andres lepik curriculum vitae - Sociedad Colombiana de Arquitectos

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ANDRES LEPIK
CURRICULUM VITAE
July 2007 - Present Curator, Architecture and Design Department, The
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Jul 2004 – July 2007 Chief Curator, Architectural Collection 20. / 21 Century
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
2000 - 2004 Head, Publications and Professional Development
Directorate-General, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
1998 - 2000: Research assistant and delegate to the Director
General
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
1996 - 1998: Curator „Das XX. Jahrhundert. Ein Jahrhundert Kunst
in Deutschland“ Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
1994 - 1996 Curatorial Internship Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Since 1992 Freelance Contributor Neue Zürcher Zeitung
(Switzerland)
1990 -1991 Editor
PR Agentur Giel und Partner, Frankfurt/Main
1990 Ph.D. University of Augsburg (Germany)
„The Renaissance Architectural Model: 1353-1500“
1987-1990 Dissertation Fellowship at the Bibliotheca Hertziana,
Max-Planck-Institut (Rome, Italy)
1987 M.A. University of Augsburg
1981 – 1987 University of Augsburg, Augsburg (Germany)
Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich (Germany)

Exhibitions
08.04.09 – Ongoing In Situ: Architecture and Landscape (Rotation of
Architecture and Design Collection at MoMA)
23.07.08 – 02.03.09 Dreamland: Architectural Experiments Since the
1970s. (Rotation of Architecture Collection at MoMA)
10. 05.07 - 01.07.07 Reflect. Building in the Digital Media City, Seoul,
Korea. Barkow/Leibinger Architekten. Kulturforum
Berlin
26.10.06 - 07.01.07 O. M. Ungers. Cosmos of Architecture.
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. (Curator and managerial
head. Editor of exhibition catalogue)
07.06.06 - 07.10.06 Berlin – Tokyo/Tokyo – Berlin. The art of two cities.
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (Curator for architectural
department and for exhibition architecture by Toyo Ito)
11.05.06 - 30.06.06 Inventioneering architecture. Switzerland.
Kulturforum Berlin (Managerial head for installation of
exhibition organised by Faculty of Architecture ETH
Zurich)
29.09.05 - 05.11.05 Jürgen Mayer H.: Metropol/Parasol, Plaza de la
Encarnación in Sevilla, Kulturforum Berlin (Curator
and managerial head; fundraising, exhibition catalog)
2005 Jan Kleihues und Klaus Schuwerk: Museo dell’
Industria e del lavoro „Eugenio Battisti“ Brescia
Kulturforum (Curator and managerial head)
2004/2005 Mailand und Lombardei. Architekturen der Zukunft,
Kulturforum (Managerial head for installation of
exhibition organised by the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris)
2004 Kulturforum, Kulturforum (Curator and managerial
head in collaboration with the Federal Office for
Building and Regional Planning und the University of
the Arts, Berlin)
2003/2004 Content / Rem Koolhaas und OMA/AMO,
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (Curator and managerial
head)
2003 Josef Paul Kleihues, Stadt – Bau – Kunst,
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart Berlin
(Curator and managerial head in collaboration with P.
Kahlfeldt and A. Schätzke)
2002 Rethinking: Space, time & architecture
Events at c. 50 galleries throughout Berlin on the
occasion of the UIA Congress. (Conception, budget,
and catalog in collaboration with St. Lehmann)
2001/2002 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Die Berliner Jahre 1907-
1938, Altes Museum (Managerial head for installation
of exhibition organised by the Museum of Modern Art,
New York: Mies in Berlin)
2000 Renzo Piano: Architekturen des Lebens, Neue
Nationalgalerie Berlin. (Curator and managerial head)

