Dr. Gernot Weckherlin

Freie Universität Berlin

International Summer and Winter University

(FUBiS)

g.weckherlin[at]berlin.de

Homepage

University of Applied Sciences Anhalt
www.weckherlin.eu

Gernot Weckherlin studied architecture in Munich, London and Briey en Forêt and is a chartered architect in Berlin since 2002. He has taught architectural history and theory at Bauhaus-University Weimar, UdK Berlin, Beuth-Hochschule Berlin and Bauhaus Foundation Dessau/ University of Applied Sciences Anhalt and writes for various architectural magazines including Architektenblatt, Bauwelt, Deutsche Bauzeitung. He is a founder member of Netzwerk Architekturwissenschaft, an interdisciplinary research group for architectural studies, member of the German Studies Association (GSA), and of the DAAD Alumni-Network. From 2015 to 2019 he was Visiting Prof. for Theory of Architecture at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus. Currently he is teaching as Visiting Prof. for Theory of Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences Anhalt Dessau.

Current FUBiS courses:

Architecture in Berlin: A Walk through History (FUBiS Term III 2025)

2013
PhD. Graduation Thesis (summa cum laude) Bauhaus-University Weimar

Since 2011
Founding and executive member (2011–2017) of Network Architekturwissenschaft e.V.

Since 2002
Freelance architect and author

1993 - 1994
DAAD post graduate program
Laboratory of Primary Studies in Architecture, (Prof. Don Bates, Briey, France)

1992 - 1993
Work in architect’s office
Project management: Kindergarten Amendestr. 40 Berlin Reinickendorf, Prof. W. Wentzel BDA, Berlin, competitions and building renovation.

1990
Studio Raoul Bunschoten, Working for the project: „The Skin of the Earth“, London/ Moscow, 1990

1985 - 1992
University studies in architecture, TU München, Diploma Graduation.

1990
ERASMUS scholarship PCL London (1990)
Class Kevin Rowbotham

1983 - 1985
Vocational Training in Carpentry, Trade examination (Gesellenprüfung)

Since 2017
Guest Lecturer at Hochschule Anhalt/Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, COOP Design Research Program
Since 2015
Visiting Prof., Chair Theory of Architecture at B-TU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Faculty of Architecture
Since 2014
Lecturer: FU Berlin: FUBiS and FU/BEST program
2006 - 2008
Lecturer at Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Berlin; History of Architecture 19th and 20th century; Lecturer at UdK Berlin
2005 - 2006
Research assistant, department History and Theory of architecture at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2004
Substitute lecturer for Prof. Kurt W. Forster at Bauhaus-University Weimar due to his commitments as director of the Architecture Biennale in Venice
1996 - 2000
Research assistant, departement History and Theory of architecture
(Prof. Marco de Michelis), Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

1995
Lecturer TU Dresden, Theory of Architecture

Chapters in Books (selected)

„Standardisierung 4.0 in der Architektur.“ In: Ekkehard Drach (ed.): Das Verschwinden des Architekten. Zur architektonischen Praxis im digitalen Zeitalter, Bielefeld 2016, p. 175–184.
with Walter Prigge: „Ernst Neuferts Bauentwurfslehre. Zu den modernen Dispositiven der Optimierung, Disziplinierung und Gleichschaltung.“ In: Der Lehrbuchdiskurs über das Bauen, ed. by Uta Hassler, Zürich 2015, p. 244–261.
„Architekten und Wursthändler.“ In: Sabine Ammon, Eva Maria Froschauer, Julia Gill, Constanze Petrow (ed.): z.B. Humboldt-Box. Zwanzig architekturwissenschaftliche Essays mit einer Fotodokumentation von Anja Nitz, Bielefeld 2013, p. 50–58.

Forthcoming

„The ‘Queen of Engineering‘ speeding up Design Procedures. Max Mayer’s ‚Science of Management’ and its Impact on Modernist Architectural Design in Germany.“ In: Dorn, Ralf, Lorenz, Werner, May, Roland Ed.): Architect and Engineer in the Interwar Period 1919–1939.
„Das Glaslager der Lausitzer Glaswerke und das Haus Kindt in Weißwasser.“ In: Bauhaus-Spuren in Sachsen,Grassimuseum, Leipzig 2019.

Books

Architekturführer Thüringen: Vom Bauhaus bis zum Jahr 2000.

(Team of authors: Elke Dallmann, Mark Escherich, Carla Fehr, Nicola Siebert, Beate Wahl, Gernot Weckherlin, Ulrich Wieler), Weimar 2000.

2nd revised edition. Published 2001, out of print.

Architekturführer Thüringen 2. Vom Bauhaus bis heute. (Team of authors: Elke Dallmann, Mark Escherich, Carla Fehr, Nicola Siebert, Beate Wahl, Gernot Weckherlin, Ulrich Wieler), Weimar 2006.

BEL. Zur Systematik des architektonischen Wissens – am Beispiel von Ernst Neuferts Bauentwurfslehre. Tübingen 2017.

Produktionsbedingungen der Architektur. Zwischen Autonomie und Heteronomie. (Ed. with Tilo Amhoff and Henrik Hilbig), Dresden 2018.

Handbuch Architekturwissenschaft (Ed. with Michael Dürfeld and Network Architekturwissenschaft, 2018).

Architekturführer Thüringen 3. (2018/19, team of authors like 2006).

Periodicals (selected)

„Raus aus der Komfortzone des Gewohnten.“ In: Bauwelt, no. 39/2016, p. 12–13.
„Sizilianischer Geheimtipp. Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo im Innsbrucker Architekturzentrum aut.“ In: Bauwelt, no. 31/2014, p. 4.
„Neuferts Quelle.“ In: Deutsches Architektenblatt, no. 8/2014, p. 28–29.
„Nach außen leuchtet der Solitär.“ In: Bauwelt, no. 22/2014, p. 28–29.