Meixner Schlüter Wendt Architekten Explained

Area Served:worldwide
Founded: in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Hq Location City:Frankfurt
Hq Location Country:Germany
Industry:architecture firm
Meixner Schlüter Wendt Architekten
Num Employees:~50
Products:Architecture, Urban design
Type:Privately held company (GmbH)

Meixner Schlüter Wendt Architekten (the company's preferred way of writing it is MEIXNER SCHLÜTER WENDT Architekten) is a German architecture firm based in Frankfurt. The company's projects have received awards the World Architecture Festival in 2008[1] and at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2004, 2006 and 2012.[2] [3]

History

Since it was first founded in Frankfurt in 1997 the office has been managed by its three partners Claudia Meixner, Florian Schlüter and Martin Wendt.[4] With its early, somewhat smaller projects the firm already elicited great interest among the specialist media. Today, its work ranges from exhibition design, architectural planning and design in the urban context, industrial buildings, schools, churches, cultural and residential buildings, all the way to residential high-rises.In parallel, Claudia Meixner and Florian Schlüter hold lectures at various organizations and have also taught at the university level.[5] [6]

Architecture

Very diverse in formal terms,[7] the buildings by Meixner Schlüter Wendt have two basic things in common: They leave a very strong sculptural impression on viewers and they react to their contexts with sensitivity. Meixner Schlüter Wendt resolves this apparent conflict by using methods, principles, and strategies which are – according to design expert Lilli Hollein – established practice in the world of visual arts but, by contrast, rather unusual for German architecture firms.[8] One common practice at the practice is to play calculated games with levels of perception. To this end, in their design process, the architects evoke specific associations with what is particular to a certain location and the relevant construction brief, associations which are the result of observing and analyzing everyday things or rather the way they are arranged.[9] This can, for instance, include recourse to conventional building typologies and to well-known techniques from the history of construction, such as the kind of encrustations[10] or reliefs[11] which Meixner Schlüter Wendt sees as intellectual ready-mades, something which they can reinterpret and transform into buildings of a completely new kind.[12] [13] [14] As a reaction to the differing heights of the surroundings in Frankfurt's Europaviertel, for the Axis project, for instance, the architects combined a slim high-rise, a multistory building and a row of terraced houses to form a "perimeter block high-rise".[15] [16] In the case of the "Schmuck" detached family residence in Frankfurt's Westend district, by contrast, the firm transformed the typologies that are the "Hofreite" (a kind of courtyard ensemble), the patio house and the villa into a more complex "living space sculpture", including in the process the connecting walls of the neighboring buildings.[17] [18] [19] To use another example, in 2003, a pontoon served as the inspiration for the Café des Licht- und Luftbades (Light and Air Bath Café) on the banks of the flood-prone river Main in Frankfurt's Niederrad district, the kind of ship-like construction that will float if there is flooding.[20] [21] [22] In the case of the partial dismantlement of the Dornbuschkirche, the church in the eponymous district of Dornbusch, Meixner Schlüter Wendt reproduced what used to be the nave of the church in a new relief wall, thus preserving people's memories of the demolished section of the structure in the form of an impression in the new architecture.[23] For the reinterpretation of the Henniger Turm, which was knocked down in 2013, the firm also reacted to collective memories.[24] Whereas both the contours and the side facing the city are strongly reminiscent of the original appearance of the old silo, the three other sides indicate the new building's function as a residential tower.[25] [26] [27]

Buildings (selection)

Awards (selection)

