Regula Lüscher

Regula Lüscher, 2009

Regula Lüscher (born October 9, 1961 in Basel ) is a Swiss architect and urban planner . She is Senate Building Director of Berlin with the rank of State Secretary in the Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing . Lüscher has also had German citizenship since 2016 .

Life

After graduating from high school in Basel in 1980 , she studied architecture at the ETH Zurich . She then worked in an architecture office in Zurich and then in Adolf Krischanitz's studio in Vienna . From 1989 to 1998 she ran her own architecture office in Zurich together with Patrick Gmür .

In 1998 she left the office and moved to administration: She worked for the Office for Urban Development of the City of Zurich - first as Head of Architecture and Urban Development, from 2000 as Head of Urban Planning and from 2001 to 2007 as Deputy Director. There she developed, among other things, the Zurich West commercial area into a new residential and service district.

Since March 1, 2007, she has been Senate Building Director with the rank of State Secretary in the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing . She thus became the successor of Hans Stimmann . The Senator for Urban Development Ingeborg Junge-Reyer brought Lüscher from Zurich because she “proved herself to be technically competent” and acquired an “excellent reputation” in the town planning department there. The subsequent Senator for Urban Development and the Environment , in Senate Wowereit IV , Michael Müller , had confirmed Lüscher as one of the few State Secretaries in office as Senate Building Director , and his successor Andreas Geisel in Senate Müller I continued to work with her. Also in the new red-red-green Berlin Senate from 2016, she kept this office under Senator Katrin Lompscher (Die Linke). In 2018, Lüscher took a three-month break that she spent in Switzerland.

In 2011, Regula Lüscher was appointed honorary professor at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK) . The appointment was justified with the great expertise, competence and excellent networking in the field of urban development.

Regula Lüscher is a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA) and of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning (DASL).

Regula Lüscher, who lives in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, has been married to a Swiss citizen who lives in Switzerland since January 5, 2013.

Teaching

• 1989–2007: Lecturer in architectural design and urban planning at the ETH Zurich and various universities of applied sciences in Switzerland
• 2012: Honorary Professor at the University of the Arts Berlin, Department of Urban Renewal

criticism

Regula Lüscher stands - in the tradition of the ETH Zurich - for urban design that is based on the Bauhaus or New Building of the mid-20th century. She largely rejects historical references to building traditions and the contextualization of the cityscape before the Second World War, as well as reconstructions . As a judge, she implemented a minimalist, reduced environment design for the Humboldt Forum , which completely dispenses with the historical elements ( Neptune fountain , sculptures, terraces) that still exist , but essentially consists of a continuously paved area. She justified her decision by stating that the castle must be made recognizable as a “project of the 21st century” and that it must also have sufficient parking space for coaches.

Regula Lüscher also drew criticism because of the way the building staff she directed worked. The decision-making paths are "non-transparent" or take place in the "semi-darkness" and the result always comes down to the same architects preferred by Regula Lüscher. However, a publication by the Berlin Senate draws a positive interim assessment of the building committee.

Publications

• Regula Lüscher (Hrsg.): "... really great opera!" The State Opera Unter den Linden from 2010 to 2017. A documentation. DOM publishers, Berlin, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86922-502-9 .
• Regula Lüscher (Ed.): Baukollegium Berlin, advising, mediating, convincing in a complex building process (authors Sonja Beeck, Martin Peschken, Jürgen Willinghöfer) Jovis Verlag, Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86859-441-6 .
• Kristin Feireiss , Oliver G. Hamm in cooperation with the Senate Department for Urban Development, Regula Lüscher (ed.): Transforming Cities, Urban Interventions in Public Space , Jovis Verlag, Berlin, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86859-337-2
• Kristien Ring in cooperation with the Senate Department for Urban Development, Regula Lüscher (Ed.): Urban Living, Strategies for Future Living , Jovis Verlag, Berlin, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86859-331-0 .
• Franz Eberhard, Regula Lüscher (Ed.): Zurich builds. Conceptual urban planning (authors Angelus Eisinger and Iris Reuther ) Birkhäuser, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-7996-4 .

Committees, supervisory boards and memberships

• Supervisory Board BIM Berliner Immobilienmanagement , Deputy Chairwoman
• Supervisory Board Housing Association Berlin-Mitte (WBM), Chairwoman of the Building Committee
• Administrative Committee of the Bauhaus Archive
• Board of Trustees for National Urban Development Policy
• Advisory board for the Federal Building Culture Foundation
• Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Board of Trustees of the Berlin Palace Foundation - Humboldt Forum
• Board of Trustees of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation
• Baukollegium Berlin, chairwoman
• State Monument Council, Berlin
• Member of numerous juries for urban planning and architectural competitions
• Member of the Association of German Architects (BDA)
• Member of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning (DASL)
• Member of the Urban Land Institute Germany (ULI)

Awards

• 2012: Urban Land Institute (ULI), award of the golden ginko leaf, ULI Germany Leadership Award "ULI award for Senate Building Director Lüscher"

Web links

• Official curriculum vitae In: Internet presence of the Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing of the State of Berlin.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Regula Lüscher remains in office! In: BZ December 6, 2016, accessed December 6, 2016 . 
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4. ↑ Regula Lüscher in "Senate Building Director Regula Lüscher becomes honorary professor at the University of the Arts Berlin"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , UDK press release, December 20, 2011
5. ↑ Access of December 15, 2014: [3]
6. ↑ Press release: Open space competition around the Humboldt Forum decided. Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, January 16, 2013, accessed on November 18, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Manfred Rettig: The Neptune Fountain belongs in front of the castle. Wilhelm v. Boddien, Friends of the Berlin Palace e. V., accessed on November 18, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Thomas Loy: Cobblestones everywhere: This is what the new Schlossplatz looks like. In: Der Tagesspiegel . June 12, 2015, accessed November 18, 2016 . 
9. ^ Wilhelm von Boddien: Berlin Palace bus station. Friends of the Berlin Palace V., September 2016, accessed on November 18, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Hans Kollhoff: "We need a new Karl-Marx-Allee". In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 30, 2016, accessed November 18, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Ralf Schön Ball: The Baufrau of Berlin. Regula Lüscher wants to remain Senate Building Director even after the election. Many appreciate them - and still complain about a lack of courage in new buildings. In: Der Tagesspiegel . June 26, 2016. Retrieved November 18, 2016 . 
12. ^ Andreas Kilb: Urban planning in Berlin: The guardian of the fallows . The Berlin Senate Building Director Regula Lüscher has no vision for the future of the city. She would rather preserve the architectural legacy of the GDR. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 19, 2013, p. Features, page 24 .
13. ^ Jürgen Tietz: The Berlin building college. Urban culture as a culture of discussion. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 5, 2017. Retrieved April 5, 2017 .