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Manuel Cuadra

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.h.c. Architekt BDA a.o. CICA

Manuel Cuadra (born in 1952 in Lima, Peru) is professor of architectural history and history of the built environment at the University of Kassel in Germany, Department of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Planning. His main emphasis in teaching lies in the integrated view of architecture, the city and the built environment from the beginnings of settlement to the present.

Life

After studying architecture in Lima (1970-1976) and becoming a doctor at the TU Darmstadt (Germany, 1980–1984, 1988) he concentrated on teaching and research at the TU Darmstadt (conducted by Günter Behnisch), Heidelberg University, the Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires, the Städel School of Art in Frankfurt and the Universidad de Talca in Chile. Parallel to that he developed an extensive free activity as architectural critic, writer and curator. Because of this, Manuel Cuadra was appointed extraordinary member of the Association of German Architects BDA and a full member of the International Committee of Architectural Critics CICA – since 2008 he serves CICA as a member of the Board of Directors and since 2005 as Secretary General. In 2011 he received an honorary doctorate from the Peruvian Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería. Since 2015 he runs the DFG- Project "Träume und Räume einer Revolution / Architektur in Kuba 1959-2009: Historische und theoretische Hintergründe / Periodisierung / Referenzobjekte"^[1] . Beside his research activities in Latin America Manuel Cuadra maintains international relations inter alia to China. Since 1997 he is member in numerous price courts.

Further information

Course of lectures

Since 2006 "FUSION- Fusion - Positionen zu Architektur, Stadt und Landschaft"^[2] at the University of Kassel
2005-2007 / 2011-2012 „documenta / experimenta urbana“^[3] at the University of Kassel

Contribution to congress and lectures

CICA: International Committee of Architectural Critics [[1]] (Workshop Barcelona 1996, Istanbul 2005, Turin 2008, Shanghai 2015)
program of lectures inter alia for the Congress UIA [[2]], the Goethe-Institute [[3]] and the Didacta-Fair [[4]]

Author and Curator

Concept and editing of exhibitions, books, catalogues and essays, inter alia for

Nederlands Architectuurinstituut - NAI (Architecture and Ethics)
Deutsches Architektur Museum - DAM (Zwischen Vision und Wirklichkeit: Wohnbau heute; form follows ...; Konstruktion und Gestalt)
Association of German Architects BDA (Umgang mit Architektur der 1950er bis 1970er Jahre; International; Energie; Identität; Neues Bauen in alten Städten: Beiträge zur urbanen Planungskultur)
Chamber of Architects of Hesse - AKH

Prizes

international prize for pioneering ecological construction and urban planning in Eastern Germany

Hosted by: Artists United for Nature; Hebel Stiftung; Ministerium für Raumordnung, Städtebau und Wohnungswesen des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt. Für Bitterfeld Braunkohlebrachen: Probleme / Chancen / Visionen (1993).

literature (selection)

with the building department of the city Reutlingen (editor): Architektur um 1900 in Reutlingen. Catalogue of the same named exhibition. Reutlingen 1990.
Architektur in Lateinamerika. Die Andenstaaten im 19. und 20.Jahrhundert. Publisher Jürgen Häusser, Darmstadt 1991. ISBN 9783927902473
Bitterfeld Braunkohlebrachen. Probleme / Chancen / Visionen. Prestel publisher, Munich 1993. ISBN 3791312677
Der Kindergarten: Seine Architektur in Geschichte und Gegenwart / Anforderungen an den Kindergartenbau / Aktuelle Beispiele. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1997. ISBN 9783433021422

with Rolf, Toyka: Berlin Karl-Marx-Allee. Hintergründe ihrer Entstehung / Probleme / Visionen. Junius publisher, Hamburg 1997. ISBN 9783885062585
with the Wüstenrot foundation and the AKH (editor): Planen und Bauen: Meine Schule. Ein Werkstattbuch mit Anregungen und Anleitungen für baulustige Schülerinnen und Schüler. Ernst Klett publisher, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Leipzig 1998.
with Adam, Wilhelm: Planen und Bauen: Meine Schule. Das Lehrerheft zum Werkstattbuch. Ernst Klett publisher, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Leipzig 1998.
with Franzke, Jo. (editor): Architektur in Frankfurt. Die Bauten, das Leben, die Stadt am Ende der neunziger Jahre. Junius publisher, Hamburg 1999. ISBN 9783885062837
with the Ministry of Finance of Hesse and the AKH (editor): Planen und Bauen im Bestand. Auszeichnung vorbildlicher Bauten im Land Hessen. Wiesbaden 1999.
with Feireiss, Kristin: Clorindo Testa Architect. NAI Publishers, Rotterdam 2000. ISBN 9056621432
with BDA of the land Hesse (editor): MAX 40. BDA Architekturpreis "Junge Architekten in Hessen". Frankfurt am Main 2001.
with Flagge, Ingeborg (editor): World Airports – Weltflughäfen. Frankfurt am Main 2002. ISBN 9783885065197
with the AKH (editor): Rhein-Main-Regionale – Der Großraum Frankfurt auf dem Weg zum Kulturraum. Wiesbaden 2002. ISBN 9783885065166
Große Häuser, kleine Häuser. Catalogue of the exhibition of the BDA of the land Hesse at the DAM in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main 2003.
MAX 40. BDA Architekturpreis "Junge Architekten in Hessen". Catalogue of the exhibition of the DAM in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main 2006.
Große Häuser, kleine Häuser. Catalogue of the exhibition of the BDA of the land Hesse at the DAM in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main 2008.
Arquitectura en América Latina: Los países andinos Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador y Chile en los siglos XIX y XX. Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Lima, Peru 2011. ISBN 9789972794186
with Cachola Schmal, Peter (editor); Schneider , Till (editor); Schumacher, Michael (editor); Bucher, Kirsten: schneider+schumacher. Munich 2011.
with Wang, Wilfried (editor): Banco de Londres y América del Sud – SEPRA and Clorindo Testa. O' Neil Ford Monograph 4. Texas University at Austin. Tübingen 2012. ISBN 9783803007407

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