Publications
I. Books
1999/2000 Das XX. Jahrhundert. Ein Jahrhundert Kunst in
Deutschland, Neue Nationalgalerie
(Curator and managerial head of the section
„Architecture“ in collaboration with A. Schmedding)
1998/1999 Masterplan Museumsinsel, Neues Museum Berlin
(Curator and managerial head in collaboration with the
Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning)
1995/1996 Architekturmodelle der Renaissance,
Altes Museum (Managerial head for exhibition venue in
Berlin. Tour organised by the Palazzo Grassi, Venice)
SKYSCRAPERS, Munich: Prestel, 2008 (3rd., revised Edition, engl.).
Reflect. Barkow Leibinger Architects.
Building in the Digital Media City, Seoul, Korea. Ostfildern 2007 (ed.)
O. M. Ungers. Cosmos of architecture.
Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2006 (ed.)
Raimund Abraham: Austrian Cultural Institute in New York
Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2006 (in print)
Metropol Parasol. Redesigning of Plaza de la Encarnación in Sevilla.
Berlin: Staatliche Museen, 2005 (ed.)
Architektur in Berlin. Das XX. Jahrhundert, Cologne: DuMont, 2005
(Reedition, edited with A. Schmedding).
SKYSCRAPERS, Munich: Prestel, 2004 (engl.).
(German edition: Wolkenkratzer, Munich: Prestel 2005).
Josef Paul Kleihues, Stadt-Bau-Kunst,
(edited with P. Kahlfeldt and A. Schätzke), Berlin: Nicolai, 2003.
Nr. 109. Franka Hörnschemeyer (Werkraum 12)
Berlin: Staatliche Museen, 2002 (ed.)
Masterplan Museumsinsel - Ein europäisches Projekt
Berlin: Staatliche Museen, 2000 (ed.)
Renzo Piano - Architekturen des Lebens
Stuttgart-Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2000 (ed.)
Das XX. Jahrhundert. Ein Jahrhundert Kunst in Deutschland.
Architektur in Berlin, Cologne: DuMont, 1999 (edited with A. Schmedding).
Der Herr der Bauten
Festschrift Wolf-Dieter Dube, Berlin: Nicolai, 1999 (edited with G. Schauerte).
Neue Nationalgalerie, Dreissig Jahre.
Berlin 1998 (edited with Paul Kahlfeldt. Reprint: 2001).
Das Architekturmodell in Italien: 1353-1500, Römische Forschungen der
Bibliotheca Hertziana. Worms: Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1994.

II. Selected Articles
Villa Nurbs, in Villa Nurbs, Ceramica i Arquitectura, Barcelona 2009, p. 30-37
Reduction of Means Deployed: On the Photographs of Friederike von Rauch,
in: Friederike von Rauch Sites, Hg. Andres Lepik, Ostfildern 2007, S. 8-10
Mehr als mehr. Rem Koolhaas and his exhibition „Content“ in Neue
Nationalgalerie, Berlin. In: Der Architekt, 7-88, 2006
Eine geistige Akropolis. Die Museumsprojekte. in: O.M. Ungers, Kosmos der
Architektur, Ostfildern 2006, S. 82-95
“The Museum Island, Berlin” Museums in the 21 st Century, Concepts
Projects Buildings, Munich 2006, pp. 144-157.
“Searching for the limits: The Building Type Skyscraper at the Beginning of
21 st Century,” A & U, October 2005, pp.16-25.
„In kluger Balance: Hafengebäude Rohner.“ Baumschlager/Eberle. Hafengebäude
Rohner, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz: 2005, pp. 22-27.
„Sammeln, Bewahren, Ausstellen. Die Museumsprojekte. Josef Paul
Kleihues.“ Stadt-Bau-Kunst, Berlin: Nicolai, 2003, pp. 43-54.
„Neue Nationalgalerie,“ Die Nationalgalerie, Ed. Peter-Klaus Schuster,
Cologne: DuMont, 2001, pp. 64-69.
„Die Berliner Museumsinsel,“ Weltkulturerbe in Deutschland, Cologne:
DuMont 2001, pp. 394-405 (Reprint Cologne 2003).
“Mies van der Rohe and Photomontage,” Mies van der Rohe 1907-1938, Exh.
Cat. Museum of Modern Art. New York 2001, pp. 324-329.
„Die Zurückführung der Kunst ins Leben. Karl Ernst Osthaus und das
Museum Folkwang,“ Manet bis van Gogh, Hugo von Tschudi und der Kampf
um die Moderne. Exh. Cat. Berlin, 1996, pp. 302-306.
„Das Kunstmuseum,“ Der Kulturbetrieb, Dreißig Annäherungen, Ed. A.
Breitenstein, Frankfurt a.M. : Suhrkamp, 1996, pp. 141-145.
„Das Architekturmodell der frühen Renaissance. Die Erfindung eines
Mediums,“ Architekturmodelle der Renaissance. München 1995, pp. 12-20.
„Verlust der Mitte? George Grosz und die Moderne,“ George Grosz: Berlin –
New York. Exh. Cat. Berlin: Nicolai 1994, pp. 202-210.
„U-Bahn-Station, Bergen Enkheim (Architekt Christoph Mäckler),“ DAM
Architektur Jahrbuch 1993, pp. 122-125.
„Schwerelos. Zum Sport- und Freizeitzentrum in Frankfurt am Main/Kalbach,“
Bauwelt 1992/37, pp. 2126-28.
„Docklands für Frankfurt am Main,“ Bauwelt 26, 1992, pp. 1508-1510.
„Die Architekturmodelle,“ Elias Holl und das Augsburger Rathaus, Exh. Cat.,
Regensburg 1985, pp. 325-333.
„Das Geometrie und Messbuch von Elias Holl (with Hanno-Walter Kruft),“
architectura, 1985, pp. 1-12.
III. Newspaper Reviews and Articles
03.01.07 Hier wird die Kunst zur Nebensache. (New ICA by
Diller&Scofidio + Renfro in Boston) Die WELT
15.03.06 „Grösser aber besser“ (Hearst Tower, New York by Norman
Foster) DIE WELT

