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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Annette Menting

Annette Menting is an architectural historian and critic. After studying architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts, she worked in the architectural office of Hinrich Baller and von Gerkan, Marg and Partners. 1997 Doctorate with Jonas Geist at the UdK Berlin on the work of Paul G. R. Baumgarten. DFG habilitation scholarship for research on the complete works of Max Taut. Since 2000, she has been Professor of Architectural History and Criticism at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences. Memberships: Saxon Academy of Arts, Association of German Architects, Working Group for Theory and Teaching of Monument Conservation, German National Committee of ICOMOS and jury member for architectural competitions. Research and publications on the architectural history of modernism, monument preservation and contemporary building culture. Since 2016, together with Barbara Büscher, she has headed the DFG research project "Architecture and Space for the Performing Arts", which has been in its second funding phase since summer 2021 until 2024.

Publications (selection)

• Topology Chemnitz. Venues in the urban context. ARBEITSHEFT #3: Urban topologies and venues for the performing arts, Qucosa/Open Access publication 2021.
• Series ARBEITSHEFTE Architecture and Space for the Performing Arts. Edited by Barbara Büscher and Annette Menting in the DFG research project "Architektur und Raum für die Aufführungskünste", Qucosa/Open-Access-Publication 2020/2021.
• Other venues in places of industrial culture. In the field of tension between emotion and experiment. In: Monument_Emotion - Mobilisation. Binding. Seduction. Volume on the annual conference of the AKTLD 2020, Bamberg 2021, pp. 128-135.
• Moving Architectures - Architecture and Movement. Edited by Barbara Büscher and Annette Menting in the DFG research project "Architektur und Raum für die Aufführungskünste", online journal MAP#10 media - archive - performance, www.perfomap.de 2019.
• Modern Saxony. Experimental design in the Bauhaus tradition. Edited by Annette Menting and Walter Prigge for the Saxon Academy of Arts and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. Leipzig: Spector books 2019
• Participation and urban intervention. Dimensions, conversations, projects. Edited with Walter Prigge, Ronald Scherzer-Heidenberger, Andreas Thiesen. Leipzig: edition kultur druck 2016.
• Reclam city guide. Leipzig architecture and art, Stuttgart: Reclam 2015
• New beginnings and continuities in Leipzig around 1989 - contributions by Dietmar Fischer on architecture and urban design. In: Horsch, Pataki, Pöpper, Art and Architecture in Central Germany, Leipzig 2012
• schulz & schulz architecture, Sulgen-Zurich: Verlag Niggli 2011
• Bowling together! Bowlingtreff Leipzig - A temporary venue, Leipzig: poetenladen 2007
• Shrinking Industry - On the Situation of Industrial Monuments in Lower Lusatia, In: Shrinking Towns and Villages, Dresden: AKTLD 2007
• In the sign of the rise to a cloth town - buildings for Finsterwalde by Max Taut, In: Horizonte. Kulturlandschaft Brandenburg, Potsdam 2006.
• Swinging Fifties on Wilhelminian Foundations, In: 50 Jahre Konzertsaal der Universität der Künste, Berlin: UdK 2004.
• Max Taut - The Complete Works, Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 2003

• Paul Baumgarten - Schaffen aus dem Charakter der Zeit, Die Bauwerke und Kunstdenkmäler von Berlin, Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag 1998.

  Further essays in anthologies and specialist journals on topics of modern architectural history and criticism, monument preservation and building culture(list of publications)