Ulrike Eichhorn

Ulrike Eichhorn (born April 18, 1959 in Hanover ) is a German author, architect and architecture educator. Over a period of several years, Eichhorn took a critical look at the unequal living and working situation of women architects in Germany. In addition, in her work from 2013 she provides information about the stony path women take, from their first admission to a university to practical work in the male-dominated world of architecture.

Career

Ulrike Eichhorn studied architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig in Lower Saxony from 1978 and graduated in 1986 with the architect Meinhard von Gerkan . Until the end of the 1980s she was employed as a salaried architect in the Storch Ehlers office in Hanover, in the conference center project team at Hanover Fair. Eichhorn moved to the USA in the early 1990s. There she worked at Murphy / Jahn in Chicago (Illinois).

As early as 1991 she founded the Atelier Eichhorn in Berlin, which she expanded in the following years into an agency for architecture mediation in terms of education and information.

In the years that followed, Eichhorn's interests and work increased more and more to her passion for conveying architecture in writing, photos and media. In 2010 Eichhorn started her work on the subject of “Cities and Landscapes that influenced Richard Wagner ” at the Richard Wagner site in Graupa as a scholarship holder . From 2011 to 2018 she worked for the Berlin Chamber of Architects as curator of the film series "Architecture in Film". As part of her work for the Richard Wagner site in Graupa, she took over the board of trustees for the special exhibition "Where Wagner stayed - houses and landscapes from Dresden to Prague" 2018/2019.

In 2012 she moved with her Eichhorn studio to the Oscar-Niemeyer-Haus in the Hansaviertel of Berlin. The architecturally and historically relevant building on Altonaer Strasse was designed by Oscar Niemeyer as part of the first International Building Exhibition (IBA 1957) . Here she founded Edition Eichhorn Verlag in 2013 and established the architecture salon that takes place on a regular basis.

In 2013 Eichhorn published her research on women in architecture under the title Architects. Your job. Your life. With her work, she provided a sound basis for the debate about current and historical equality in the workplace. Philippa Schindler, editor of AVIVA-Berlin, describes Eichhorn's work in the following words: “For the first time, attention is drawn to the current situation of women architects in Germany. Eichhorn does not mince words when it comes to openly addressing the traditional role assignments for working women and gives all (prospective) architects an informative, as well as substantial professional brochure ”.

Participation in architecture projects

• Hannover Messe conference center
• Munich Business Park
• Munich Airport
• American Airline Administration Building, New York
• Lufthansa headquarters, Cologne
• Office building Kudamm 119, Berlin
• Potsdamer Platz (development process)
• Friedrichstrasse station (development process)
• German Historical Museum (development process)
• Office of the Federal President (development process)
• Foreign Office , Berlin (development process)

Atelier Eichhorn

The architecture studio of Ulrike Eichhorn is established as an agency for architecture mediation in the cultural scene in Berlin. The Architecture Salon has been held here regularly since 2012. Above all, the salon establishes the connection between architecture, film, music and culture. Eichhorn provides information to those interested in culture and architecture with lectures, films and discussion panels on the building culture of different eras and influences.

Eichhorn describes the purpose of the studio to the extent that “the culture of a country is decisively shaped by its architecture and building culture. We carry them into public discourse, stimulate discussions, publish interdisciplinary and convey topics from architecture, urban planning history, building culture and the history of monuments in my salon, in print media, in film and on the Internet ”.

In her salon, Eichhorn not only dedicates herself to conveying building culture, but also makes a contribution to how less popular architectural topics can be dealt with; so found z. For example, an information evening on crowdfunding and architecture communication will take place in spring 2017 .

Edition Eichhorn Verlag

Edition Eichhorn, founded by Eichhorn in 2013 and based in Berlin, is a publisher with a focus on building culture. However, the main subjects of the publications are not, as one might assume, the buildings, but the people who create them, who influence and support them.

Eichhorn describes her personal focus as an author and building culture researcher at the publishing house as follows: “In addition to the architects whose professional profile I have examined, both historically and currently, I am interested in famous master builders and architects, whose lives I embed biographically in current events. At that time it was mostly men who were in public, but their wives, partners, and children also influenced their work and creativity. With the tracing of these masterly roots, many gems of building culture can still be found today, which are hidden in the changed cityscape, not only in Berlin, and which are to be discovered ”.

In this special holistic understanding of building culture and what influenced it in its respective time, Eichhorn developed another comprehensive work on the famous master builder of the Renaissance, Andrea Palladio, whose life and work is presented in a three-volume book edition, the "Palladio-Aldinen".

The publisher has published works on Andrea Palladio , Hans Poelzig , Oscar Niemeyer as well as Richard Wagner and Johann Wolfgang Goethe , among others .

Publications

• Architects. At work. In life. ISBN 978-3-8442-6702-0
• Oscar Niemeyer in Berlin. ISBN 978-3-8442-6954-3
• Taut & Hoffmann in Berlin. ISBN 978-3-8442-8120-0
• Erich Mendelsohn in Berlin. ISBN 978-3-8442-9024-0
• Hans Poelzig in Berlin. ISBN 978-3-8442-9823-9
• Corbusier in Berlin 1910–1911. ISBN 978-3-7375-0545-1
• VOL. 1, Palladio in Veneto. ISBN 978-3-944377-10-0
• VOL. 2, Palladio in Rome. ISBN 978-3-944377-11-7
• VOL. 3, Palladio's retrospective. ISBN 978-3-944377-12-4
• Architecture icons, Icons of architecture. ISBN 978-3-8442-8120-0

Memberships and engagement

• Berlin Chamber of Architects
• Network for architects and planners, n-ails
• Network architects for architects
• Friends of the Federal Foundation for Building Culture eV
• Friends of the Hansaviertel

swell

• Depreciation. Active for architecture: Architects for Architects , Berlin [accessed April 2, 2020]
• Deutschlandfunk: in an interview with Dr. Joachim Scholl “Nuances” June 3, 2018
• DAB regional 08/13, 45th year: regional edition east of the Deutsches Architektenblatt, Berlin; PDF [accessed April 2, 2020]

Individual evidence

1. ^ Philippa Schindler: Ulrike Eichhorn - architects. Your job. Your life . Review of February 12, 2014 on AVIVA-Berlin - online magazine and information portal for women aviva-berlin.de, accessed on April 2, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Eichhorn, Ulrike: Atelier Eichhorn. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .