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Martin Schmitt holds the substitute professorship for the department of construction planning in the summer semester 2018.
Martin Schmitt was born in Hunsrück in 1971 and completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter there. From 1992 to 1999, he studied interior design in Mainz and London and earned a master's degree in architecture from the Pratt Institute in New York in 2001. He also gained his first teaching experience at the Pratt Institute as a visiting professor from 2001-2002. After working at Mainz University of Applied Sciences as a lecturer and substitute professor for Introduction to Design from 2002 to 2006, he was then a research assistant at the Chair of Building Construction and Design of Prof. Regine Leibinger at the TU Berlin until 2011. His office Martin Schmitt Architektur / Kommunikation im Raum, founded in 2002, works on projects in the spectrum of architecture, interior design and corporate design. Since the office was founded, many projects have been created, such as the expansion of a law office in a former brewery in Pfefferberg Berlin (2006), the École Voltaire canteen in Berlin (2014) or the conversion of the boardroom in the Axel Springer high-rise in Berlin (2015).
Teaching concept
The relationship between human-space-object, as well as investigations of spatial typologies and structures form the thematic context in designing and constructing. Methods of perception and description are taught as a basis for design. Students are guided to derive their own positions, strategies and design tools from the analysis and recognition of existing contexts and to continually refine them. The working method results from architectural-artistic questions and is conceptually and experimentally oriented.
Design teaching should awaken a passion for the subject. On the one hand, it must convey solid fundamentals and, at the same time, constantly question rigid rules and automatisms through experimentation and research.
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