Prof. Dr. Jörg H. Gleiter

Architect and Professor of Aesthetics at the Faculty of Design and Arts at Free University of Bolzano, Italy.

He studied architecture in Berlin, Venedig und New York and worked as an architect in New York, Frankfurt/M. und Berlin.
Since 1995 Jörg Gleiter has taught aesthetics, philosophy of architecture and design theory at various universities.
2002 Ph.D. and 2007 Habilitation at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
In 2003 and 2008 he was Fellow in Residence at the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche in Weimar.
He taught as a visiting professor in Venice (2003), Tokyo (2003-2005), Weimar (2005-2007) and Bolzano (2005-2007).

He is the founder and editor of the book series Philosophische Diskurse (Philosophical Discourse, co-editor G. Schweppenhäuser, Universitätsverlag Weimar) and ArchitekturDenken (Thinking Architecture, Transcript Verlag Bielefeld). Gleiter is the editor of the Magazine Zona.

Research topics:

Aesthetics, philosophy of architecture and design, ornament, critical theory, phenomenology, semiotics and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Selected publications (only books):

• Architektur (Berlin 2008);
• Architekturtheorie heute (Bielefeld 2008);
• Die Realität des Imaginären. Architektur und das digitale Bild (ed. with N. Korrek and G. Zimmermann, Weimar 2008);
• Einfühlung und phänomenologische Reduktion. Grundlagentexte zu Architektur, Design und Kunst (ed. with Thomas Friedrich, Münster 2007);
• Rückkehr des Verdrängten. Zur Kritischen Theorie des Ornaments (Weimar 2003);
• Rückblick auf die Postmoderne (ed. with G. Schweppenhäuser, Weimar 2002);
• Nietzsches Labyrinthe (ed. with G. Schweppenhäuser, Weimar 2001).

Detailed Information

Publications in "Wolkenkuckucksheim – Cloud-Cuckoo-Land – Vozdushnyi zamok":

• From speechact to sketchact - Architecture as a "Technique of the Body" (issue 1/02)
• Reconceptualizing Architectural Space in the Virtual Age (issue 1/04)
• Architectural Theory Today (issue 2/04)
• "Monument of a Crisis" (issue 2/08)
  
  
  

joerg.gleiter[at]unibz.it