Werner Sewing

Werner Sewing (born January 2, 1951 in Bielefeld ; † July 27, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German architectural theorist .

Life

Werner Sewing studied sociology, history and political science at Bielefeld University and the Free University of Berlin . At the Technical University of Berlin he became involved with the work Politics of Architecture: an action-theoretical foundation of the sociology of architecture; PhD with a case study on "Berlin architecture" .

From 1992 to 1995 he taught urban and architectural sociology at the Bauhaus University Weimar . From 1995 to 2001 he taught architectural sociology at the TU Berlin. He was visiting professor for architectural history at the University of California, Berkeley (2000) and guest reviews at the Architectural Association London (2001) and at the Bauhauskolleg Dessau (2001/02). From 2002 to 2005 Sewing was visiting professor for architectural sociology and architectural theory at the Berlin University of the Arts . After a substitute chair for the history and theory of architecture and the city in 2004 at the TU Braunschweig , he took over the Alcatel / SEL guest professorship at the International Center for Culture and Technology Research (IZKT) at the University of Stuttgart . In 2002 and 2004 he was a guest lecturer in the Berlin Studio of the University of Kentucky , and since 2003 has also been a lecturer in urban sociology in the postgraduate course Real Estate Management (REM) at the TU Berlin. In 2008 he took over the professorship for architectural theory at the Faculty of Architecture of the KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and since 2010 has been the managing director of the Institute for Design, Art and Theory.

Sewing was involved in the BDA Berlin and was a member of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning , chairman of the board of the Federal Foundation for Building Culture , and from 2003 to 2007 a member of the board of the Baukultur Convention. Since 2011 he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Schelling Architecture Foundation in Karlsruhe.

Awards

In 2006 he was awarded the Erich Schelling Architecture Prize.

Fonts (selection)

• (Ed.): Back to the city. A Berlin architecture reading book , Berlin 2002. ISBN 978-3931321789 .
• Image direction. Architecture between retro design and event culture , Bauwelt Fundamente Volume 126, Gütersloh 2003. ISBN 978-3-7643-6904-0 .
• Architecture: Sculpture , Munich 2004. ISBN 978-3-7913-3037-2 .
• Essay: Individual in series - The row house as a built paradox of modernity , in: Daniel Arnold (ed.): In German row houses , 2008 ( ISBN 978-3-7667-1790-0 )
• Article: Housing , in: Bettina Götz (ed.): Before Architecture. Vor der Architektur , Vienna 2008. ISBN 978-3-211-09425-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Sewing in the catalog of the German National Library
• Werner Sewing. In: arch INFORM .
• Werner Sewing on the website of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Benedikt Hotze: Berlin architecture: On the death of Werner Sewing , BauNetz, July 29, 2011
• Ursula Baus: Werner Sewing (1951–2011) , german-architects, August 24, 2011