Architecture and the European City

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Presented by School of Architecture

Modernist “dissolution” has atomized the urban fabric. Architect Christoph Mäckler proposes a return to the traditional European block. Through his “wing house” research, Mäckler demonstrates how high-density urbanism reduces infrastructure by 40% while creating 10,000-square-meter internal parks, restoring beauty and efficiency to modern living.

Speaker:
Christoph Mäckler, Urban Planner, Founder & Managing Director of Mäckler Architekten

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Meet the Speaker: Christoph Mäckler

Christoph Mäckler was born in 1951 in Frankfurt. He studied Architecture at TH Aachen and graduated in 1980. In 1981, he founded Christoph Mäckler Architekten in Frankfurt. The office has since then evolved into a leading architecture and urban studio known well beyond the borders of Frankfurt. Nowadays, a staff of about 60 plans and designs buildings for municipal, commercial and private clients throughout Germany. Some members of the team focus specifically on urban planning projects, studies and research. Their list of completed projects includes numerous structures of national importance. 

Christoph Mäckler has been teaching at the TU Dortmund since 1998. He was a guest professor in Naples, at TU Braunschweig and at the University of Hannover. In addition to his work at the studio, he has been contributing to the contemporary architecture debate. In 2008 he founded the German Institute for the Art of Urban Design and has been working as a consultant for several cities.

Urbanism as Civic Art

Read more about Mäckler’s recently translated book “Urbanism as a Civic Art” published with the school’s Ratio et Architectura series at this link.