Lucius Burckhardt

Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) was a sociologist, economist, theorist of architecture and design and the founder of strollology (Promenadologie).

Born in Davos in 1925, PhD in Basel, was, as of 1955, scientific assistant at the Social Research Center of Münster University in Dortmund. After a guest lectureship at Ulm School of Design in 1959, he undertook several teaching assignments from 1961 to 1973 and later on guest lectureships in sociology at Architecture Department of ETH Zurich. From 1962 to 1973, he simultaneously worked as editor-in-chief of the journal Werk. From 1976 to 1983, Burckhardt was First President of German Werkbund, as of 1973, professor of socio-economics of urban systems at Gesamthochschule Kassel. He was corresponding member of German Academy for Urban and Regional Spatial Planning, Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, member of the Foundation Committee of Saar University of Visual Arts from 1987 to 1989, and founding dean of the Design Faculty at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, from 1992 to 1994. In 1994, his work was awarded with the Hessian Culture Prize for outstanding achievements in the realms of science, ecology, and aesthetics, the 1995 Federal Prize for Design Promoters, and the Swiss Design Prize 2001. In 2003, Burckhardt died in Basel. Annemarie Burckhardt, married to Lucius and working with him since 1955, died on 15 July 2012. (Source).

Publications

(in German unless noted)

• with Markus Kutter, Wir selber bauen unsere Stadt. Ein Hinweis auf die Möglichkeiten staatlicher Baupolitik, Basel: F. Handschin, 1953.
• with Max Frisch and Markus Kutter, Achtung: die Schweiz, Basel: F. Handschin, 1955.
• with Max Frisch and Markus Kutter, Die neue Stadt, Basel: F. Handschin, 1956.
• Reise ins Risorgimento, Cologne and Berlin, 1959.
• with Walter Förderer, Bauen ein Prozess, Teufen, 1968.
• with Annemarie Burckhardt and Diego Peverelli, Moderne Architektur in der Schweiz seit 1900, Winterthur, 1969.
• Der Werkbund in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, Stuttgart, 1978.
  • trans. into Italian, French, and English.
• editor, with Michael Andritzky and Ot Hoffmann, Für eine andere Architektur, Frankfurt/Main, 1981.
• Die Kinder fressen ihre Revolution, ed. Bazon Brock, Cologne: DuMont, 1985.
• Le design au-delà du visible, Paris, 1991. (French)
• Design = unsichtbar, ed. Hans Höger, Ostfildern, 1995.
• Wer plant die Planung? Architektur, Politik und Mensch, eds. Jesko Fezer and Martin Schmitz, Berlin: Martin Schmitz, 2004.
• Warum ist Landschaft schön? Die Spaziergangswissenschaft, eds. Markus Ritter and Martin Schmitz, Berlin: Martin Schmitz, 2006.
• Design ist unsichtbar. Entwurf, Gesellschaft und Pädagogik, eds. Silvan Blumenthal and Martin Schmitz, Berlin: Martin Schmitz, 2012.
• Writings: Rethinking Man-made Environments, Vienna and New York: Springer, 2012. (English) Review: Förster.
• Der kleinstmögliche Eingriff, eds. Markus Ritter and Martin Schmitz, Berlin: Martin Schmitz, 2013.
• Why is Landscape Beautiful? The Science of Strollology, Basel: Birkhäuser, 2015, 320 pp. [1] (English)

Bibliography

• at martin-schmitz-verlag.de
• at lucius-burckhardt.org

Literature

• Silvan Blumenthal, Das Lehrcanapé. Lucius Burckhardt und das Architektenbild an der ETH Zürich 1970–1973, Standpunkte Dokumente 2, Basel, 2010.
• Ueli Mäder, Raum und Macht. Die Stadt zwischen Vision und Wirklichkeit. Leben und Wirken von Lucius und Annemarie Burckhardt, Zürich: Rotpunktverlag, 2014, 304 pp. [2]

Links

• http://www.lucius-burckhardt.org
• Lucius Burckhardt Convention 2014
• http://www.munzinger.de/search/go/document.jsp?id=00000007602