1983 he was assistant at the chair for planning theory at RWTH Aachen University . Since 1975 he has been editor and since 1983 publisher of the Arch + magazine together with Sabine Kraft, Günther Uhlig and Marc Fester and since 1989 head of the Arch + editorial group in Berlin.

In 1988, together with Otl Aicher , he conceived and organized the Berlin Model Industrial Culture symposium .

In 1996 he was awarded the Erich Schelling Architecture Prize for the field of architectural theory, recognizing his work as publisher and editor-in-chief of Arch + , which he made the “most important forum for architectural and urbanistic discussion” in Germany.

Nikolaus Kuhnert is a member of the Board of Trustees of Shrinking Cities , an initiative project (2002–2006) to investigate shrinking cities of the Federal Cultural Foundation and a member of the Advisory Board of the Goethe Institute .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anh-Linh Ngo: Epilogue: Learning from Nikolaus Kuhnert. In: Arch + . Retrieved March 8, 2020 . 
2. ^ Nikolaus Kuhnert: ARCH + 237: Nikolaus Kuhnert: An architectural autobiography. In: Arch + . Retrieved March 8, 2020 .