Philipp Meuser

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Philipp Meuser (born August 24, 1969 in Hilden ) is a German architect , publisher and university professor .

Life

Philipp Meuser studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin from 1991 to 1995 . He was a scholarship holder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in the promotion of young journalists. After internships at WDR in Cologne and at Bauwelt , he worked as a freelance editor in the features section of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung from 1995 to 1996 . He completed an extra-occupational postgraduate degree in the history and theory of architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich . Doctorate with a research thesis on Soviet housing construction between Stalin and Glasnost. From 1996 to 2001, Philipp Meuser was political advisor to the Senator for Urban Development within the framework of the Stadtforum Berlin. In 2000 he was appointed to the Association of German Architects (BDA). Meuser has been a member of the Deutscher Werkbund since 2014. Teaching activities in Russia , Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan . Since 2018 Meuser has held an honorary professorship at the OM Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv in Ukraine . Curatorial activity for the city of Cologne (perspectives on the right bank of the Rhine, 2011) and the German Architecture Museum (architecture and design for Soviet space travel, 2015). Research assignment from the Federal Foreign Office on the subject of material security for German missions abroad (2013). His research focus is also on Soviet space travel. Together with his wife Natascha Meuser , he founded the Meuser Architects office in Berlin , which specializes in the planning and project management of specially protected buildings at home and abroad. Since 2004 the office has taken on international planning and construction projects, especially for embassies in Central Asia, Eastern Europe and West Africa, since 2012 with a focus on crisis regions (including Libya, Mali and Yemen). He also founded the architecture publishing house DOM publishers in 2005 together with Natascha Meuser . His specialty are publications on architecture in regions that are not the focus of public discussion, in particular on the history of building in the area of ​​the former Soviet Union , or the architecture of Africa and the Muslim world. The architecture guide on Pyongyang attracted particular attention.

Awards

In 2017 Philipp Meuser received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon from Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier for cultural and scientific exchange with the successor states of the Soviet Union (handed out in 2018).

Publications (selection)

  • Philipp Meuser: From the airfield to the Wiesenmeer - history and future of Tempelhof Airport. Quintessenz Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-8148-0085-0 .
  • Philipp Meuser: New Garden Design in Berlin (New Garden Design in Berlin) . Nicolai'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-87584-054-2 .
  • Rainer Haubrich / Hans Wolfgang Hoffmann / Philipp Meuser: Berlin - The architecture guide . Edon Ullstein List Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-88679-355-9 .
  • Philipp Meuser: Longing for Europe. Urban sketches from Africa, America and Asia . Verlagshaus Braun, Salenstein 2003. ISBN 978-3935455244 .
  • Philipp Meuser: Schlossplatz Eins: European School of Management and Technology = Schlossplatz One: European School of Management and Technology , DOM publishers, Berlin 2006, ISBN 393866603X .
  • Philipp Meuser (ed.): Signage and pictograms . Manual and planning aid, DOM publishers, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86922-025-3 .
  • Natascha Meuser / Philipp Meuser: Meuser Architects: Buildings and Projects 1995 - 2010 / Buildings and Projects 1995 - 2010 . DOM publishers, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3869221502 .
  • Philipp Meuser (ed.): Architectural guide Pyongyang. 2 volumes. DOM publishers, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86922-126-7 .
  • Philipp Meuser (Ed.): Hospital buildings, health buildings. 2 volumes. DOM publishers, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86922-134-2 .
  • Philipp Meuser (ed.): Barrier-free building. Manual and planning aid. DOM publishers, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3869221694 .
  • Philipp Meuser (ed.): Architecture for Russian space travel. From constructivism to cosmonautics . DOM Publishers, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86922-219-6 .
  • Philipp Meuser (Ed.): Architectural Guide Kazakhstan . DOM publishers, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86922-272-1 , pp. 151 .
  • Philipp Meuser: Galina Balaschowa: architect of the Soviet space program . DOM publishers, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3869223452 .
  • Philipp Meuser: The aesthetics of the plate. Housing construction in the Soviet Union between Stalin and Glasnost . DOM publishers, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3869223995 .
  • Philipp Meuser: medical practices. Manual and planning aid . DOM publishers, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3869223384 .
  • Philipp Meuser: Industrial Housing: Manual and Planning Aid . DOM publishers, Berlin 2018. ISBN 978-3869224190 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release of the TU Berlin from July 3, 1996.
  2. ^ Philipp Meuser: The aesthetics of the plate. Housing construction in the Soviet Union between Stalin and Glasnost . DOM publishers, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3869223995 .
  3. ↑ www.faz.net Review of Philipp Meuser's book on architecture and design in Russian space travel.
  4. ↑ Entry on the Embassy in Astana on the homepage of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning
  5. ↑ Corinne Elsesser: In unusual ways. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 28, 2017.
  6. ↑ Thomas Loy: Invitation to a Forbidden City . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . May 9, 2011, ISSN  1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed May 26, 2018]).
  7. ^ Nikolaus Bernau: Insight into an isolated country . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed on May 26, 2018]).
  8. ↑ www.buchmarkt.de
personal data
SURNAME Meuser, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, publisher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Hilden