27.04.05 „Einsame Musiker.“ (review of Rem Koolhaas’ Casa da Música
in Porto. Die Welt (Germany)
Since 1990 c. 200 articles concerning art and architecture in the
„Neue Zürcher Zeitung“ (Switzerland)
Select Conferences, Presentations, Reviews, Colloquia (since 2002)
Oct. 22, 09 „I can’t find Potsdamer Platz“ The architecture of Berlin after
the Wall“. At conference Transformations of German Cultural
Identity since 1989, UCD Humanities Insititute, Dublin
Dec. 6, 08 Seminar review at MIT, Boston, Architecture School, Prof. Finn
Geipel
Dec. 3, 08 Seminar review Columbia University, Prof. Thomas Leeser
Nov. 18, 08 Head of Jury: Departure – focus architecture, Vienna, Austria
Oct. 30, 08 „The Architecture of MoMA“ Lecture at Architecture Museum
and Architecture School, Oslo
17./18.09.08 Jury Member, AIA Awards, Dallas, Texas
June 13, 08 Jury member for R+D Awards, Architect Magazine,
Washington, D.C.
May 13, 08 Seminar review Cooper Union School of Architecture, Prof.
Stephen Rustow
March 6, 08 Seminar review Yale School of Architecture, Prof. Richard
Meier (midterm review)
01.08.-12.09 “What is Green Architecture” lecture series with Goethe-
Institute, New York (Concept and moderation, Architects and
Engineers: Juergen Mayer H., Matthias Schuller, Christoph
Ingenhoven, Matthias Sauerbruch, Steffen Lehmann, Friedrich
von Borries, Stefan Behnisch, Albert Speer, Joyce van den
Berg)
Nov. 11, 07 Terrain Vagues – Creative Milieus. Moderation of panel
discussion at Symposium “New York-Berlin Dialogues” in
Center for Architecture, New York
12. 10. 2006 “Detlef Schreiber – Ein Münchner Architekt 1930-2003“
(Lecture at Bayerische Architektenkammer, Munich)
05. 09. 2006 Tempo 2006, (Guest critic at workshop with Prof. Riken
Yamamoto, Tokyo and Prof. Finn Geipel, Berlin.
04. 09. 2006 “EIne geistige Akropolis. Die Museumsprojekte von O. M.
Ungers“ (Colloquium: „Das Haus im Haus. Zur
Wirkungsgeschichte einer Entwurfsidee“ in: Deutsches
Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt)
21. 06. 2006 „Architektur ausstellen“ (Opening speech for „1 2 3 4. – the
architecture of Sauerbruch Hutton, Munich, Pinakothek der
Moderne)
17.03. 2006 “La Nueva Arquitectura Espanola. New architecture in Spain”
(Moderator for Insituto Cervantes, Berlin)
28. 04. 2005 „Displaying Architecture or: Architectural Exhibitions in Mies’
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.“ (Speaker at a colloquium
organised by the Mies van der Rohe Foundation und the
Elisava Design School, Barcelona)
17.12. 2004 „Museumsinsel Berlin“ (Seminar critic at the Harvard Design
School, Prof. Thomas Müller)
21.10. 2004 „Mies und Gropius: Berlin – Weimar – Amerika. Stationen einer
Beziehung.“ (Lecture at the Kunstfest Weimar)
15. 01. 2004 „Städtebau in Holland und Deutschland.“ (Moderator, Event in
collaboration with the Federal Agency for Civic Education,
Bonn).

Academic Positions
29. 06. 2002 „Berliner Plätze in ihrer Geschichte und Zukunft.“ (Lecture and
tour for the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst, Cologne).
14. 02. 2002 „Revolutionierung des Denkens - Zur Selbstdarstellung der
Architektur Mies van der Rohes in Ausstellungen.“ (Lecture at
the Technical University, Berlin).
09. 02. 2002 „Mies und Berlin.“ (Moderation of colloquium at the Academy
of the Arts, Berlin).
Spring 2008: The Bauhaus and its legacy, (Guest professor with Prof.
Bergdoll), Columbia University, New York
Winter Semester 1996/1997 and
Summer Semester 1997: Guest Professor at the Art Historical Institute of the
Humboldt-University, Berlin.
Winter Semester 2003/2004 and
Summer Semester 2006: Guest Professor at the Institute for History and Art
History at the Technical University, Berlin.
Memberships
Since 2008 The Architectural League, New York
2004-2006: Extraordinary Member of the BDA Berlin (Bund Deutscher
Architekten)
Since 1996: Member of International Council of Museums (ICOM)
Languages
Fluency in English (speaking, reading, and writing);
Italian (speaking and reading; competency in writing);
French (competency in reading)