Jürgen Mayer
Jürgen Hermann Mayer (born 1965 in Stuttgart) is a German architect and artist. He is the leader of the architecture firm "J. MAYER H." in Berlin and calls himself Jürgen Mayer H.
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Jürgen Mayer

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- Born
- 1965.
- Nationality
- Germany.
- Occupation
- architect, designer and visual artist.
- Known for
- Metropol Parasol, Mestia Airport and Saakashvili Presidential Library.
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Jürgen Hermann Mayer (born 1965 in Stuttgart) is a German architect and artist. He is the leader of the architecture firm "J. MAYER H." in Berlin and calls himself Jürgen Mayer H.
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Jürgen Mayer (born 1965) is an architect, designer and visual artist, of German nationality. The architect was born in Stuttgart. Jürgen Mayer was educated at Cooper Union and Princeton University School of Architecture.
Among the works are Mestia Airport, Metropol Parasol and Saakashvili Presidential Library. Languages used include German.
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Life and work
Life and work
He studied at Stuttgart University, The Cooper Union and Princeton University. Since 1996 he has been working as an architect. Recent national and international projects include Metropol Parasol, the redevelopment of the Plaza de la Encarnación in Seville, Spain; the Court of Justice in Hasselt, Belgium; Pavilion KA300, built in celebration of Karlsruhe's 300th jubilee, and several public and infrastructural projects in Georgia—for example, an airport in Mestia, the border checkpoint in Sarpi, and three rest stops along the highway in Gori and Lochini. His work has been published and exhibited worldwide and is part of numerous collections including Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York and MoMA San Francisco and also private collections. National and international awards include the Mies-van-der-Rohe-Award-Emerging-Architect-Special-Mention-2003, Winner Holcim Award Bronze 2005 and Winner Audi Urban Future Award 2010. He has taught at Princeton University, Harvard University, Berlin University of the Arts, the Technical University of Munich, the Architectural Association in London, the Columbia University, New York City, at the University of Toronto, Canada, and has been a mentor at the international mentorship program Forecast, based in Berlin.
Firm
Firm
J. MAYER H. was founded 1996 in Berlin. Since January 2014, when Andre Santer and Hans Schneider joined as partners in the firm, it has been called J. Mayer H. und Partner, Architekten. It focuses on works at the intersection of architecture, communication, and new technology. From urban planning schemes and buildings, to installation work and objects with new materials, the relationship between the human body, technology, and nature form the background for a new production of space.
Important works (selection)
Important works (selection)
Stadt.haus (Stadthalle Scharnhauser Park, Ostfildern), 2000–2002, exhibited in the Permanent Collection of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York, the Biennial in Venice 2004, Arsenale and the German pavilion Rotor Penthouse, private building, Denmark, 2004–2006 Mensa Moltke, Hochschule Karlsruhe, Germany, 2004–2007 Metropol Parasol, redevelopment of the Plaza de la Encarnacion, Seville, Spain, 2004–2011 ADA1, office building, Hamburg, Germany, 2005–2007 Danfoss Universe, Nordborg, Denmark, 2005–2007 Dupli.Casa, private house, near Ludwigsburg, Germany, 2005–2008 Park Inn Hotel in Kraków, Poland 2007–2009 S11, office building, Hamburg, Germany, 2007–2009. Highway Rest Stop 1 and 2, Gori and Lochini, Georgia, 2009 – 2011. Border Checkpoint, Sarpi, Georgia, 2010–2011 Queen Tamar Airport, Mestia, Georgia, 2010. JOH3, residential building, Johannisstraße 3, Berlin, Germany, 2009–2011 Pier Sculpture, Lazika, Georgia, 2012 Court of Justice, Hasselt Belgium, in cooperation with a2o-architecten and Lensºass architecten, 2005–13 Schaustelle, space for experiments, Munich, Germany, 2012–2013 Sonnenhof, office and residential buildings, Jena, Germany, 2008–2014 FOM, Düsseldorf, University building, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2012–2015 Pavilion KA300, pavilion for the city jubilee, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2014–2015 XXX Times Square With Love, installation in New York's Times Square, 2016 IGZ Main Campus Building in Falkenburg, 2020
Exhibitions (selection)
Exhibitions (selection)
Vitra Design Museum, 2007: Housewarming MyHome San Francisco, Museum, 2009: Patterns of Speculation La Biennale di Venezia, Italian pavilion, 2009: Pre.Text / Vor.Wand Global Design, Museum für Gestaltung, 2010: Pre.Text / Vor.Wand Showroom Euroboden, Munich, 2010: Re.Flecks Berlinische Galerie, 2011: RAPPORT. Experimentelle Raumstrukturen Art Institute of Chicago, 2012: Wirrwarr Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin 2013: Black.See Lugadero, 2014: Retraro Robot Istanbul Design Biennial, 2014: NAP GAP Shenzhen Bi-City Biennial of Urbanism/Architecture, 2014: Border Warehouse InCITE Gallery, Bangalore, 2015: the work of J. Mayer H. Beijing Design Week, 2014: Exhibition Design+ Istanbul Biennale Exhibition, 2015: FIN-GER Ecola exhibition, 2015: Hands-on
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1965
Jürgen Mayer born at Stuttgart.
Film
Jürgen Mayer H. Der Architekt der Kurven. (Alternativtitel: J. Mayer H. – Architektur als Abenteuer.) documentary film, Germany, 2011, 26 min., book and direction: Claudius Gehr, production: planetfilm, NDR, arte, first broadcast: 16 December 2012 by arte.
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- “Jürgen Mayer”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q85218: Jürgen Mayer
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Awards (selection)
Mies-van-der-Rohe Award for emerging architects, 2003 Holcim Award Bronze for the European region, 2005 Audi Urban Future Award, 2010 red dot design award, 2012, for Metropol Parasol Finalist European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, 2013 for Metropol Parasol
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Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Jürgen Mayer H. - Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction. www.holcimfoundation.org.
- 2.Jürgen Mayer H. | MoMA.
- 3.TUM Jurgen Mayer H. lecture.
- 4.Jürgen Mayer H. – Forecast.
- 5.Hotel Park Inn Kraków już otwarty. Budowle.pl.
- 6.Sarpi Border Checkpoint by J. Mayer H Architects. auf: detail-online.com, 16. November 2011.
- 7.WALKER, AMEENA. Times Square nods to racy past with X-shaped loungers. Curbed. 24 August 2016.
- 8.J. Mayer H.
- 9.Metropol Parasol – red dot award: product design, 2012 – red dot: best of the best auf: red-dot.org, 7. Juli 2012.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 10
- Architekturforum Aedes|Aedes Galerie und Architekturforum (ed.), Kristin Feireiss, Hans-Jürgen Commerell: J. Mayer H., surphase architecture. (exhibition catalogue). Aedes, Berlin 2002.
- Cristina Steingräber (ed.): metropol parasol, Staatliche Museen Berlin 2005,
- Henry Urbach (ed.): J. Mayer H., Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008,
- Neeraj Bhatia, Jürgen Mayer H. (ed.): arium, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009,
- Suh Kyong won (ed.): DD 19 Activators. DAMDI Architecture Publisher, Ostfildern 2011,
- Berlinische Galerie (ed.): Rapport, 2011
- Andres Lepik, Andre Santer (ed.): metropol parasol, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011,
- J. Mayer H., Cristina Steingräber (ed.): Wirrwarr, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011,
- J. Mayer H. (ed.): A.WAY, Trademark Publishing 2011, .
- Wilko Hoffmann (ed.): Could Should Would, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2015,
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