Useful links

Notes

  1. Web site: World Architecture Festival Awards – WAF 2008 . Lomholt . Isabelle . 7 July 2016 . e-architect . 15 October 2018. .
  2. Book: Petzet . Muck . Heilmeyer . Florian . 2012 . Reduce/Reuse/Recycle: Ressource Architektur . de, en . Ostfildern, Berlin . Hatje Cantz Verlag . 978-3-7757-3424-0.
  3. Santifaller . Enrico . 2013 . Kontextuelle Skulpturen – Werkbericht Meixner Schlüter Wendt . de . DBZ – Deutsche Bauzeitschrift . 63 . August . 1 July 2019.
  4. Web site: meixner-schlueter-wendt.de/curriculum vitae . 1 July 2019.
  5. Web site: Wir müssen reden! . 2013 . Karlsruher Institut für Technologie . de . 10 July 2019 .
  6. News: Schlepper . Boris . 7 October 2017 . Wohnen am Danziger Platz . de . . 10 July 2019.
  7. Book: 10 x 10: 100 architects, 10 critics . 3 . Phaidon . London, New York . 2009 . 224–227 . 978-0-7148-6252-1 .
  8. Hollein. Lilli . 2006 . The Void & the Volume . Mark . 2 . 4 . 60–75.
  9. Meixner . Claudia . Schlüter . Florian . Wendt . Martin . 2009 . Alles ist Umbau . . 49 . 11 . 1154f . de.
  10. Santifaller . Enrico . 2005 . Haus Wohlfahrt-Laymann: Um- und Neubau eines Wohnhauses in Oberursel . de . Bauwelt . 96 . 26 . 29–33 . 10 July 2019.
  11. Holl . Christian . 2006 . Rückbau einer Kirche – körperhaftes Abwesendes . de . Tec 21 . 132 . 10 . 12 .
  12. Schmitz . Rudolf . 11 July 2005 . Vitalisierender Teilabbruch. Der gelungene Umbau eines Frankfurter Gotteshauses . . de . 34 .
  13. Book: Lederer . Arno . Hintze . Bettina . 2004 . Futteralkoffer zum Wohnen. Wohnhaus in Mühltal-Trautheim . Die besten Einfamilienhäuser unter 150 qm . de . Munich . Callwey Verlag . 82–85. 978-3-7667-1598-2.
  14. Hollein . Lilli . 2006 . The Envelope . Mark . 1 . 2 . 171–175.
  15. Boeckl . Matthias . April 2017 . Axis Wohnhochhaus . de . Architektur.aktuell . 50 . 4 . 90–101 .
  16. Heilmeyer . Florian . April 2017 . Slab Revamp . Mark . 12 . 67 . 62–71.
  17. Santifaller . Enrico . 2011 . Wohnraumskulptur. Wohnhaus für eine Familie . de . DBZ Deutsche Bauzeitschrift . 61 . 5 . 34–42. 10 July 2019.
  18. Book: Bartetzko . Daniel . Schmal . Peter . Gräwe . Christina . Deutsches Architektur German Architecture Annual 2011/2012 . de, en . Munich, Berlin, London, New York . Prestel Verlag . 2011 . 108–113 . Wohnhaus Schmuck . 978-3-7913-5135-3.
  19. Hamm . Oliver . 26 May 2011 . Eine Oase: Das neue Haus Schmuck im Frankfurter Westend . . de . 33 .
  20. Book: Meixner Schlüter Wendt Architekten . Albus . Volker . Franzke . Jo. . Architektur in Frankfurt am Main 1999–2003 . de . Hamburg . Junius Verlag . 2002 . 216–217 . Licht + Luftbad Niederrad, Frankfurt am Main . 3-88506-522-3.
  21. Book: Klanten . Robert . Feireiss . Lukas . Spacecraft. Fleeting Architecture and Hideouts . en, de . Berlin . Die Gestalten Verlag . 2007 . 32 . 978-3-89955-192-1.
  22. Santifaller . Enrico . 2007 . Schwimmfähige Gebrauchsplastik. Imbissgebäude für das Licht- und Luftbad in Niederrad . de . Werk, Bauen + Wohnen . 94 . 7–8 . 34–39. 1 July 2019.
  23. Web site: unsere kiche – ein besonderer Ort . Evangelische Dornbuschgemeinde . 22 December 2012 . de . 1 July 2019.
  24. Web site: Der neue Henninger Turm bleibt ein Wahrzeichen . Wagner . Thomas . 28 April 2014 . Stylepark . de . 1 July 2019.
  25. Kleilein . Doris . 2017 . Die Hochhausdebatte . de . Bauwelt . 108 . 10 . 40–49 . 1 July 2019.
  26. Santifaller . Enrico . 2018 . Neuer Henniger Turm . de . . 7 . 34 . 58–67.
  27. Russ . Alexander . 2019 . Die gläserne Dame . de . Baumeister . 107 . 5 . 32–43.
  28. . 2012 . Architecture in Germany 2000–2012. A+U (Architecture and Urbanism) . 13:01/508 . 70–73 . ja, en.
  29. Book: Brooker . Graeme . Stone . Sally . Re-readings 2: Interior Architecture and the Principles of Remodelling Existing Buildings. London . RIBA Publishing . 2017 . 48–49 . Dornbusch Church. 978-1-85946-581-3.
  30. Book: Klanten . Robert . Feireiss . Lukas . Closer to God. Religious Architecture and Sacred Spaces . en, de . Berlin . Die Gestalten Verlag . 2010 . 150–151 . 978-3-89955-313-0.
  31. Book: Delsante . Ioanni . ri-generazione/re-generation . it, en . Milan . La Triennale di Milano . 2012 . 110–113 . Wohlfahrt-Laymann Dwelling . 978-88-89861-01-1.
  32. Book: Astorg Bollack . Françoise . Old Buildings, New Forms . New York . The Monacelli Press . 2013 . 134–139 . Wohlfahrt-Laymann House . 978-1-58093-369-8 .
  33. Web site: Residential House of the Month: Residence F. . Spencer . Ingrid . 15 November 2010 . . 5 August 2019 .
  34. Brensing . Christian . 2008 . Off the radar . . 112 . 4 . 86–88.
  35. Santifaller. Enrico . 30 October 2009 . Musik in der verwalteten Welt . . de . 33 .
  36. Heilmeyer. Florian . 2011 . Tour de Force . Mark . 7 . 31 . 160–169.
  37. Book: Kramer . Sibylle . Exhibition Design . Salenstein . Braun Publishing . 2014 . 44–47 . Ding-Raum MMK . 978-3-03768-170-1.
  38. Ingram . Tracey . 2012 . Camouflaged Cutouts . . 15 . 89 . 75–76.
  39. Book: Henry . Steven . Wood . Antony . Tall Buildings + Urban Habitat, Volume 1 . Chicago . . 2018 . 144–145 . 978-0-939493-62-3.
  40. Book: Körner . Peter . Liesner . Maximilian . Schmal . Peter . Best Highrises 2018/19: The International Highrise Award 2018 – Internationaler Hochhaus Preis 2018 . de, en . Munich, Berlin, London, New York . Prestel Verlag . 2018 . 106–107 . New Henniger Turm . 978-3-7913-5831-4.
  41. Web site: Profil / Meixner Schlüter Wendt . Home / Meixner Schlüter Wendt . de . 27 February 2022.
  42. Web site: FIABCI Prix d'Excellence Germany, Preisträger 2017 . de . 8 July 2019.

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